Lots of boxes are ticked at 40 Sandymount Avenue, in Cork’s Glasheen, so a new owner can just move in and start their own personal tweaks, as they see fit.

Vita Cortex workers are not entitled to get any kind of “top-up” from the company which employed them on statutory redundancy paid by the Government, the Department of Social Protection has said.

The father of a three-year-old boy, set to undergo pioneering “bionic ear” surgery to cure deafness, has been overwhelmed by the generosity of Vita Cortex workers who diverted cash raised for them to the child’s fund.

A SPECIAL fundraiser is being planned to help a young mother who lost her two sons in a house fire rebuild her life.