The stable door is being left open in terms of diplomacy for a North Cork town to get one of history’s most famous equines back home.

A British museum has said it will deal “sensitively” with calls to permanently repatriate the skeleton of Napoleon’s famous white horse to a Cork town.

Illegal cigarettes, either counterfeit or contraband, are as easily available in rural areas of Cork as they are in the city.

Work on three drainage projects in Cork cost twice the original estimate, leaving the county council heavily in debt.