APARTHOTEL use is mooted for a Cork bar and entertainment complex, just put up for sale and with almost 200 years of trading history in the heart of the city centre.

A popular Cork City bar has closed with the loss of up to 30 full and part-time jobs.

Classy hurdler Melodic Rendezvous will face just three rivals when he makes his eagerly awaited debut over fences at Bangor today.