Ireland's first floating hotel and restaurant is being planned for the city centre quays in Cork.

ENDURING intense pain and suffering because of an auto-immune disease that affects the central nervous system, Marie Curran asks: “If I want to die, why won’t you let me do so with dignity? Instead I must suffer a debilitating pain and degrading death.”

AT the end of a beautiful West Cork peninsula, a simple plaque marks the site of a former industrial school that housed inmates known locally as ‘blue legs.’

The 79-year-old widow Nancy Smyth was strangled in her home in 1987.

Joan Mitchell was always fascinated by the Titanic — and was stunned to discover her family had a relative on board