Tributes have been paid to a woman who tragically lost her life in a collision involving a truck on Smith Street in Cork city centre yesterday.

When it comes to the pub trade, the ‘real capital’ is clearly elbowing its way to the counter in the nation’s capital.

An article published in this newspaper in 2007 outlined how Benny McCabe was “no fastidious accountant, with his eye fixed firmly on the bottom line. For McCabe, pubs are a way of life.”