Tributes have been paid following the death of Joe Kavanagh, one of the oldest people in Ireland, aged 105.

What once was a ‘mess,’ now is both a tidy and a healthy investment.

It comes with the kind of mod-cons most would associate more with a family home than a community nursing unit, but then innovation is the byword for Cork’s newest residential care facility.

The Health Minister James Reilly has confirmed that a contingency plan has now been put in place to deal with the mass exodus of public servants from the health sector at the end of this month.