A marine biologist with a passion for scuba diving is going deep with a new venture which aims to unlock the underwater tourism potential of Cork Harbour.

Post mortems will be held today for a mother and her young daughter whose bodies were recovered from a heavily-flooded Cork river.

THE residents of a rural idyll near Bantry, County Cork, were last night struggling to come to terms with the horrific drowning yesterday of a mother in her thirties and her three-year-old daughter.

A MOTHER and her young daughter were drowned yesterday when their jeep was washed off a bridge into a flooded river at the entrance to their west Cork farm as they were returning home from a children’s party.

The search for a mother and her young daughter ended tonight when their bodies were discovered one mile from where their car plunged into a heavily flooded Cork river.