THOUGH it’s nearly 40 years since Ireland’s anti-nuclear movement held a festival at Carnsore Point in Wexford — Ireland’s Woodstock, social historians assure us — to protest at plans to build a nuclear power plant there, we still import around 90% of our energy needs. 

An Post officials were heckled last night as they closed for the last time a post office which has served a Cork community for a century.

Uninsured business-owners in Cork are appealing for help this morning following widespread flooding in the county yesterday.