A CORK city house that has been a life-saving, holistic home-from-home for many hundreds of persons given cancer diagnoses now looks set to return to private, family accommodation and ‘domestic service’ once more.

A bequest of almost €1m from an anonymous donor was not enough to prevent aid agency Trócaire sliding into the red last year.

THE treatment of a Cork toddler undergoing lifesaving chemotherapy for a rare brain tumour in New York could be jeopardised if her family’s living expenses are not met and they become a financial burden on the US.

The Fine Gael chairman of the party trustees has resigned in the wake of the controversy over the attempted corporate donation of $50,000 by Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor to the party.