Sonas, a landmark development on the junction of Vicar’s Road and Ardmanning Avenue in Cork city, is a contemporary gated scheme of townhouses and apartments with a rent roll of almost €120,000 per annum.

Men are being urged to be checked for prostate cancer.

MORE than 1,000 people attended the funeral of MEP Brian Crowley’s brother, Flor, yesterday including Taoiseach Brian Cowen and former taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

PATIENTS given an anaesthetic at the Bon Secours hospital in Cork are being charged additional fees by consultants on top of their private health insurance fees.

A REMARKABLE Limerick grandmother has graduated with a BA Honours degree having fought breast cancer which necessitated a mastectomy in the middle of her studies.

IN the first three months of this year I was a patient at the Bons Secours hospital in Cork.

SENAN O’REILLY was the first of six babies born in Erinville and St Finbarr’s maternity hospitals in Cork on Christmas Day.

THE chief executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) said yesterday he expected up to 1,800 out-patients to be treated under the scheme in Cork and Kerry this year.

A FUND was launched yesterday to help the parents of a 10-month-old baby who is waiting for a life-saving operation.

MAEVE MAGUIRE and her husband Niall got a surprise gift on Christmas Day - their first child

CONSULTANT obstetricians say they will be forced to give up their practice if the row between the State and a British firm over insurance cover continues.

MOTHER-of-three Lilly Wallace, 52, had to leave her home and family for six terrifying weeks to get radium treatment for colon cancer.

The parents of a 14-year-old severely disabled boy, who failed to win an action alleging medical negligence against a Cork hospital, have been hit with a bill for £3m.