I was always a townie but I think by now I have to admit to being a city boy despite growing up in the midlands. What makes the city such an appealing concept for me is the mix of cultures rubbing off each other.

A Cork-based voluntary housing association has issued an urgent appeal to companies for help in preventing seven families from being evicted.

MEMBERS of a voluntary housing organisation have expressed “dismay” and “disquiet” at a decision by county councillors to halt their plans to build more than 20 homes.