Tears and accusations of insanity gave an emotional edge to some of the many presentations on day nine of the oral hearing into proposals by Indaver Ireland to build an incinerator on the Ringaskiddy peninsula.

Tourism officials in Cobh, Co Cork, are planning to erect a life-size sculpture of local athlete and Olympic silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan.

A MEMORIAL garden featuring a large glass wall with all the names of those who boarded the Titanic on her ill-fated journey across the Atlantic is to be built in Cobh to mark the centenary of her sinking.