Scaredy-cats of all ages are in for a frightfully good time over the next few days as Monday’s bank holiday, the mid-term break and Halloween merge into a week-long October horror-fest.

A minibus driver who was taking a group of counsellors on a day-trip mounted the kerb, nearly reversed into another bus, and then drove through a red light.

A COUNSELLING centre in Cork has confirmed that a priest, against whom seven allegations of sexual abuse have been lodged, worked as a volunteer with them in the early 1990s.

Eight million euro has been donated by the American Ireland Fund to over 300 charities and community organisations throughout the country.