A TRANSPORT agency has identified Cork as the perfect location for the roll out of a hugely successful European-style bike rental scheme.

PROFITS at Irish food company Greencore were hit by a fall in the value of sterling, but the company remains on track to expand in the US.

A CALL was made yesterday for more Government support for anti-drugs programmes, as a major awareness initiative got underway in Cork.

FORMER trade union boss Peter Cassells yesterday recommended that Dublin Airport make a contribution of €10 million to Cork for pensions and other funding requirements in the separation of the two airports.

FORMER health minister Micheál Martin was challenged last night to find an alternative site for one of the state’s first co-located hospitals.

LAWYERS were last night preparing the first of many legal cases against health boards after the Government admitted it knew for two years that nursing home charges to medical card holders may have been illegal.

A STATE inquiry into how dead people’s organs were retained by hospitals without consent is likely to drag on for years, it was claimed yesterday.

The Dail was suspended for almost 35 minutes this afternoon, after Cork Fine Gael TD Bernard Allen refused to leave the chamber.

FAMILIES of three Irish men facing trial in Colombia have appealed to the international community to send independent observers amid fears they will not receive a fair hearing.