An elderly woman has died in a house fire in Co Cork.

TWO valuable boats were destroyed and hundreds were saved after fire ripped through part of one of the country’s biggest boat yards at the weekend.

THE gravity of the spillage of 60,000 gallons of 14pH caustic soda into Monkstown Bay in Cork three hours before high water around midnight on Saturday July 2/Sunday July 3 appears to have escaped the notice of the ADM company and in particular the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), under whose remit the overall responsibility for pollution in the harbour area and waters rests.