Work on a €2.5m interpretive centre in the middle of Cork Harbour could get under way as early as September and be completed in time for the start of the 2016 tourist season.

The ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, has criticised the continuing exclusion of the oversight of prisons and immigration issues from the remit of her office.

Two Donegal landowners have been interviewed regarding possible water pollution and illegal waste disposal at a lake where 33 swans were found dead in the past week.