A stately home in North Cork can play an important part in the region’s socio-economic future.

THE Office of Public Works (OPW) is set to carry out €500,000 of restoration work on a park in north Cork in a bid to increase visitor numbers to 300,000 per year within the next five years.

A TOWN steeped in heritage aims to become the country’s antiques capital.

A €10 MILLION plan to turn a stately mansion and its extensive grounds into a major tourist attraction rivalling the Rock of Cashel and Muckross House is to be discussed next month by Fáilte Ireland and the Office of Public Works (OPW).

MORE than 200 elderly and infirm people, most of whom don’t have their own transport, will have to travel nearly five miles to see a doctor after the HSE withdrew the service of a locum from a Co Cork town.