Construction of a €3.44m community hospital has been completed — but locals have to raise funds to build a dayroom for the facility.

I’VE decided how I will vote in the Labour leadership elections. All these years a rank-and-file member, and now I have a say in who should lead my party.

A €30k phototherapy machine, paid for by voluntary fundraising efforts, was installed in 2010 in Bantry hospital, but has not been used to treat psoriasis since last August.

British life insurer Friends Provident could be put up for sale after a wholesale review of the business, it was reported today.