“There is an outpouring of love and helplessness,” said Mourneabbey-born Fr Seán Corkery as he tried to sum up the feelings of a small tight-knit community experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions as news filtered back from Glasgow that police had officially identified Karen Buckley’s body.

Elderly people living in Co Cork will get a chance to have a say on their greater inclusion in society.

Ambitious urban renewal plans for the historic core of a North Cork town have been unveiled.

MEETINGS are being held this week for parents of prospective pupils at three planned primary schools in Cork by a multi-denominational group which hopes to open them.

FANCY a bargain?

FARM and business groups are conducting a feasibility study into a €400m twin-track sugar and ethanol plant, with the midlands as the most likely location.

AN executor’s sale of prime land in a superb location in north Cork should be the most talked-about deal of the autumn.

LIFETIME achievement awards were yesterday presented to three people described as icons of tourism development in the Blackwater Valley.

AN investor willing to spend up to €95 million will have to be found within the next 12 months if the former Mallow sugar factory is to have a future as a biofuel manufacturer, it was warned yesterday.

GARDAÍ are now certain that a mother and her two grown-up children drowned in a north Cork river last Sunday, and not on Monday as first thought.

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

THE impact of the radical changes in EU beef policy on farmers will be top of the agenda at seven special regional beef meetings being run by Teagasc and Bord Bia between October 26 and November 3.