Gardaí intercepted and detained an escaped British sex offender as he was about to board a plane to Hungary yesterday morning.

THE director of the Cork Rape Crisis Centre has called on convicted sex offenders to be “named and shamed” in local communities, as fear grows in Cork about the return to the city of a known killer and attempted rapist.

Unlucky for some, Dublin has slipped to number 13 in a ranking of the world’s most expensive cities to live in, it was revealed today.