A homeless man has died in Tullamore, and locals in the Co Offaly town are planning to play tribute to him at an event tonight.

Three members of a well- known Cork political family — one of whom is currently serving a jail sentence — were among 126 mortgage holders against whom lenders sought repossession orders at a sometimes noisy Limerick County Registrar’s court yesterday.

Even by its usually busy standards Cork’s courthouse on Washington Street saw an increased footfall yesterday, as the usual traffic of legal eagles negotiated its way through a congregation of protestors who took up residence on the court’s limestone steps for the morning.