Cork City Council has approved the use of a former hospital as a third-level college.

Progressive Commercial Construction’s application for a major office development on Cork’s Albert Quay has been withdrawn.

The little boy who died after falling into an East Cork river will be removed from his grandparents’ home for burial today.

As locals left flowers at the scene where efforts were made to revive James Casey Butler on Saturday, there was an eerie silence around the Tír Cluain housing estate yesterday afternoon.