Completion dates on approved upgrade works on five community hospitals across West Cork have been pushed out by up to three years, it has emerged.

The Health and Information Quality Authority has raised concerns over the safety, staffing, and management of medication at a number of nursing homes.

FILM TIPS: There’s no doubt which film will be filling the cinemas this weekend, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 already attracting huge crowds since its opening yesterday. Away from the big cinemas, Triskel Christchurch in Cork has Nightcrawler from Sunday, and Irish film Out of Here.

HIS devotion to his wife and family was remembered yesterday at the funeral Mass of the late George Crosbie, the former chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, who died last Friday at the age of 83.