MEMBERS of any of Cork’s eight libraries can access millions of books and other resources in the other facilities in the city and county under the first scheme of its kind in the country.

CORK’S city councillors did a U-turn last night and postponed the closure of one of the city’s oldest public libraries.

LIKELY agreement on a new consultants’ contract after almost five years of talks is a tribute to the painstaking negotiating skills of independent chairman and barrister Mark Connaughton, who is tipped to be a judge soon.

BURGLING barristers have been warned to stop stealing books from the Law Library or face increased membership fees.

A rare collection of Dracula-related books is to be handed over to Dublin City Library, it emerged today.

Priceless family treasures belonging to William Butler Yeats will be handed over to the National Library of Ireland tomorrow for its first major exhibition on the Nobel prize-winning poet.