Jonathan Burke has been appointed first jockey to one of the biggest owners of National Hunt horses in this country, Alan and Ann Potts, replacing Andrew Lynch.

Up to 10 youths who scaled scaffolding surrounding an east Cork monument at the weekend may be prosecuted by a specialist construction company.

The young son of a Coast Guard volunteer tragically killed last March became the first civilian to board the new €35m search and rescue helicopter launched in Goleen on Saturday.

LAST week’s feature on the Castlelake scheme at Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, referred to the Cascade scheme of apartments.

PRESIDENT Levy Mwanawasa, a trenchant critic of Robert Mugabe who won praise for his handling of Zambia’s inflation-prone economy, died yesterday in hospital in France aged 59.