Just hours before pledging support for his successor, the Bishop Emeritus of Cork and Ross was visiting the sick in Cork University Hospital, supporting, among others, a man from West Cork who had lost several fingers in a horrific lawnmower accident.

An 80-year-old man jailed for indecently assaulting a 10-year-old boy, often multiple times a day, until he was 15, has had the final 12 months of his four-year prison sentence suspended following a successful appeal.

THE man at the centre of a suspected illegal dumping probe in Cork has applied for a waste collection permit.