FORMER staff at what was the country’s newest private hospital have been told there is no money to pay their wages and they could also face difficulties claiming unemployment benefit because of a lockdown of the Cork Medical Centre (CMC) where their P45s are on file.

THE developers of a new €90 million private hospital in Cork have signed an €8.5 million deal to equip it with the world’s most advanced diagnostic machines.

TWO Irish alternative energy companies are to be involved in developing half of the energy capacity in the latest round of a £100 billion (€111bn) wind farm project in Britain, tipped to be the world’s largest energy infrastructure programme.