Thieves targeted the home of a pensioner just hours after gardaí recovered more than €100,000 of his life savings which had been stolen the day before.

An elderly man suffered a “café coronary” after choking on a piece of meat during a meal at a Cork hotel, an inquest heard yesterday.

A NUMBER of Cork city’s major hotels and guesthouses had to close or turn customers away as a result of last week’s floods.

JERRY Henchy’s removal first as boss of Dairygold in January 2009 and then as chief executive of Reox yesterday points to a deep crisis within the overall group.

GARDAÍ are confident they will be able to prosecute a self-styled events manager, who allegedly owes more than €200,000, following a debacle over organising school debs.

FRAUD Squad detectives are expected to re-interview, within the next two weeks, the man at the centre of the debacle over the Cork schools’ debs functions.

THE red carpet was rolled out last night for the first of thousands of teenagers caught up in the €200,000 debs ball debacle.

THE man at the centre of the debs ball garda inquiry may owe in excess of €300,000, and today marks the contract deadline for him to pay €80,000 to the Silver Springs Moran Hotel.

COMPARISONS don’t get much more inviting than the chance to weigh up the attractions of over 2,000 new houses up for sale.

A major business linkage event for business owners in the Republic of Ireland to meet with Northern Ireland counterparts takes place next Tuesday in Cork.

THE biggest sum ever paid for an Irish pub, €8.1 million, changed hands at an auction in Dublin yesterday when The Playwright Inn in Blackrock came under the hammer.