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A Cork medical school dropout who sent threatening letters to 10 of his past supervisors and tutors at the Royal College of Surgeons has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

A hotel which had to close following extensive flooding five years ago will reopen today following an almost €5m investment.

THE amount of water discharged from the Inniscarra Dam west of Cork city in the hours preceding last months devastating floods was almost twice the amount the ESB gave in its final warning to the city council, it was revealed last night.