“It is important to recognise the positive effects that institutional investment can have,” according to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, who fails to see any downside to international corporations buying swathes of property in the country.

When Cork’s status in the hurling world is debated in bars and online chatrooms, the fall of traditional city powerhouses is cited as a contributory factor in the decline of the county side.

BISHOP John Buckley has warned that a shortage of priests will soon mean that parishes in the Diocese of Cork and Ross will have to “share” churchmen.

A RECEIVER has been appointed to 14 pharmacies in the Munster area.