A miracle spared the life of a baby boy whose buggy was blown from his mother’s hands and pinned between a wall and a car in Ballintemple in Cork city.

Remarkable suicide awareness and road safety campaigner Elber Twomey believes she has an “army in heaven” helping her every day.

Christmas is coming and the list is getting fat — with cool, yuletide gifts handpicked by Esther N McCarthy for your Christmas time present perusal.

UNDER threat from rampant commercialism, these are the people behind the small family-run shops and businesses that give Cork city its soul and character.