It may have been nervous relief, but John Murphy saw a funny side to the near-death experience he endured after being hit by a giant wave near Bantry Bay.

Now you see me, now you don’t — what photographer Adrian Cronin witnessed on the battered shores of Bantry Bay was like a scene from tsunami drama The Impossible, a scene replicated around a storm-clobbered coast.

Up to 14,000 people could be in danger of being cut off if gale force winds and flooding were to damage the only bridge leading into a town in Co Cork.

MANAGEMENT accountant trainee Adrian Cronin from Cork City, an IT Project Leader with Bord Gáis Eireann, has come first in the world in one of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) May 2008 global accountancy exams.