A credit union cannot sell the jointly-owned family homes of two Cork men to recover judgments against them because their wives had nothing to do with the loan transactions and never signed any document providing their homes as security, the Court of Appeal ruled.

A High Court judge yesterday refused to grant an order to a credit union to clear the way for the sale of two family homes to meet a €560,000 unpaid loan.

A retired teacher from West Cork is one of the architects of the prestigious 11th World Flower Show, expected to attract up to 30,000 visitors when it opens for the first time in Ireland later this month.

The versatile rosehip can be put to a host of culinary and medicinal uses, says Kitty Scully.