A message in a bottle, sent from Florida in the US, arrived on a sandy west Cork beach last week, almost exactly one year after it left the Sunshine State’s shores.

IT could be in west Cork, with its mad, fuchsia-coloured walls outside.

VEGETARIANS yesterday reacted with dismay after learning their favourite chocolate bars are now being made with animal products.

FIREMEN had to break down the gate to gain access and found no water with which to fight the blaze that destroyed the Good Shepherd convent and chapel at Sundays Well in Cork recently.