POLITICIANS have united to oppose college students’ plans for a “daytime alcohol bingeing fiasco” which wreaked havoc in a Cork suburb last year.

AGEISM is rife in media coverage of the upcoming elections.

THE brothers of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern have once more rallied to his defence, describing certain Mahon Tribunal questioning as “sick”, and insisting Mr Ahern will remain in office until 2011.

PEOPLE will be able to beam messages deep into space and destroy earth-killing comets thanks to a hi-tech astronomy visitor centre opening in Cork today.

LANDLORDS who don’t maintain their properties could be hauled before the courts in a local test of new national legislation.