Ex-Fine Gael TD Áine Collins lost out on the final seat in the Macroom area as two party colleagues, Eileen Lynch and Ted Lucey completed a FG hatrick in the six-seater.

MEMBERS of the public were urged yesterday to tell Government parties they will vote against them unless they do a U-turn on Cork Airport’s €100 million debt.

THE total mileage of roads in Cork far exceeds any other county.

TAXPAYERS will have to pay €4 million for a hotel which has been unoccupied since it was purchased by the State four-and-a-half years ago to be used as an asylum seeker centre.