A 30-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with a serious assault which has left a 73-year-old man in a critical condition in a Cork hospital.

Gardaí have continued to question a woman in her 40s in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Macroom, Co Cork, in the early hours of Monday.

I HATE writing this letter. Years ago, when I was a student at the Cork School of Art, one of my teachers, a much-travelled man, said that in his opinion ‘Cork was one of the dullest cities in Europe’.