An Irish Times poll for Cork North Central shows that Socialist Party/United Left Alliance candidate Mick Barry may take the fourth seat with 13% of the first preference vote.

WHAT the media appears to have overlooked in its reporting of last Friday’s events in Bellanaboy, Co Mayo, is the fact that a garda superintendent, apparently with the approval of the justice minister, arbitrarily decided to ban a legitimate protest march organised by the Shell to Sea campaign.

MICHAEL D HIGGINS’S drawn-out decision on whether to remain in politics has left the Labour Party facing a possible west coast crisis as local councillors rebel against the party.

Labour councillor Declan Bree has walked out of an internal party disciplinary hearing this afternoon.