Detectives hope to speak soon to an Irish J1 student who was beaten and left for dead in a San Diego alley.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to a Cork student attacked in the US.

SO Ryanair wants to use the old terminal at Cork airport and open 17 new routes. Exciting times. A million extra passengers per year.

I READ with sadness all the criticism of the new Cork airport in your letters columns recently.