A WEST Cork hospital which provides long-term care for the elderly is to close within weeks.

A YOUNG graduate who died in a car crash yesterday was remembered hours later as his former college launched a campaign focusing on road safety.

ONE of the towns worst affected by November’s devastating floods yesterday moved a step closer to a full-scale flood relief scheme.

THOUSANDS of students voiced their opposition to being hit with extra charges on top of higher registration fees when they took to the streets of Cork opposing any return of college fees.

A TOWN council count in west Cork had to go to a second recount, with a first-time FF candidate finally unseating a veteran FG member last night.

SINN FÉIN may be poised to make greater gains in the local elections in Co Cork than Labour.

THIS looks the easiest of the 10 Cork County Council electoral areas to predict, especially as it’s only a three-seater – and the three outgoing councillors are firm favourites to be returned.

HE is president of the students’ union at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) – a young gun admired by his peers.

MORE than 5,000 students took to the streets yesterday to hammer home their bitter opposition to the reintroduction of third-level fees.

Almost 6,000 students from Munster gathered in Cork today to voice their united opposition to a re-introduction of third-level fees.

IT MUST be every students’ dream — an invitation from a city’s first citizen to skip lectures for free beer.