Some 28 family doctors’ practices are being paid over €500,000 a year by the State to treat patients who cannot afford care, HSE figures show.

George O’Mahony, who has died at the age of 88, was a former company secretary of Cork Examiner Publications Ltd and a director of Thomas Crosbie and Co Ltd.

A NORTH DUBLIN GP clinic is being paid over three quarters of a million euro a year by the state to treat patients who cannot afford their own costs.

IT was a debut that tumbled off a dream script. Time was slipping away on Cork’s All-Ireland minor football dream at the start of August with Armagh having taken a firm grip on their quarter-final.

ONE man inspired a congregation of several hundred Mass-goers to stand and applaud the priests of their parish on Sunday.

A STONEMASON stabbed to death in Cork city was yesterday remembered at his requiem mass as having been a cheerful, outgoing person who had a love of travel and cooking.

A YOUNG Corkman has died in Thailand after a weekend motorbike crash.

HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday said their last farewell to a young sportsman who died in a car accident earlier this week.

THOUSANDS of people paid their last respects yesterday to a couple described as “warm, loving and generous parents”, who were tragically killed by a hit and run driver while on holiday in Mallorca.