The former postmaster at Crosshaven post office, who was described as well-liked and active in his community, was given an 18-month suspended sentence yesterday for scamming pensioners and others out of €43,000 over 12 years.

Mayfield 2-9 Glanmire 2-5: Mayfield began their Cork County IFC odyssey this season with a four-point first-round victory in a local derby against Glanmire at Watergrasshill on Saturday night.

The 10 hospitals in the south/south west hospital group will have to collectively generate €3 million every week this year in order to break even by the end of 2015.

Expensive equipment was stolen from yachts locked up at a boatyard in Crosshaven and yesterday the culprit pleaded guilty to the crimes.

A motorist drove behind two cyclists, beeped at them, shouted that "fucking cyclists were taking over the road", threatened that he would roll over them next time, and drove off with a single-finger gesture out the window — not realising that the cyclists were two off-duty gardaí.

A motorist drove behind two cyclists, beeped at them, shouted that "fucking cyclists were taking over the road", threatened that he would roll over them next time, and drove off with a single-finger gesture out the window — not realising that the cyclists were two off-duty gardaí.

A clinic treating children for orthopaedic conditions such as congenital hip dysplasia (dislocation) and club foot is seeing up to 70 patients a day, even though the ideal number is 24, according to the surgeon involved.

Momentum has gathered at the Fota Retail Park, coming up on the first anniversary of the arrival of Ballyseedy Garden Centre there last June.

Hope springs eternal, and at the end of another superb National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel, why not?

THE emergency department at one of Cork city’s busiest hospitals is to close next April as part of a major reconfiguration of the region’s health services.

A BREAST cancer unit destined for closure under Government plans to centralise treatment services has recorded its busiest year ever.

SURGICAL patients infected with the MRSA superbug spend on average an extra 18 days in hospital compared with patients who undergo surgery but are MRSA-free.

THE decline of the hobby farmer is showing in the small farm market.

TWENTY years ago, pensioners on the northside of Cork city offered to contribute 50p a week towards the upkeep of the North Infirmary Hospital in an effort to keep it open.