Repairs are expected to continue throughout the night on the huge container ship, Atlantic Companion, which is anchored in Bantry Bay after losing engine power and drifting for almost 12 hours off Cork on Tuesday.

A Cork home that can justly claim to be one of the very best — if not the best — house in the southern capital, comes to market this weekend with a cool €3.8m asking price, redolent of the best of the boom-times values.

THE name is accurate: Bruach na Laoi sits on the edge of the river at Union Quay, Cork, and is one of those discreet, inner-city apartment blocks that looks like its been there forever.