A coroner is to write to a town council telling it to erect a barrier between a popular walkway and a major river to prevent any more late night revellers falling in and drowning.

ULTIMATELY they went down anyway — but not without a fight.

IF Galway were a political party right now they would be Fianna Fáil.

THE owners of listed buildings and protected structures will be able to avail of free advice on upkeep thanks to seminars which will take place in Co Cork over the coming weeks.

IN his letter headlined ‘Let’s nurture the salmon – not destroy it’ (June 9), Edward Hallinan decries the proposed restoration of a way of life for a small group of traditional fishermen.

INVESTIGATIONS into the discovery of hundreds of dumped medical files at a former landfill outside Cork city will move to an adjacent piece of land next week.

THE NATIONAL Roads Authority (NRA) is to examine the safety of the Mitchelstown bypass after a head-on collision there on Monday afternoon led to the deaths of two men.

CORK County Council officials are to compile a report on designating Spike Island a national heritage and amenity site, in a move which could finally remove any possibility of a super jail being built there.

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

FROM THE roadside the single-storey cottage is an eye catcher.

IN a week when local politicians expressed concerns about what they described as an unemployment crisis in the town, Youghal was left reeling yesterday under the impact of another major jobs setback.

Tommy Barker visits a spectacular Georgian property that sits on 20 acres and includes a tennis court, stables and private stretch of river.