Children adopted from a Sacred Heart Sisters’ mother-and-baby home in Cork have called for an independent public inquiry to find out many babies died at the centre and where on the site they are buried.

A family of three, who had to flee their home for their own safety in the middle of the night, has been awarded damages for assault against a Dublin businessman and landlord and his two sons.

LEGENDARY Kerry trainer Pa Fitzgerald recorded his second J.P. McManus Irish Cup win in-a-row, and his sixth in all, when last season’s Boylesport Derby runner-up, Sandy Sea, landed the €80,000 winning prize for well- known owner Patsy Byrne (Duagh and London) at a well attended and highly successful Patrickswell meeting yesterday.

CHAMPION New Zealand disabled athlete Kate Horan is back on track for next week’s world championships after her special running leg was found yesterday, more than a week after an airline mislaid it.

Eurest has won a €5m contract to provide the catering services at Fota Wildlife Park in east Cork.

Helen Murphy has been named as the new commercial director of Dublin Zoo and Cork’s Fota Wildlife Park.

Helen Murphy has been appointed as commercial director of Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park in Cork.

VISITOR numbers at Dublin Zoo surged 10% to a new record of more than 770,000 last year.

LIVES will be put at risk by the impending cutbacks in the health service, a top hospital consultant warned yesterday.