AN investigation into standards of care at Mallow General Hospital has been branded a “sneaky and underhand” campaign to downgrade services at the hospital.

IT will be the first time in 40 years that the name Sherlock hasn’t appeared on a local election ballot paper in Mallow.

FOUR fresh faces, five seats and a multitude of reasons to run – Ronan Sheehan, Tom Barry, John Paul O’Shea and Willie O’Regan have joined the mad gallop to represent Mallow at Cork County Council level.

CORK motorists are subsidising drivers in the greater Dublin area and – to add insult to injury – they’ll have to endure even more potholed roads in the future, a council debate in Cork heard yesterday.

ANOTHER call has been made for the Bishop of Cloyne to resign amid concern over his handling of allegations of child sex abuse in the diocese.

A PRIVATE refuse company could face legal action by reportedly claiming Cork County Council was terminating its waste collection business.

BUSINESS owners and householders were left counting the cost yesterday as large parts of Mallow and Fermoy in Co Cork were under water after serious flooding.

DISABLED people are waiting up to a year to be assessed by an occupational therapist (OT) before they even can get approval for vital work on their homes, it was claimed yesterday.

Gardaí believe the blaze at St Mary's girls' primary school in Mallow today may have been started deliberately with rubbish set on fire next to the rear door.

THE 1916 Rising was commemorated with ceremonies in Mallow yesterday.

THE Mayor of Mallow has vowed to do everything in his power to block Greencore’s plans unless it properly compensates 145 former employees.

A LOCAL authority may have to seek a compulsory purchase order to prevent Mallow losing its town park to two brothers, one of whom is a former equerry and private secretary to the late Princess Diana.