A widow yesterday saw the final chapter close on a tragic night over 27 years ago when she witnessed her then 17-year-old only daughter die from an asthma attack after being rushed to a Limerick hospital.

ROCKCHAPEL in north Cork, at the border of counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick, near the Mullaghareirk Mountains, is one of the highest villages in Ireland.

THOUSANDS of empty plastic containers, washed up near Blue Flag beaches in east Cork, are thought to have come from one of seven containers lost at sea last month.

Gay rights activists have criticised comments made by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Coughlan, in which she said Ireland would never be ready for same-sex marriage or adoption.

THERE weren’t too many happy campers at Cork University Hospital’s crowded A&E department yesterday.