Having just stepped down from a three-year term as county chairman of the Vintners Federation of Ireland, publican Con Dennehy has taken ownership of The Venue bar, in Cork’s suburban Ballintemple.

The constant jangling of wind chimes in a neighbour’s back garden was described by 83-year-old pensioner Mary McBride as a deliberate act of cruelty against her and her husband Eddie.

THE reality of the banking crisis took on a very human face at Bank of Ireland’s extraordinary general meeting held in the Savoy Cinema in Dublin yesterday.