MORE marriages are breaking down because of financial and gambling worries and an alarming rise in the use of internet porn and cyber sex.

CORK County Council has granted a number of significant planning permissions, including an extension to the Rochestown Park Hotel, which will make it the second largest hotel in Munster.

PLANS to centralise tourism offices around the country are a direct response to the effects of the budget airline phenomenon which is encouraging city breaks, according to tourist chiefs.

CORK hoteliers could be on the verge of breaking away from the Cork-Kerry Tourism agency and going it alone.

A ROW has broken out between hoteliers and Tourism Ireland amid claims the organisation is not marketing Cork enough abroad in the run-up to the 2005 celebrations.