Eye patients attending Cork University Hospital risk losing vision “permanently and irreversibly” because of appointment delays, according to all five of the hospital’s ophthalmic surgeons.

An east Cork bar business, by the coast in pretty Shanagarry, has the world washing up at its counter, thanks to the nearby presence of the renowned Ballymaloe House, the Ballymaloe Cookery School, and the former Stephen Pearce Emporium, now a craft and design centre with cafe, by Kilkenny Design.

A woman who met a man online was found dead in his bed the next morning, an inquest has heard. Margaret Crowley, 37, of St Colman’s Place, Buttevant, Co Cork, joined ‘social discovery’ website Tagged where she met Brian Glass, from Tallaght in Dublin.

They stood in silence, their heads bowed, clasping flickering candles — all lost in their own thoughts but all unified in solidarity with the people of France.