PRESIDENT Mary McAleese officially opened a €1.65 million sports facility in Cork yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of Scoil Bernadette special school.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Waterford woman Margaret Meg Walshe have renewed their appeal to the public for assistance.

The SDLP has welcomed the Alliance Party's decision to back Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey for Lord Mayor of Belfast and announced it too would be backing him.