Limerick University Hospital failed to notify a coroner of the suspicious death of a patient, as it is obliged to do so by law, an inquest has heard.

Traders and residents in a West Cork town are seeking commercial rate cuts and an easing of parking restrictions during a planned €6.5m drainage scheme works.

TRADERS and Bandon Town Council are at loggerheads about the extent of anti-flooding measures carried out in the year since the West Cork town suffered its worst flooding in 500 years.