A ‘FARMED’ field of seven acres, in the heart of suburban Douglas in Cork city is being sold for about €10m, or €1.4m an acre, to rapidly-expanding developers Centurion Homes, currently active in Dublin and Cork.

A young man who was caught drink driving only chanced driving in response to a late-night call from a friend who was threatening to jump off a bridge.

For years, Noel Barry and his four buddies have sailed Cork harbour, sampling the seafood chowder available at its bars and restaurants. Here, they give some advice to sailors with a hearty appetite

A 13-year-old boy, who murdered Cobh man Christopher ‘Jack’ Barry just before Christmas, has been locked up for a minimum of 11 years.

A large group of family and friends paid tribute to a “kind, sincere gentleman”, Christopher ‘Jackie’ Barry, as he was laid to rest in Cobh, Co Cork, yesterday.

Tributes have been paid to the “quiet and unassuming” Cork man Jack Barry who was brutally stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend outside their apartment in London over the weekend.

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A CONTROVERSIAL government-funded charity for survivors of institutional abuse is set to open offices in Galway, Waterford, Limerick and Cork, according to a newsletter published by its new board of directors.

THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has received two separate requests to investigate a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

THERE is no “record or evidence” of how anyone except a select inner circle benefited over a 10-year period in which the State was funding an organisation for survivors of institutional abuse, it has been claimed.

A LEGAL firm has written to the secretaries general of the Departments of Health and Education, outlining serious concerns about a Cork-based organisation for survivors of institutional abuse.

FORMER Fianna Fáil mayor and institutional abuse survivor Michael O’Brien said it was imperative that ongoing difficulties with Cork-based survivor group Right of Place be “solved once and for all”.

A CHARITY for survivors of institutional abuse continues to get government funding despite senior HSE management being shown evidence more than a year ago that there was “concern” over how the money was being used.

THE HSE has ordered an investigation into alleged abuse and threats made by members of a charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

THE HSE is incapable of sorting out ongoing serious difficulties in a charity for survivors of institutional abuse so the Government must now step in, it has been claimed.

SERIOUS issues in the running of a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse still have not been addressed despite the warring parties signing a HSE-brokered agreement to do so.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have asked the Taoiseach to instruct the HSE to discontinue funding a Cork-based charity for victims – and let Gardaí step in and investigate it.

THE HSE is providing funding to a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse despite stating it would not do so until “outstanding impediments” to a new contract for 2010 had been finalised.

THE Controller and Auditor General must investigate how funds given to a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse were spent, Labour TD Sean Sherlock has said.

CONCERNS have been raised over how a High Court action – brought against his own members by the head of a group for survivors of institutional abuse – is being funded.

THE Health Service Executive must make a statement on the running of a state-funded group for survivors of institutional abuse, according to a Cork TD.

NO further funding will be given to a group representing survivors of institutional abuse until its membership proves they can manage public money appropriately, the Health Service Executive has warned.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have met with a representative of the Bishop of Cork and Ross in relation to donations made to Right of Place.

THE row that broke out between the founder of Right of Place, Noel Barry, and some of its member finally came to a head last month.

Victims of child abuse in church-run institutions will today hand a petition to the head of the Conference of Religious of Ireland.

Organisers of a silent demonstration in memory of victims of clerical abuse in church-run institutions will leave children’s shoes piled at the Dáil railings following the march.

THE showdown between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and the 18 religious orders which signed the controversial 2002 child abuse indemnity deal is to take place next Thursday — a day after he meets survivors’ groups to hear their demands for an appropriate response from both Church and state.

THOSE who may have suffered abuse in orphanages and industrial schools in Ireland have been advised that it may not be too late to apply for compensation.

THE former Backpackers’ Lodge in Schull has taken itself up a notch or two, but hasn’t lost sight of its green credentials.

LAWYERS acting for victims of abuse in institutional schools came under fire last night for creaming off €29m in legal fees from the Redress Board.

Tommy Barker views a house set on seven coastal acres in Kinsale.

SURVIVORS of child abuse have called for a full investigation into the role of the Irish Society for the Protection of Children (ISPCC) in delivering children into institutions.

THE first of more than 50 solicitors accused of overcharging survivors of abuse will appear before a Law Society committee this week.

THE Law Society has hit back at the abuse victims compensation board for saying it could have done more to stop solicitors overcharging vulnerable clients.

WITH growing suicide rates among child abuse victims, support groups are planning widespread protests if the work of a long-awaited compensation board fails to get underway next month.