Some of the longest-serving traders in Cork’s historic street market quarter have backed calls for a new strategy to save its street trading tradition from extinction.

A cancer patient who was accidently rendered paraplegic by an operation to help manage her pain would “on the balance of probability” have lived longer if the surgery had not taken place.

THE Munster finals of the Irish Mixed Foursomes get under way at Monkstown on Saturday, with Nenagh facing Newcastle West in the first of the semi-finals at 9am.