Staff and guests will be invited to a special prayer service in a Co Cork hotel this morning to remember the toddler who lost his life after being pulled from its swimming pool.

I READ with bemusement Pat Corkery’s attack on Cork Socialist Party councillor Mick Barry (Letters, August 21) and with much greater alarm the letter by Desmond FitzGerald from Canary Wharf in London, no less.

THE Russian invasion of Georgia got me to thinking of the response of our local politicians in Cork — one in particular, Cllr Mick Barry, a socialist member of the city council.