With a rate of €55.88 Mallow Town Council put out its stall as the cheapest place to set up business in Co Cork — and it has paid dividends even during the recession.

FIFTY passengers had to be rescued from a bus after it became semi-submerged in flood water that deluged a north Cork town.

SHE’S spent 35 years in business on the same street, cleaned up after nearly 20 floods and lost thousands of euros because of the damage.