Hundreds of people turned out on the streets of Cork for the city’s 90th Eucharistic procession in beautiful sunshine yesterday.

Tánaiste Joan Burton expressed concern that young yes voters may not make it to the polls in sufficient numbers for Friday’s vote to extend civil marriage rights to same sex couples.

Labour would consider taking part in a live TV same sex marriage debate with No vote campaign representatives if a station makes an offer to organise such an event.

It is a reworking of an old maths lesson: Remember how ‘three into one won’t go’? Well, it might be time for some revision on that equation.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross John Buckley has invited the boards of management of three Cork city schools to a meeting to try to diffuse the row over plans by one of the schools to start enrolling junior infants.

The trustees of a Cork city school whose management and parents oppose plans to close it are being asked to explain their proposal to TDs and senators next month.

On a dank, grey evening, when even the rain couldn’t fall with any gusto, hundreds of diehard Cork fans slipped on their beloved red jerseys again and headed for the city centre to cheer on the boys for one last time this year.

Political choices on the abortion debate should not be free from the influence of faith matters, the papal nuncio said yesterday.

In his first address to his diocese, the new Bishop of Cloyne threw down the gauntlet to the banks, warning they need to “do more of the heavy lifting” as the financial crisis is crushing ordinary people.

A tragedy that touched the hearts of the nation exactly 12 months ago was remembered in a fishing village last night.

New laws to reform a limited ban on abortion will create a culture of life and not one of death, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

An appeal to 17 managers of schools and homes where children were abused has failed to illicit a single additional contribution to the €1.47bn redress bill.

THERE was the persistent presence of a sexual predator working in Baltimore Industrial School.

A plaque is to be dedicated on a tiny West Cork island in memory of its people and especially to children that died before baptism.

Exactly a week after Steve Redmond’s Oceans Seven world-record feat the country’s swimming fraternity is in mourning after another Corkman died while crossing the English Channel.

Survivors of industrial abuse have accused the Irish Catholic hierarchy of “trying to cut us dead” in the past year and have threatened, in a protest action, to walk 253km from Cork to Dublin during the week of the Eucharistic Congress.

The Bon Secours nuns marked 150 years in Ireland with the launch of an exhibition last night which highlights their contribution to Irish society.

Air-accident investigators were trying to piece together the final minutes of the Cork plane crash that left six people dead.

The General Election campaign was temporarily stalled as rival politicians delayed events to pay respects to the victims of the Cork air crash.

Two of the six people injured in this morning's Manx 2 airplane crash at Cork Airport are in a critical condition, the Irish Aviation Authority has confirmed.

THEY had been waiting for 20 years for him to come home, so up to 50,000 fans did not mind a bit when Sam Maguire was delayed by almost an hour on his trip back to the rebel county.

DEATHS from swine flu in Ireland are inevitable as the disease begins to sweep the country, the Health Service Executive has warned.

A HIGH Court challenge against the Education Minister for refusing to decide on an application that an all girls primary school be officially allowed enrol boys and be recognised as a gaelscoil has been dismissed.

GOODBYE Mr Chips! A veteran politician and chip shop mogul was accorded a civic reception last night ahead of his retirement after 30 years of public service.

“NOT only did I lose my brother; I lost my best friend, my idol.”

THE Polish community in Ireland was in mourning yesterday after a building in southern Poland collapsed killing 66 people and injuring more than 200.

A PARISH priest was placed under garda protection following verbal assaults on him during Mass in a Co Wexford village.