It is imperative to stop the loss of essential rental accommodation, says estate agent Sheila O’Flynn.

CORK CITY will have a new landmark design building later this year, in one of it most prominent settings - half way up the vertiginous St Patrick’s Hill. A school redevelopment there has been designed by the winners of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey.

Author Sheila O’Flanagan got a shock when she started the menopause at 35 but a year later, her first book was published and she hasn’t looked back, says Margaret Jennings.