The latest efforts to curb a strand of hi-tech criminality that costs the global economy hundreds of billions of euro each year have strong connections to cork business.

THE two little girls playing tea party in the sparse room of the orphanage caught John O’Riordan’s eye.

DIPLOMATIC efforts are under way to get Belarus to lift a threatened ban on children affected by the Chernobyl disaster from travelling to Ireland for holidays.

Former workers at Irish Fertiliser Industries in Arklow, Belfast and Cork are to take action today to prevent stock being removed from the company’s factories.