Staff facing the axe at the Big Fish gaming company in Cork claim they are being offered redundancy packages “barely above minimum legal amounts”.

Just four years after it arrived in Ireland, gaming company Big Fish has announced it is pulling out of Cork.

IRELAND’S Pat Errity, from The European Club, secured one of the six places at the European Senior Tour Q-School final Stage in Portugal yesterday, earning playing rights for the 2011 season.

Three German hospital patients appear to have been infected with rabies through organ transplants and are in critical condition, a medical foundation said today.