Nightclubs, pubs, and office blocks with reserve prices of over €1m each were among 156 properties sold for a total of €48m at the latest Allsop auction.

A 50-year-old woman was arrested this week over alleged cocaine dealing at a bingo centre in Cork City.

AFTER spending a very pleasant evening with a Burmese patriot in Rangoon and listening to his account of life under British imperialism and subsequently, during World War II, under the harshly oppressive rule of the Japanese, it has been disappointing to learn of the further suppression of freedom in post-colonial Burma.

AN immediate evacuation for all of New Orleans was ordered last night as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revving up to nearly 175mph and threats of a massive storm surge.

British and US elite forces have launched a raid to capture key oil facilities in southern Iraq.