Two separate grant schemes have been launched to help tackle dereliction in the historic spine of Cork City.

It was all too familiar for Hannah and Noel O’Driscoll waking in the early hours to the water coming into the ground floor of their Blackpool home.

A major shopping centre and hundreds of homes have been evacuated in Cork city following a gas leak.

WATER shortages across the country are set to continue over the next few days as local authorities fight to handle the big thaw which is causing burst pipes and flooding.

THE legacy of Seamus Murphy was everywhere to be seen in Blackpool yesterday as Cork paid tribute to one of its greatest artists.

WORLD-RENOWNED sculptor Seamus Murphy is to be honoured in Cork next year to mark the centenary of his birth.