Asylum seekers from as diverse countries as the Ukraine and Burundi plan to go on a tour of direct provision centres all around the country next year in a bid to spread their message of hope.

A young Cork man who is inclined to forget his own name was jailed for five months yesterday for threatening a member of An Garda Síochána.

A LITHUANIAN man is recovering in hospital after being struck by two cars as he “danced with traffic” on a busy road in Cork.

FINALLY sanity is about to prevail on our banana republic’s road traffic ‘management’ system with the recent announcement of a ‘seamless’ integration of distances and speeds on Irish roads.