Burying people in the wrong graves and putting up incorrect headstones have cost Cork County Council tens of thousands of euro and it still has to “resolve” another three errors — which could prove equally costly.

People will ‘rest in peace’ more comfortably in West Cork than other parts of the county — knowing the cost of a burial plot in the coastal haven is a fraction of the price elsewhere.

Designs on a high-class, high standard house? Tommy Barker says Bramley Lodge could be the apple of your eye

Former GAA president Dr Mick Loftus was amongst the attendance yesterday at the funeral Mass of Down-born Joe McGrath who achieved notable successes as a hurling, football and camogie coach over the past 40 years while living in Cork.

“Your ghost will be a legend like the famous Sam Maguire,” John Egan Jr said in a poignant tribute to his father, John, before shouldering the tricolour-clad coffin out of the Church of the Real Presence in Curraheen, Bishopstown.

IF YOU think five acres of private gardens (just past Cork City’s suburban boundaries) might be too much to maintain, shame on you: the caretaker-gardener is 82 years and drives his ride-on mower like a boy racer.

THE funeral will take place on Monday of Eileen Martin, the mother of Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin TD, who died yesterday.

GARDAÍ searching for the killer of a convicted Cork drugs dealer believe the van used by the gunman avoided main roads during the getaway.

A FULLY updated bungalow, on a third of an acre site just west of Cork city, is up for sale with a €340,000 price guide.

SET up on Spur Hill rising out of Wilton and Togher in Cork, two bungalows currently on the market with 100,000 euro in price difference between them offer a flavour of country living and suburban convenience.