Five lucky people are set to experience the thrill of a high-speed boat ride around Cork Harbour in a €1m wave-piercing vessel just days before its world-record bid.

Michael and Valerie Greaney, who died in a murder-suicide, are to be laid to rest side by side after separate funerals.

MORE than 500 family friends and work colleagues gathered together in silent mourning last night to escort the body of murdered teenager Sheola Keaney to Cobh Cathedral ahead of her burial this afternoon.