AS YOU may have noticed in recent weeks the autumn seems to be French Wine Sale time in Irish supermarkets.

A BILL that stigmatises gay people and bans giving children any information about homosexuality won overwhelming approval last week in Russia’s lower house of parliament.

ALTHOUGH increasing numbers of us buy our wine at the supermarkets, this week I want to encourage you to remember the independent wine shops who can often provide more variety and unusual styles.

TWO Cork bars sales, one in the city, the other in Monkstown, have just been confirmed as the licensed market finally shows some signs of movement, albeit at a very low price level.

Tommy Hyde, who died yesterday, was a boxing legend.

IN A case of new wine in old bottles, multi-pub owner Benny McCabe this weekend opens a city wine and food bar in one of Cork’s oldest retail buildings, one that served as a pharmacy for close to a century.

“LEGS, arms, eyebrows, chest hair, nipples, inner thigh, everything. And I mean everything. I raised €2,500 that night but they took every bit of hair off me with the waxing,” said Ross Long as he thought back to that night in the Gaelic Bar.

THE father of a toddler who fell to her death from a third floor window in Cork is fundraising to build an orphanage in his daughter’s memory.

A CITY HALL has initiated legal action against the owners of a former bakery site for allowing material including asbestos to be stored on it.

SHOWBAND colleagues, family, friends and fans of Brendan O’Brien attended his removal in Cork City last night.

A TEENAGER was arrested in Cork city centre at the weekend after a shop was robbed at knifepoint.

A €110 MILLION state-of-the-art private hospital, expected to create 400 jobs in Cork’s western suburbs, was granted planning permission yesterday.

A €110 MILLION state-of-the-art private hospital, expected to create 400 jobs in Cork’s western suburbs, was granted planning permission yesterday.

A Cork taxi driver was caught with €200,000 worth of cocaine in the boot of his car in the city, the gardai claimed today as he was charged with having drugs for sale or supply.

A 22-year-old man is recovering this morning after he was injured in a paramilitary-style punishment attack in east Belfast last night.

A SHOP owned by an African couple has been daubed with racist graffiti for the third time in three months.

THE former owner of two massage parlours claimed yesterday he was dragged from his bedroom and severely beaten and his family were threatened in the name of the IRA to get him to make cash payments of up to 12,700.