The fire at the Commons Inn in Cork has been brought under control.

Only 5% or 6% of adults in the Knocknaheeny and Churchfield areas of Cork City have college degrees and one in three in some parts of the northside have only been educated to primary level.

NOW that there is no collection from the GPO in Cork at the weekend, a letter posted from Cork city to Galway at 9pm on Friday will not arrive until Tuesday, four days later.

British MPs tonight voted overwhelmingly to ban fox-hunting and hare-coursing – after a debate interrupted when five pro-hunt demonstrators stormed into the Commons chamber.