Cork: Independent Irish Health Foods officially opened its new facility in the Údarás na Gaeltachta Business Park in Baile Mhúirne, Co Cork, yesterday.

ON a sunny day when the spectre of violent death visited the tranquil farming countryside of north Kerry, signs of new life were, ironically, everywhere to be seen.

A 77-year-old man has died in hospital in Cork after he was injured in a car crash on Saint Patrick's Day.