A waterfront slice of old Cobh, and Queenstown before it, has come up for sale, with some novel additional features.

A Lusitania commemoration, postponed as a mark of respect to a husband and wife who died from stab wounds in a domestic incident, will take place next month.

A three-day early summer concert and the planned construction of a pedestrian causeway across a harbour will form part of Cork County Council’s €1m plans to turn Spike Island into a tourist mecca.

The Prison Service is spending €500,000 to supply inmates with clothes and shoes, it emerged today.

The Irish Prison Service today put out to tender a €12m contract to feed prisoners for the next two years.

THE Justice Minister confirmed yesterday that he is pressing ahead with plans to build a super-prison for Munster on Spike Island.

THE record over many years and governments shows that issues relating to children, particularly children on the margins, are not given priority.

A €70 MILLION prison is to be built on Spike Island in Cork Harbour, Justice Minister Michael McDowell revealed yesterday.

CORK’S Fort Mitchel prison closed yesterday and the last 13 prisoners held there were transferred to Limerick Prison.

PLANS to close the State’s two remaining open prisons were criticised yesterday.