It was a sight seldom seen these days: Crowds spilling out of a Cork city centre church as queues formed outside and more waited in line for the next Mass.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions expects that, despite Thursday’s promissory note deal, tens of thousands of people will still turn out for today’s anti-austerity march because of the anger that Ireland is still burdened with a €64bn banking debt.

A Galway man wrongly convic-ted and hanged for the murder of a family of five in 1882 will be remembered next month ahead of efforts in the British Houses of Parliament to declare the conviction a miscarriage of justice.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Galway today to demonstrate against planned multi-million-euro health cuts in the west.

HUNDREDS of protesters marched on health authority offices in counties Galway and Mayo yesterday demanding an end to cuts in disability services.