Developers Westbrook Housing Company have been granted permission to construct 176 houses and 75 apartments at a site at Cooney's Lane in Grange, Co Cork.

A RETIRED schoolteacher was given a bad beating by two teenagers armed with wheel-braces as he sat in his car.

Almost 6,000 students from Munster gathered in Cork today to voice their united opposition to a re-introduction of third-level fees.