To the charge that Harper’s Island in Cork Harbour, with its three points of contact to the ‘mainland’, is not an island, the rebuttal affirming its island status: The area is defined by its natural history and not its current structures, writes Dan MacCarthy.

The N25 in Co Cork has been cleared after a ten-car crash there this morning.

Gardaí have said nobody has been seriously injured in a 10-car crash in Cork.

A car may have been driving in the wrong direction on the N25 motorway when it and another car were in collision, according to initial Garda investigations.