About 1,000 mourners are expected to attend a funeral prayer service for the family of a neurosurgeon who died in a suspected arson attack.

Three women arrested as part of an investigation into a fatal house fire which killed four members of the same family of a Dublin surgeon killed have been bailed.

A Dublin neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

Police in England have arrested five people in connection with the fatal house fire which killed the wife and three children of a Dublin-based surgeon.

The four family members of a Dublin surgeon killed in a recent house fire had no connections to a street attack in which a man was murdered, police have confirmed today.

British detectives are investigating after the wife and children of a Dublin-based surgeon were killed in a house fire in England.

Victims of the summer floods which devastated West Cork towns Clonakilty and Rathbarry are this morning waking to yet more heart-breaking damage, after torrential rainfall struck two months to the night after the June crisis.

More than 22,000 books were lost at two libraries in Co Cork as a result of major flooding two months ago, Cork County Council officials have revealed.

Cork County Council urgently requires almost €10m from Government departments to carry out repairs after last month’s floods.

JEREMIAH McGrath was given a nine-day suspension at Cheltenham yesterday - despite Thursday’s amendments to the British Horseracing Authority’s stringent whip rules.

PLANS to establish an open air market in a car park in a west Cork town have been shot down.

A WEST Cork town will miss out on increased Government grant aid for farmers’ markets if a dispute between a local authority and food producers is not resolved.

Eddie Cassidy