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Some of the country’s most prominent business leaders have warned against squandering the country’s vulnerable economic recovery in the general election.

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Audrey O’Carroll suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after she was attacked by a man who had ’invaded’ her life, writes Catherine Shanahan

The Mayor of County Cork has quit Fianna Fáil after more than 30 years and has criticised Micheál Martin “for not giving the party effective leadership” and wanting “to be surrounded by yes men in the parliamentary party”.

Ireland will see a 6-7% rise in visitor numbers next year, but could enjoy greater returns from tourism with more competitive airport charges, said Fáilte Ireland chairman Michael Cawley.

Such is the haste from which Cork football runs away from anything current to view everything through the distorted prism of July’s first Sunday, we can summarily discount yesterday’s 11-point victory over Kerry as utterly irrelevant, says Tony Leen.

A cyclist who died in a fall at the bottom of one of Cork’s steepest streets had no working brakes on his bike, an inquest has heard.

Small and medium-sized businesses run the risk of incurring greater damage and being worse affected than larger firms in the event of cyber crime, a leading expert has warned.

There are many things you don’t expect to do in your 20’s, and becoming Santa’s not-so-little helper would have topped my list, had I even considered it a possibility.

The head of one of the country’s fastest growing indigenous businesses has said that the lack of top-quality office space in Cork City has forced his company to locate a number of new positions elsewhere in Ireland.

A talent-show fundraiser run by estate agents Savills in Cork, Dublin and Belfast cities last week raised over €50,000 for cancer services in each of the three locations, entertaining over 1,000 people in the process. And, Louis Walsh impressions featuree among the three different judging panels in the Cork/Dublin/Belfast’s ‘Got Talent’ shows.

The fist ever Cork Digital Marketing Awards are being held today.

Irish householders could soon get a virtual-reality view of the threat flood waters pose to their properties on a year-by-year basis.

New York firefighters who battled the Twin Towers terrorist attacks on 9/11 are among a contingent of boxers taking to the ring in a friendly tournament against gardaí and members of a Co Cork boxing club.

Cork is among four cities worldwide chosen for a unique project set up by the International Red Cross to look at using emerging technology, including robots and drones, to ease flood risks.

A TELECOMS tycoon, who used €1 million of his fortune to found a charity, has appealed to the people of his home county for help building or repairing 3,000 homes in poverty-stricken Haiti.

THE search for a missing 27-year-old dentist came to a sad end yesterday.

GARDAÍ and naval divers will continue the search today for missing 27-year-old dentist Catherine Kelleher.

THE consortium behind controversial plans for a €250 million co-location hospital in Cork will try to ease local concerns at a public meeting today.

There is still no end in sight to the impasse between the Cork panels and the County Board over the right of the senior managers to choose his own selectors.

BISHOPSTOWN guild in Cork city is one guild which proves that the ICA is much more than a rural organisation.

FOR the first time in its history, Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), is to hold an alumni awards ceremony to honour its finest graduates.

HOPES of a breakthrough in the midwives row threatening the opening of a €75 million maternity hospital were dashed last night.

A LEADING pain specialist called for more state funding for pain clinics yesterday ahead of a major conference on the issue.

A SIGNIFICANT slice of Ireland’s €2 billion EU rural development fund should be ring-fenced to upgrade broadband in rural areas, an MEP said last night.

THE first phase of the €3 million ‘Banks of the Lee’ walkway, first suggested almost 20 years ago, was finally opened to the public yesterday.

Margaret McCormick, FCA, has been elected the first woman chairwoman of the Cork Society of Chartered Accountants (CSCA), succeeding Billy O’Connor.

AN armada of 200 Spanish trawlers will invade Irish fishing waters on January 1 unless Marine Minister Dermot Ahern works out a compromise deal, a fishermen’s leader warned last night.

AN armada of 200 Spanish trawlers will invade Irish fishing waters on January 1 unless Marine Minister