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Fears that pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly’s decision to postpone a €200m investment in Kinsale, Co Cork are a reaction to US President Donald Trump’s protectionism are overstated, according to a leading economist.

As the countdown to the greatest sports show on earth begins, Marjorie Brennan talks to five of our Olympic athletes about their journey to Rio.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Tommy Barker reports on the launch of a development in the harbour town that’s been years in the making.

A new fundraising initiative is giving every shopper in the country the chance to donate €1 to help children in or at risk of homelessness.

Like many other prisoners after the Rising, Diarmuid Lynch had to have correspondence to family and loved ones smuggled out of prisons and military barracks.

The HSE has confirmed that it has temporarily closed a creche in Kinsale, Co Cork, following an E.coli scare.

A father of seven has revealed the lengths he has had to go to in order to have his family car insured, and said he felt discriminated against because of his family size.

The King of the Hill triathlon took place in Kinsale on Saturday, July 25, 2015.

Rose Martin delights in this American-style property on a waterside site of 1.67 acres, minutes from Kinsale.

LAURA Murphy is from Kinsale, Co Cork, and is dancer in residence at Firkin Crane. She performs in A Dance Brew at Firkin Crane on Saturday as part of Cork Midsummer Festival.

Kim Haughton’s powerful installation uses sound and pictures to explore the stories of abuse victims, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A 70-year-old widow is preparing to embark on a gruelling 2,500km cycle to raise much-needed funding for children with a congenital heart defect.

The discovery by Iraqi forensic teams “of mass graves believed to contain some of the soldiers killed by Islamic State (IS) militants last year” (Irish Examiner, 7 April), is, I fear, merely the first in a cycle of IS atrocities as it retreats.

As Kinsale’s market ascends with the onset of Spring, Tommy Barker views this tasteful and spacious offering.

Once the fire brigade intervenes, a house can be left with water as well as smoke damage, says <B>Caroline Delaney.</b>

A new film shows that breastfeeding is not only nutritious, it’s a bonding activity, says Ailin Quinlan

Ambitious plans to develop an interpretive centre and a memorial to honour Irish soldiers who have served in armies around the world over the last four centuries have been unveiled.

The Trident Hotel in Kinsale, Co Cork, is on course to record operating profits of €530,000 this year.

An Irish DJ has been invited to rock Glastonbury.

I don’t think people can function without goals. I certainly couldn’t.

A UCC-based team of experts is breaking new ground in helping people decide their end-of-life care, writes Colette Sheridan.

A plumber and his firm were yesterday sent for trial on separate charges to a circuit criminal court following the carbon monoxide poisoning, 18 months ago, of a hotel guest in Kinsale, Co Cork.

New charges were preferred yesterday against a plumbing and heating firm following the 2011 death of a hotel guest from acute carbon monoxide poisoning in Kinsale, Co Cork.

Ballinacurra House in Kinsale, Co Cork, is the latest winner of the prestigious ‘Exclusive Wedding Venue of Year’ Award.

Two killers broke down in tears at opposite sides of a courtroom dock yesterday after hearing of the impact on the murdered victim’s heartbroken family.

Those who knew him well saw globe-trotting millionaire John O’Connor as a dynamic, complex, mercurial, and generous man and paid their due tributes yesterday.

The failure of Cappoquin Poultry Ltd to repay almost €4m in debts to Henry Good Ltd feed mill in Kinsale, Co Cork, has resulted in receivers being appointed to the family-run company.

An 11-year-old girl is this morning coming to terms with the death of her mother just days before Christmas.

The Irish family of an RAF fighter pilot who crash-landed in the Sahara during the Second World War have spoken of their plans to bring him home for burial.

A receiver has been appointed to the Carlton Hotel in Kinsale, Co Cork.

The Funeral Mass has taken place in Dungarvan in Co Waterford for one of the two men who died in Kinsale, Co Cork last weekend.

A post mortem and toxicology tests will be carried out today on the bodies of two friends who died from suspected drug overdoses.

How do you make sure gardaí respond promptly to your 999 call? Simple — gift them a sat-nav for their patrol car.

Applications have flooded in and are long closed for The Entrepreneur Experience 2012, the second annual non-stop 24-hour business fast-tracking event widely dubbed Sleepless in Kinsale.

HE promised he would spend his €7 million Lotto fortune on his family rather than himself.

A FORMER garda faces up to 10 years in prison for stealing thousands of euro from his colleagues and an 82-year-old woman.