It’s been described as “an absolute disgrace” that nearly 7,000 people are on the waiting list for houses in Co Cork, yet 600 Nama-owned homes and 163 apartments are lying idle.

DAWN MEATS is to close a processing plant in Midleton, Co Cork, possibly by the end of January.

IT took gardaí about a millisecond to work out that two men with a pile of valuable copper wire stuffed in their car might have been up to no good.