A boy, 4, has been rushed to hospital with serious injuries after he was knocked down on the northside of Cork.

Death or serious injury could have resulted from the outrageous driving of a man who, speeding away from gardaí, drove the wrong way around roundabouts and crashed into a CIÉ bus.

Children’s safety will be at risk if a retiring lollipop lady is not replaced by the local council, parents and staff at a Cork City primary school claim.

LINES of people sloping stoically along to a far-off water pump while holding any container they can find would normally give rise to images of a ravaged part of sun-scorched, sub-Saharan Africa.