The sporting community in Cork and beyond turned out in force yesterday to honour the memory of renowned hurling coach Archdeacon Michael O’Brien, whose funeral took place in his native Innishannon following Mass in St Mary’s Church yesterday.

Two children’s homes run by the Catholic Church will be investigated first as part of a major inquiry into institutional abuse in the North, it has been revealed.

MARCH

The number of patients who have died as a result of a flu outbreak at a Co Donegal nursing home has risen to seven.

The HSE has confirmed that another resident of a private nursing home in Buncrana, Co Donegal has died.

Doctors still have some concerns about a number of people affected by a flu outbreak at a nursing home in Donegal, which has claimed the lives of six elderly people.

The HSE was not alerted to a spate of deaths at a private nursing home in Donegal until all six patients had died.

HSE guidelines warn that the type of virus which caused a lethal nursing home outbreak could spread rapidly in enclosed settings and, among older people, may not be stopped by the flu jab.

Six bouquets of flowers marked the freshly dug grave of Margaret McGuire, lying finally beside her husband Thomas.

The nursing home at the centre of six sudden deaths and 27 more infections caused by a flu outbreak was told of potential cross-infection risks two years ago.

Influenza claimed the lives of six elderly people who died in a private nursing home, tests have revealed.

Health chiefs remain concerned about a small number of residents who are ill at a private nursing home where six people have died in a suspected viral outbreak.

Test results are due this evening from residents at a private nursing home in Co Donegal where six people died from a respiratory illness in the last 12 days.

THE death has occurredof Richard (Dick) Barry of Dromsligo, Mallow, one of the most prominent and popular personalities in Irish golf for many years.

MY mother, Brigid Selina Walsh, was born in 1929 in South Kensington, London, and brought up in Nazareth House orphanage in Hammersmith, also in London.

THE guessing game goes on and for owner Eddie Ryan and trainer Michael O'Donovan it must be a frustrating time as Serene Rumble remains on the doubtful list for Saturday’s Paddy Power Derby quarter finals at Shelbourne Park.