A tearful mum of one of the two heroes missing after saving two others from drowning said her son went to their rescue as he couldn’t have lived with himself if they had died, according to the Evening Echo.

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a 100-bedroom hotel and 66 houses in Co Cork have been turned down, but Marymount Hospice has received permission to build a 129-bed hospital.

A MOBILE home owner claimed yesterday she was forced out of a holiday retreat in West Cork after chemically treated human excrement was spread beneath her caravan.