A new tourist train is set to roll through the streets of Cork city from next month, thanks to a €100,000 public investment which includes a €10,000 grant to cover large insurance costs.

Glowing tributes have been paid to Cork’s ‘Mr Christmas’ who is pulling the plug on his electrical career after more than 40 years.

“You can almost dial for heroin in Cork now,” says Sinn Féin councillor Chris O’Leary.

ALWAYS a snap buy when they come up, Red Abbey Court houses are right in the ‘flat of the city’ and combine convenience with own-door privacy.

I WOULD like to add my own condemnation of the demolition of Fr Mathew’s Chapel on Blackamore Lane (Irish Examiner, Thursday, October 21).