A €10 MILLION plan to turn a stately mansion and its extensive grounds into a major tourist attraction rivalling the Rock of Cashel and Muckross House is to be discussed next month by Fáilte Ireland and the Office of Public Works (OPW).

IT mightn’t be a complete folly to follow in the footsteps of 19th century eccentric Johnny Roche — the man who built this River Awbeg tower, called Castle Curious, in the 1840s, just after the Famine.

GARDAÍ are now certain that a mother and her two grown-up children drowned in a north Cork river last Sunday, and not on Monday as first thought.

A SOLITARY bouquet of flowers lay at the waters edge yesterday as disbelieving neighbours prayed at the spot where the bodies of a mother and her two children were taken from a river in north Cork.

Moving tributes were paid today to a mum and her two children who died in a tragic swimming accident in Castletownroche yesterday.