A father and his three year old son drowned after becoming trapped in a ditch while using a short-cut into an estate, an inquest heard.

The change of use of the former Marymount Hospice building at St Patrick’s Hospital on Cork’s northside, to a third-level college, is not exempt from planning requirements, An Bord Pleanála has decided.

A Nigerian national who acted as a courier to transport nearly €500,000 worth of cocaine concealed in a child’s seat and cereal boxes from Dublin to England has been jailed for six years.