Parents of children as young as six months are being encouraged to get them involved in the first free health and wellbeing festival of its kind in Cork this weekend.

Cork County Council is to seek urgent funding to restore a section of a seawall that collapsed last week.

THE fight against heart disease was taken to the countryside around Castleconnell in Co Limerick yesterday when an Irish Heart Foundation Slí na Sláinte (Path to Health) walking route was launched.