A Bandon shopkeeper has apologised and agreed to pay undisclosed damages to a bank official after admitting he used language and behaved in such a way as to wrongly suggest she had stolen articles from his discount store.

A specimen pollock was used to strike a Polish man in the head during a full-scale row over the relative merits of Irish and Polish dance music.

Two community groups in Co Cork have expressed concern that “fish before people” red tape may prevent vital flood prevention works.

AS a working mother of two with crèche expenses of €1,500 per month I really think the Government should give parents who pay for childcare tax relief.