A chef broke into a credit union in the early hours of last New Year's Eve and was later found to have had in his apartment a steel safe that had been stolen from a Boylesports betting shop during the electricity blackout of Storm Ophelia.

SOME of Munster’s best houses are set along and above the Scilly Walk, in Kinsale harbour — and when they routinely changed hands for millions of euros, they prompted the rather obvious quip about Scilly money.