Inspections conducted at a care home for people with intellectual disabilities in Co Tipperary found a string of problems after health watchdog Hiqa received a tip-off about issues there — including that people were shouted at and called names.

More than 5,000 singers will participate in the Cork International Choral Festival’s programme on the May public holiday weekend.

The HSE has taken the first steps towards the possible installation of surveillance systems in its facilities to protect vulnerable patients in the wake of the Áras Attracta controversy.

The HSE has signalled that "a more detailed investigation will be required" into complaints at a care unit for people with intellectual disabilities where 11 workers have been placed on leave.

A three-year maintenance programme has been drafted to safeguard Cork’s landmark Shandon clock, which began ticking again yesterday for the first time in almost two years.

One of Belfast’s most senior Protestant clerics has said he would welcome a visit from Pope Francis.

The man campaigning to get Cork’s landmark Shandon clock fixed has called on city bosses to apply for emergency heritage funding to do the repairs.

Cork City Council has warned that it will take some time to restore the city’s iconic Shandon clock to full working.

The phrase “on the first day of Christmas, my doctor gave to me, a donated Wii console” may not have the same ring to it as the traditional holiday carol.

This week’s return of the Irish Open to Royal Portrush could spark a rekindling of the tournament’s halcyon days of the 1970s and ’80s, says leading golf commentator Ewen Murray.

The National Chamber Choir and the Gentlemen Singers both perform at Cork Choral Festival on May 4, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

Special commemorative services, vigil marches and the opening of a £77m (€100m) visitors' centre are among the highlights of the three-week Titanic festival at the city where the vessel was built.

Police chiefs and political leaders were struggling to restore calm to England’s streets today after riots spread across the country.

DARREN CLARKE last night stood up for Tiger Woods and gave the former world number one a ringing endorsement as a human being and not just a golfing machine with myriad personal problems to solve.

CONAL KEANEY has revealed how lucky he was to only escape with knee and ankle injuries from his motorbike accident last Friday morning on his way to work.

DUBLIN have been rocked by the news Conal Keaney is out of tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Limerick after damaging his knee in a motor accident yesterday.

DEFENDING champion Alan Dunbar hopes his batteries will be recharged when he tees it up at Royal Dublin this morning and takes on six of his fellow Walker Cup squad members in the Irish Amateur Open.

THE family of Gussie Hornibrook may never find out who murdered him.

THE governor of Limerick prison has issued an urgent appeal to the HSE to restore much needed psychiatric services to inmates.

A KEEN young sportsman who was worried about his mortgage repayments was caught with the biggest seizure of heroin ever made in Cork city and yesterday he was given a suspended six-year jail sentence.

FUNDS raised for the Fianna Fáil party were diverted into an account administered by businessman Tim Collins — the only signatory until earlier this year when two joint treasurers were appointed, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

THE consultant psychiatrist who suffered horrific wounds when a patient went on a rampage at a Limerick day hospital on Thursday was still critical but stable last night.

A GRIEVING family has lodged a complaint with the Bishop of Cork and Ross about a priest’s handling of a funeral.

Rose Martin reports on St Anne’s Hydro which has a rich history.

YOU won’t need marbles in your mouth to hit the right tone at St Anne’s, a Marble Hall Park home located just at the start of the Douglas and Ballinlough roads in Cork city.

TWO cemeteries in an historic inner city area will be opened as public parks within weeks.

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FOLLOWING Education Minister Mary Hanafin’s recent announcement of her department’s plan to build/refurbish/extend 122 schools — the bulk of them primary — we await her announcement of the next three promises on the list.

SEEN from sea, it could be the Cote d’Azur or the Miami shoreline but the location is Bray, Co Wicklow, on the Irish Sea.

I WAS delighted to read Michael McAuliffe's letter referring to St Anne's Shandon (Irish Examiner, February 18).

WORLD number one Annika Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam when she won her first Weetabix Women’s British Open yesterday with a final-round 70 at Royal Lytham and St Anne’s.

The European Union has pledged €10.6m towards the regeneration of communities affected by recent sectarian violence in north Belfast.