As 597 admitted patients waited for a bed in the country's public acute hospitals this morning, Health Minister Simon Harris announced that up to 190 beds will be opened in the coming weeks.

In 2017, the team set a record in their Thunder Child boat for the circumnavigation of Ireland via Rockall, an islet 500km into the North Atlantic, one of the most dangerous seas on Earth.

AM a descendant of Owen Geary who lived in Cork city in the late 1700s and early 1800s. His wife was a Catherine McCarthy, and he was a member of St Finbarr’s RC South Chapel.