Fifteen closure orders were served on food businesses in October for breaches of food safety legislation.

The planned €4.5m upgrading of an East Cork seaside town’s main drainage system has been renegotiated so the project won’t impact on the town’s peak tourist season.

LEAVING the tourist office, we go left, along the waterfront. Scilly hamlet, with its imposing old buildings on the shore, is seen across the water or exposed mud flats of the Inner Harbour.

Thyme Strand Street, Athlone 090-6478850; thymerestaurant.ie

A SERIES of value-driven public auction and private treaty clearances are coming out of the traps with selling agents Downing Commercial and they include five houses, in varying stages of construction on three acres with FPP for 15 dwellings, guiding €70,000.

A 54-year-old GP has brought a High Court challenge aimed at halting his prosecution on charges that he sexually assaulted one woman and indecently assaulted two others.

The manager of a Credit Union in Co Cork has been granted a temporary injunction preventing his dismissal regarding allegations of bullying.

A young Dublin man who stabbed a first year college student’s arm with a broken bottle leaving him with a permanent disability has been jailed for five years.

A young Dublin man who stabbed a first year college student’s arm with a broken bottle leaving him with a permanent disability will be sentenced later with three other youths.

ALEXANDER WETTERHALL (Sweden Team Sprocket Pro) left many of the big names scratching their heads in wonderment after he built on his midweek escape to claim overall victory in the FBD Insurance Rás which concluded before a huge crowd that turned out in glorious sunshine in Skerries yesterday.

Alexander Wetterhall (Sweden Team Sprocket Pro) left many of the big names scratching their heads in wonderment after he built on his midweek escape to claim overall victory in the FBD Insurance Rás which concluded before a huge crowd that turned out in glorious sunshine in Skerries today.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland issued two closure orders on food businesses last month for breaching food safety legislation.

FOOD safety chiefs closed a cafe, take-away and a delicatessen food-maker following their latest round of hygiene checks.

UP TO 30 families were forced to flee their homes early yesterday when a blaze gutted a north Dublin shop.

Around 30 families have been evacuated from their homes in north Co Dublin while fire-fighters battle a huge blaze at a hardware store in the town.

THE public has been put in “grave and immediate danger” by shoddy food operators, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) warned yesterday.