Gardaí have launched an investigation after a viable pipe bomb found in the garden of a house was wheeled in a pram through housing estates to a Garda station.

A potential buyer has emerged for a failed waste firm at the centre of a sit-in protest which has closed with losses of some €2m and 25 jobs.

A father and son who were involved in an incident where a car clamper had his hand fractured near their place of business were both convicted and fined yesterday.

Cork city centre has lost more than 3,500 jobs in the last five years to out-of-city locations, a report has found.