Gardaí believe they have found what could be “the mother lode” of a potentially lethal drug which may already have claimed the lives of two young men.

TULLIG, WEST CORK €195,000

A NEW €58 million palliative care centre and hospital was officially opened yesterday in Cork following the successful transfer of patients from the facility’s previous home on the northside of the city.

THE previously extended, four-bed semi-d at ‘Cherrygrove’, 6, The Rise on the edge of Cork’s Bishopstown has an asking price of €390,000.

A GOOD, light modern makeover has been given to 41, The Rise, a four-bed semi-d in Cork city’s Bishopstown suburb.

A LANDLORD’S rental income has dropped so much that he is unable to meet mortgage repayments on a €1.5 million loan, a court was told yesterday.

CEANN Comhairle John O’Donoghue has intensified my feeling of disgust with politicians in this country.

GAA legend Jimmy Barry Murphy has backed bikers hoping to raise money for a new €75 million cancer hospice in Cork.

BEING environmentally conscious, I am pleased to see the Government is to take action to discourage needless use of SUVs and other cars with larger engines.

ANYONE buying in the million euro category in the Greater Cork area should give Foxwood House in Waterfall a viewing.

OUT of the way of the Waterfall Road/Curraheen Road rat-run in Cork, this house at 8 Halldene has a lot going for it.

PROPERTIES in Bishopstown are always in demand and good, trading-up properties like this one in the Dunville Estate on the Waterfall Road, are scarce.

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a 100-bedroom hotel and 66 houses in Co Cork have been turned down, but Marymount Hospice has received permission to build a 129-bed hospital.

A THIRD of an acre site in Bishopstown, and a four-bedroomed detached property just a minute from the South Link - rare indeed.

IS it the end for West End?

Eight men appeared in court in Belfast today charged with belonging to the outlawed loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.