Cladding samples from 27 high-rise buildings in 15 local authorities have failed safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the Government has said.

Towering ambition, Munster passion and a long-proven New York track record in building skyscrapers and working on Manhattan’s ‘Ground Zero’ rebuild are behind soaring plans for an extraordinary Irish site that’s been dubbed “the key to Cork’s docklands future”, writes Tommy Barker.

Update: 10am: Thirty firefighters are reported to have been killed when a burning building in the capital of Iran collapsed.

Visitors on board Brighton's i360 tower were left stranded in mid-air for more than two hours after it broke down.

A price drop this month after a pre-Christmas launch on the big, big seven-bed home named Belvedere House by Muskerry Golf Club just south of Tower near Blarney has kick-started bidding on this golf clubhouse-sized property.

SET on a south-facing slope between Tower and Blarney, a short spin out of Cork city and a 15-minute commute back to Apple HQ with its thousands of jobs, is Shournagh Drive, named after a local river, and where the detached number 13 is now for sale.

Someone had a lot of time on his hands lately and put it to misuse by building a 17-tier tower of plastic cups and toilet paper over his ‘drunk’ friend.

At its first showing on Monday this detached house at 70 Primrose Hill in Tower and near Blarney got an offer of €5,000 in excess of the asking price of €195,000.

There are two sources of viewing interest being shown in this clean, modern Tower, Co Cork, bungalow, and they are more or less at far ends of the age scale.