Your Wednesday morning news round-up

Clarion Hotel in Cork is for sale with a €30 million pricetag; Cork seek new leader as Brian Cuthbert to step down; and wildlife lovers plague hunter dentist Walter Palmer’s practice with angry Yelp.com reviews. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

Wed, 29 Jul, 2015 - 01:00

TOP STORY

PTSB failures expose weak controls

Senior opposition politicians said the failures at Permanent TSB that led to mortgage customers losing their homes and saw financial hardship inflicted on many others has once again put the spotlight on soft controls over the banking industry here.

IRELAND

210 cases of child sex abuse in schools eligible for compensation scheme

Some 210 cases of alleged child sex abuse in schools are eligible for compensation under a Department of Education scheme.

Clarion Hotel for sale with €30 million pricetag

With a price tag of €30m-plus, Cork City’s Clarion Hotel is the most valuable Irish hotel outside of Dublin to come to the open market since the economic downturn.

Village row over plans for Blarney's 250th birthday

A row has erupted in one of Ireland’s best-known tourist villages over plans to mark its 250th birthday.

SPORT

Cork seek new leader as Brian Cuthbert to step down

Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert will not seek re-appointment for a third year at the helm following last weekend’s championship exit at the hands of Kildare.

Mike Quirke: Cork must banish crutches and excuses

Legendary American college football coach Nick Saban once said: “Championship teams have to be resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity”.

Irish sprinter Ciara Neville strikes gold in Tbilisi

Ciara Neville won gold yesterday in the 100m final at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia.

WORLD

Cecil the lion: Wildlife lovers plague hunter dentist's practice with angry Yelp.com reviews

Walter Palmer, still being sought in connection with Cecil’s death, is facing calls for his business to be boycotted.

Prison worker faces jail for New York prison escape plot

A northern New York prison worker has admitted to smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run.

ANALYSIS

Irish Water: Utility a persistent unmitigated disaster

Irish Water has run from one controversy to another but now things have got a whole lot worse, writes political reporter Juno McEnroe.

LIFESTYLE

Girl Power: Organising days and nights out for women through Facebook

Girls just don’t need a boy, they also want new friends to have a laugh with, says Paula Burns, as she checks out a Facebook page organising days and nights out for women.

EXAMVIRAL

Angry writers take to Twitter to reveal the most annoying things people ALWAYS say to them

You may think that the life of a writer is all head-in-the-clouds, moody walks to pin down the plot, and the occasional cheery book signing.

WATCH: Men react to video of their girlfriends being catcalled

The US edition of Cosmopolitan decided to give three men an insight into what their girlfriends experience when they walk down the streets of New York by themselves.

TECHNOW

GAMING

MOVIES

TECH

BUSINESS

Twitter revenue grows sharply, but user growth stays low

Twitter has failed to add users at a quick enough pace for investors in the second quarter, even as revenue grew sharply.

€4.5bn valuation for Limerick brothers’ Stripe

An online payments start-up founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison is continuing its rapid Silicon Valley ascent with another round of funding that values the company at $5 billion (€4.52bn).

SHOWBIZ

Want to own a bit of Tom Cruise? Well now you can, sort of...

It is one of the most famous scenes in modern movie history and now film fans can bid for the outfit worn by Tom Cruise when his character was suspended from the ceiling in an audacious heist in Mission: Impossible.