Local Cork News

• They called me Rose July 29, 2010
  A Cork woman who was forced to work in the Good Shepherd Magdalene Asylum in Sunday's Well has spoken up about how she felt trapped in the silent ironing room. Peggy Coughlin was born in County Cork to an unmarried mother in 1946. She and her mother lived in a hospital for four years before Peggy was fostered locally. […]
• Govt investment programme going 'wrong way' July 29, 2010
  The revised investment package launched by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, TD this week has been dismissed by a Cork TD as "the wrong way to get the economy back on track". Fine Gael TD, Simon Coveney, said that cutting €1bn of investment from the capital investment programme was the wrong way t go and that the new programme would not lead to increases […]
• Sale of Cork Airport 'would be a backward step' - TD July 29, 2010
  Despite causing concern among Cork politicians, the sale of Cork Airport has been described as "unlikely" and a "backward step" by Fianna Fail TD, Michael McGrath. A review group established by the government to look into the potential sale of state assets is investigating the privatisation of the airport. […]