• Telecom to offer public up to £1bn in shares

  Up to £1 billion worth of Telecom Eireann shares are likely to be offered to the public when the company is floated on the stock market in late June or early July.

• Doctor banned in Canada working in Cork hospital

  A Consultant psychiatrist working at Bantry General Hospital has described as a travesty of justice, proceedings in Canada which resulted in him being found guilty of medical misconduct. This arose from charges that he had an improper sexual relationship with a woman patient.

• Bodies of shooting victims taken from school

  The bodies of 15 shooting victims were removed from a school in Littleton, Colorado, last night after delays due to fears of booby-trapped explosive devices still in the building and grounds in the aftermath of one of the worst mass shootings in US history.

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