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The opening of the new Cork Cancer Centre at the Bons Secours Hospital will allow cancer teams on both sides of the Atlantic to consult each other on cases.

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Homeless campaigner, Father Peter McVerry is to visit Cork Penny Dinners in the City Centre later this morning.

He'll see the homeless service's new housing project and kitchen facilities on Little Hanover Street.

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University College Cork is one of the country's top colleges with students from affluent backgrounds.

That's according to a new Higher Education Authority report.

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The Housing Minister is being urged to activate the Cold Weather Initiative for the homeless and for rough sleepers.

Last night temperatures plummeted below freezing in many parts of the country.

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The Stormont Assembly will sit for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years today. 

However it's just a symbolic move, because it can't fulfil its function without a powersharing executive in place.

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