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The main stories making the headlines across Cork this morning

It has taken an ambulance at least an hour to arrive at a life-threatening emergency 123 times this year. 
According to details released under the Freedom of Information Act, 20 of the cases were in Cork

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"A bad week for Cork"
That's how the Business Minister Heather Humphreys described the decision by Novartis to axe 320 jobs at their Ringaskiddy plant over the next three years

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Two addresses in Northern Ireland have been searched by police investigating the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a lorry.
The 25 year-old driver - who's from County Armagh - is still being questioned.
The bodies were discovered in a trailer in Essex which arrived from Belgium yesterday morning.


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A man remains in custody in Dublin after a car drove into another vehicle outside the City West Shopping Centre.
It happened at around half five yesterday evening and Gardaí believe it was a deliberate crash.

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