GARDAI in Cork are seeking assistance in tracing a missing 15-yearold. Christina O'Flynn from Sandymount Court, Pope's Road has been missing since Tuesday.

She is 5ft 3in, slim build, sallow/tanned skin and long curly black hair. She is believed to be travelling in a black Opel Astra, registration 95-C-4220.

Contact Watercourse Road on 021 4558260 or any garda station with information.

Man (29) killed on building site

A MAN died following a workplace accident in Castleisland, Co Kerry at around 4pm on Friday afternoon. Tom Mitchell (29) from Currow was working on a building site when a trench collapsed on top of him. Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority have launched separate investigations into the incident and gardai are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.

Man charged with Longford murder

A 19-YEAR-OLD man is to receive medical and psychological treatment after being remanded in custody charged with the murder of mother-of-two Sharon Coughlan (37).

David Brozovsky, with an address at Ardnacassa, Co Longford, appeared at Longford District Court charged with the murder.

Coughlan's body was found in a derelict house on Great Water St eight days ago. Brozovsky, originally from the Czech Republic, was remanded in custody to St Patrick's Institution.

Clarification

FURTHER to last week's article on Meningitis Awareness Week, we have been asked by the Meningitis Research Foundation to make the following clarifications: So far this year, six children have died from meningitis including five as a result of the Men B strain. About 300 people a year contract meningitis in Ireland; 300 people do not die from it, as was reported. There is no vaccine against the Men B strain of meningitis. The vaccine that will be introduced into the routine childhood immunisation schedule some time in 2008 is the pneumococcal vaccine.

Men C vaccine, and not Men A vaccine, has been routinely offered to children in Ireland since 2000 and has seen great success, reducing cases caused by Men C by 96%.