The number of heart by-pass operations done at the Cork University Hospital between 1986 and 1996 was erroneously given in Southern Report on Tuesday, November 24th. The correct figure is 2,000.

The column "In Time's Eye" in yesterday's editions stated that Nelson Pillar was blown up on a Tuesday, March 3rd. In fact it was blown up on March 8th, 1966.

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