People take names seriously. Too seriously? Perhaps, but then names are serious business

A new book by Professor Des Fitzgerald of UCC's Radical Humanities Laboratory ranges over assumptions about the modern urban experience

The prospect of accepting a name change for the stadium if sponsors want it sets a very dangerous precedent, one with a commercial rather than an emotional basis

You’re aware of the Páirc Uí Chaoimh controversy by now, even if you’re not a sports fan or a resident of Cork.

When Cork loses different outlets, shops, and businesses, it diminishes the experience of living here

Is there a case for calling a halt to the event centre altogether?

The Fireman's Rest, now returned to its former glory, is the very definition of local heritage, an heirloom of the past that may have outlived its specific use but still retains the power to make us consider times long past

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For the season that's in it, Michael Moynihan has gathered the 12 icons of Christmas in Cork that can rival its more inebriated relative the 12 pubs of Christmas.

Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before, as Morrissey said many years ago. Out and about, taking a stroll after the tea, when something looms from the gloom — a cyclist, a jogger, a very fast pedestrian — and zooms past you.