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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.

Lampooning a certain strand of artistic discourse is just another way to shoot fish in a barrel

Chatting to people on Leeside about what happened in Dublin revealed some interesting attitudes

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The council wants additional research. That means more costs, and all to establish something we all know. They’re a waste of money

David Goldberg asks who remembers his parents, Gerald and Sheila. In Cork, we never forget our own

The event centre is an embarrassment, a farrago of missed deadlines and shameful photo-opportunities, an indictment of those responsible

Great to see dolphins in the Lee a few days back.