The project now needs to be retendered, representing a further blow to the controversial centre which has been dogged by price overruns and delays

Lynx-eyed readers may have noticed from the paper this last week that I was in the US recently.

A hotel frequented by many a US president over the decades retains its reputation as the centre of Washington’s political life

Three years ago, the USA’s centre of democracy was hijacked in an extraordinary fashion — is a repeat on the way?

In Trump world, factors such as economic indicators, never mind fitness for office, are immaterial. The personality is all that matters to the cult, writes Michael Moynihan

The collapse in western civilisation’s long-held ethical system is due to the corrosive effect of a simple mindset: the world revolves around me

A chronic shortage of bus drivers has led to cuts to services on five Cork City routes from next month

Having another large, accessible public space in the centre of town would be handy right now

It’s a mammy and daddy night, and that it makes the city very friendly and there’s a good sense of wellbeing

The under-resourcing of gardaí in Cork tipped into the realm of the farcical when dozens of gardaí were sent to Paris to help police the Olympics