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

Cork in the 1970s was a smaller, shabbier one maybe, but also a friendly and inquisitive city

The maintenance of the new wayfinding scheme worries me, particularly when you see what happened with maintenance of the old system

Music makes emotional connections anyway — but a place like Music Zone leverages those connections in an organic way