What do you get when you mix red-hot jazz with the fiery characters of Cork, and the unique surge of Guinness?

Teenage leaders will conduct a major survey on youth suicide in Cork during a showcase event in the city tomorrow as part of a wider campaign to expand specialist suicide support training to over 16s.

The promoters of last weekend’s All Together Now festival, along with gardaí and Waterford City Council, are to undertake a review of the event’s traffic management after the roads approaching the site came to a standstill for hours on Friday.

Sweltering heat may not be the best time to be thinking about raingear, but a Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture arts project has issued an open call for people to do just that.

We need to take action to save Ireland’s starving bees

Trigon Hotel Group is recruiting, with openings available in a wide rage of fields in all three of its Cork properties, Cork Airport Hotel, The Metropole Hotel and Cork International Hotel.

Hopes of luring top fishermen to an international shark fishing competition off east Cork have been sunk, despite a €250,000 prize fund.

Leo Cullen always strikes you as a man who’d forget to buy a lottery ticket on the week his numbers came up, then reply that he’d at least saved two euro in the process.

"I didn’t think I’d be here, to be honest, at the start of the year.”

More than 1,000 musicians from 20 countries will perform at this year’s Cork Guinness Jazz Festival, which is expected to generate €35m for the local economy.

Top theatre companies will “grasp the nettle” of gender discrimination by ensuring workers are fully protected from unwanted advances, and guaranteeing half of all new plays are written by women.

Over 470,000 children have taken part in a national competition launched 14 years ago that encourages them to stay safe on the roads.

The festival, officially known as the Féile, was Ireland’s first ever multi-day music festival and took place at Semple Stadium from 1990 to 1994.

President Michael D Higgins said he was “concerned and upset” when the Vatican barred former president Mary McAleese from taking part in a conference.

Tuam babies campaigner Catherine Corless has hit out at the Government for focusing “on cost” rather than committing to a full forensic excavation, exhumation, and DNA testing of the remains at the Tuam site.

2,700 cyclists attended hospital with injuries received in road accidents in Ireland in 2015 and 2016. That’s nearly four a day, according to figures released by the HSE.

As it prepares to launch into its second century as an Irish company, Henry Ford & Son Ltd is refusing to let the grass grow under its feet.

Máire Falvey has enjoyed playing golf for 48 years but Saturday morning in Malone Golf Club ranks amongst her proudest moments.

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

The dramatic resignation of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister yesterday has thrown the North’s power-sharing administration into chaos.

Ostensibly booming pre-Christmas retail sales data capped a good week for the economy, as surveys on the services industry and start-ups pointed to a good start for 2017.

It is heartening to see the spirit of that ‘Don’t Turf it Out’ campaign still endures. At least some of the 100-year-old papers, photographs and documents that might have ended up in skips have been preserved, writes Clodagh Finn.

A technique used to detect damage to underwater marine structures has been adapted to spot cancer in breast cell images.

Ireland’s Olympic rowing heroes have urged teenagers to have absolute “confidence and belief” in themselves as they pursue their dreams.

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The HSE and Tusla are to be called in for questioning after it emerged another young person was left in a foster home despite allegations of sexual abuse against a carer in the home.

There could be good news for gas customers.

A united Ireland could result in a near €36bn boost to the island’s economy within eight years of unification, according to a study.

Cooperation and common programmes are the key to avoiding burnout and fatigue in the GAA, says a leading figure in strength and conditioning.

More than a third of Irish students feel “down” every day and most of them find comfort in food, a new study shows.

Chart-topping DJs, country legends and comedians are set to take centre stage at Cork Opera House over the coming months, with a sprinkle of Christmas panto magic thrown in for good measure.

Colin Keane, now a clear second behind Pat Smullen in the Jockeys Championship race, provided his boss Ger Lyons with a first and last race double on Mint Chai and Chapter Seven in Bellewstown last night.

Nearly 1,500 Australians and 400 New Zealanders will be VIPs tomorrow when they land in Ireland on part of a round-the-world cruise.

Ireland’s attractively low rate of corporate taxation is once again under pressure with the recent release of the European Commission’s new action plan to tackle tax avoidance.

One of Ireland’s top mountain guides has launched what’s being billed as one of the toughest and most exhilarating outdoor challenges ever staged in an Irish mountain range.

Many of us can only dream of jetting off to a remote destination but for one Cork man, this dream could soon become a reality.

President Michael D Higgins yesterday joined Britain’s Prince Charles and Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan at commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle on the Gallipoli peninsula.

Thankfully, unlike the farcical officiating at the Etihad, the ref at St James’ Park on Saturday didn’t thoroughly spoil the spectacle for the watching millions, by sending the wrong player off in the opening seconds.

Cork will host the country’s first maritime festival, with industry workshops and a family fun day, which Minister for the Marine Simon Coveney hopes will one day become an event to rival the National Ploughing Championships.

St Patrick’s Day, inextricably linked with excessive drinking and anti-social behaviour, is undergoing something of a rebranding. 

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the attacks in Paris last week were an assault not only on the people of Europe but also on people’s basic values of freedom and democracy.

As the French hostage crisis came to a bloody end last night with the loss of 20 lives, al-Qaeda claimed it had directed the attack against the satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in Paris "as revenge for the honour" of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.