Knocking down and replacing isn’t anything at all new in Ireland’s house market, and especially so in rising and buoyant markets (current tail-end 2018 economic jitters notwithstanding,) all the more so again in strong, ‘bullet-proof’ locations.

Des O’Driscoll looks back on the strange set of circumstances that led to the founding of the festival in 1978.

A strange set of circumstances led Jim Mountjoy to suggest a jazz festival for Cork in 1978. Little did he know how his idea would snowball, writes Des O’Driscoll

Thanks to Des O’Driscoll (Arts, June 13) for his very interesting article on Cork City’s music scene, reminding us of the history of Cork’s Arcadia Ballroom, as it was initially known.

SIX professors of paediatrics opposed to the selection of the Mater Hospital as the site for a new national children’s hospital have publicly challenged the right of their representative body to say it endorses the project.

I ENJOYED Ray Fitzgerald’s letter headlined ‘Great bands echo down the years’ (August 8) about the proposed ‘Walk of Fame’ outside the old Arcadia ballroom in Cork.

Great to hear of the proposed Walk of Fame in recognition of the showbands (Irish Examiner, July 18).