The Youghal Track Supporters Association claims there is “major misinformation” in an Indecon consultancy report recommending closure of the east Cork resort’s greyhound stadium.

The case of a woman who was accused of witchcraft in Co Cork and prosecuted at a sensational trial in 1661 forms the plot of a new opera by the acclaimed avant-garde composer, Raymond Deane.

A returned east Cork emigrant is to open an innovative Lego-driven STEM education centre in his home town.

The 2,300 men and women taking part in Ireland’s first ever Ironman think they are built for the long haul — but the event’s host town of Youghal is well ahead of them in the staying power stakes.

There will be some disruption and delays as East Cork hosts Ireland’s first full-distance Ironman this weekend but the regional benefits will be immense in the long-run.

The international sporting cavalcade is the biggest thing to hit the East Cork town since ‘Moby Dick’, writes Christy Parker

Some of the cabling for the part of the €930m Celtic Interconnector, from France to Ireland, may run along the former Midleton-Youghal railway.

A couple who were left traumatised when a car hit their home last year say they live in constant fear of speeding traffic on their narrow street.

Ferocious tides and violent storms have literally rolled back the sands of time to disclose evidence of a vast forest floor dating thousands of years beneath a Youghal beach.

An environmental campaigner has successfully challenged the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency to alter the details of a licence governing the discharge of sewage in East Cork.

A heroin ‘runner’ in Youghal caught with €3,800 worth of the drug in his jacket pocket has been jailed for 18 months.

Cork county councillors have voted unanimously to turn the former Midleton-Youghal railway line into a leisure facility for cyclists and walkers.

A snake has been rescued after slithering up on a beach in County Cork.

Eight wooden panels, bearing the names of a town’s war dead, will be blessed in a historic church next weekend.

It will be the retailer's 23rd store in Cork and its 135th in Ireland.

Christy Parker hears how the disused line between Youghal and Midleton should be restored as a rail link rather than made into a featureless greenway

Gardaí have arrested a man in his 20s and seized around €32,000 worth of cannabis herb in Co. Cork yesterday.

An East Cork seaside town could be the preferred landfall for a new €930m submarine cable between Ireland and France, which will carry electricity and telecommunications links between the two countries.

The Cosey, Broadway, The Arch — names that evoke recollections of bygone nights at the silver screen have been resurrected for a special documentary on cinema-going memories of movie fans in rural Cork towns, writes Joe Leogue

Over the weekend over 500 children competed in the Munster Surf Lifesaving competition.

Businesses in an east Cork town say a street renovation scheme in the town centre timed to coincide with the peak summer season may result in closures or job cuts.

Gardaí in east Cork are continuing investigations into a fire that gutted a large section of a derelict hotel.

A Garda investigation is underway after a freak car crash left a house at risk of collapse.

Gardaí were investigating yesterday after a teen was taken to hospital with head injuries after reportedly being attacked with a hurley on a Co Cork beach.

Cork mother-of-nine Keely Jones is currently living on a beach in Youghal with her family after being unable to find accommodation.

Cruise and angling operators along the Blackwater in east Cork yesterday claimed that they are losing business while a recently-installed €350,000 harbour pontoon remains closed.

Montmorenci House, one of East Cork’s residential gems, has history, class, charisma and character. Its uniqueness makes it hard to value.

Marine tourism has been given a boost as a new pontoon is installed in Youghal harbour.

One of Co Cork’s premier sandy beaches is in danger of being blown away unless works are carried out soon.

The husband of missing woman Tina Satchwell says he will take a lie detector test when he feels up to it.

The last bagpipes used by a legendary founder of Youghal Pipe Band have been discovered accidentally, 34 years after his death, by his great grandson and grand-nephew.

Joe Leogue revisits the Tina Satchwell missing person case as today marks six months since the last reported sighting of the Youghal woman.  

Carrigaline has the lowest level of commercial vacant buildings among Cork towns while Youghal has the highest, according to research from Ireland’s only complete database of commercial and residential buildings.

There have been no confirmed sightings of missing Cork woman Tina Satchwell since the day she went missing, gardaí have confirmed.

Waterford supporters trawling for the upper hand in next weekend’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final have resorted to very fishy tactics in Youghal with an audacious attack on a replica of Moby Dick.

A blind disability rights campaigner has endorsed an east Cork heritage attraction as “the most recommendable museum for visually impaired people” he ever visited.

The husband of a missing Cork woman has said that he is willing to take a lie detector test to prove he wasn’t involved in her disappearance.

Trish Dromey hears No 4 Pilmore Cottages is attracting big interest. 

There is character aplenty on offer in this pristine period home by the sea, writes Tommy Barker.

Seafarers, beach lovers and families looking for a detached coastal home under the €250,000 mark should train their radar on 1, Island View.

A man involved in a violent disorder incident in Youghal, Co Cork, had the balance of an 18-month jail sentence suspended on condition he would stay away from a housing estate where the offence occurred.

A father, whose three-year-old son drowned, was told the children using the hotel’s kids’ club should wait for armbands to be given out by staff, an inquest heard.

Update 2pm: A body has been found during a search for a missing 22-year-old in Youghal.

A landmark heritage building, magnificently restored, has been reopened to the public.

Trish Dromey finds a gardener’s dream tucked away inside the historic thirteenth century core of Youghal.

The owners of this renovated Youghal home bought it to fit their 350-year-old door, writes Trish Dromey.

“Sometimes I wonder if I’ve become tougher having seen cruelty regularly in this job for the past nine years — but what I saw in this case absolutely broke my heart.”