A leading elderly rights campaigner has called for more targeted supports to help vulnerable older people through the coronavirus crisis.

A series of 14 ‘State-specific’ guides, providing practical tips and advice to Irish firms seeking to establish business in the USA for the first time, is currently being compiled and published by the American Chamber of Commerce.

One of the oldest buildings at University College Cork (UCC) has opened for the first time as a state of the art, one-stop-shop for students following a multi-million euro transformation.

TWELVE years after the Irish property, construction, and economic crash, work is finally set to start on the very first non-student apartment development of any scale in Cork City in that time period, in an investment put at €40m.

Eve Kelliher checks out a Cork city apartment with a central location.

More homeless people will die unless the Government increases its efforts to tackle the crisis, a frontline charity worker has warned.

Participants and organisers at dance classes in Cork Migrant Centre tell Ellie O’Byrne how it’s a win-win set-up for all concerned

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has warned that the ongoing uncertainty over Brexit is making it "very difficult to plan" future Garda strategies.

Five things too look out for the week ahead with Des O'Driscoll

Outside the Glucksman, in the grounds of UCC, a curious clock is on display.

A new exhibition in UCC has artists responding to the Tuam Babies scandal and the situation at Bessborough, writes Donal O’Keeffe

As we move towards autumn, people everywhere are remarking how magnificent trees look this year.

Cyclists must have greater input into the design of cycling infrastructure, Cork's city councillors have said after getting first-hand experience of life in the bike lanes.

A charity which supports cancer patients and their families through treatment says it is still working with the HSE to help fund its €1.6m relocation to a new and larger premises.

The Government has defended the arrangements of a public meeting on climate change, despite complaints that the public was not told where or when it was taking place.

FOR many of us, it’s hard to imagine a time when television wasn’t a fixture in our living rooms.

Einstein’s theory of gravity was tested 100 years ago tomorrow, but what may be less well known is the Irish connection with this seminal event.

Stretching as far south as Ballygarvan and as far west as Ballincollig, the new Cork South-West local electoral area is, by quite a margin, the most populous constituency in the redrawn Cork City.

A probiotic strain first discovered at UCC appears to improve the ability to respond and cope with stress.

Cork City South Central was previously a small electoral area but it represents a very different proposition after the expansion of the city boundary.

Cork - a city full of history, culture and identity, and a city with so much more potential.

MaREI marine research institute, in UCC, is hosting an event entitled ‘Collaboration Opportunities for a Thriving Maritime Economy’ on Thursday, May 2, in the UCC Centre for Executive Education, 1 Lapps Quay, Cork.

A meeting will be held in UCC tomorrow to plan for special centenary commemorations of the War of Independence and Civil War.

The collaboration between Aidan Coffey and the late Séamus Creagh was founded in Cork and survived for many years over long distances, writes Pet O’Connell

The changing nature of work will bring great opportunities but also risks, Ibec has said ahead of a UCC and CIT-partnered conference.

It was a rocky road to introduce the ‘Pana car ban’ in Cork City. However, even tougher choices are needed over the next 10 years if the city is to avoid being crippled by congestion, writes Eoin English.

One of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars, the Rendezvous, has changed hands, for close to €1.5 million.

Oonagh Kearney is a film-maker from Ballintemple in Cork. A former pupil of the Ursuline Convent in Blackrock, she also studied at the National Film and Television School in London. Her latest short film, the 24-minute Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect my Brain, shows as part of the ‘Best of Cork’ presentation at Cork Film Festival on Sunday, Nov 18, at the Everyman.

The long-anticipated sale by Nama of €300m in property portfolio loans, associated with a number of O’Callaghan Properties (OCP) assets in Cork, has been welcomed by the company itself as “very positive” and could bring fresh and further investor activity to the city.

By the time Ireland tips off this evening against Norway in the FIBA Women’s European Championships for Small Countries (Mardyke, 6.15pm), team manager Grace O’Sullivan will have most of her work done.

Irish coach Mark Scannell admits the pressure is on to deliver Basketball’s European Championships for Small Countries in Cork next month — even though he suspects the hosts are third favourites at best.

There are 470 asylum seekers who have been granted refugee status in Ireland but who are unable to leave direct provision centres because there is nowhere else for them to go.