The spirit of murdered Lord Mayor of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain, was honoured last night as Cork officially embarked on its programme of 1920 commemorations.

As ‘Freshers’ Week’ gets underway at University College Cork (UCC), new information booklets encouraging students to respect their neighbours have been distributed to the surrounding areas of the university.

In the second of a five part series on the newly redrawn city boundaries, Kevin O’Neill profiles the constituency of Cork City South Central.

The President has unveiled a plaque to mark the birthplace of a Cork man who is revered in Venezuela as a liberator, but who remains largely anonymous here.

It is hoped predicted Beast from the East-style low temperatures won’t have a detrimental impact on the St Patrick’s Day parades which get under way around the country tomorrow.

Cork City Council is expected to discuss legal advice tonight after a challenge to the filling of a vacant seat.

The Labour Party has confirmed that it is the ‘interested party’ which has challenged the co-option process to fill a vacant seat on Cork City Council.

The co-option of an Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) member onto Cork City Council was dramatically deferred last night after a challenge emerged.

18 lord mayor have set aside party politics to unite against a super council and to spark public debate, says Eoin English

Eighteen former lords mayor of Cork have expressed “profound concerns” about the possible abolition of the city council as part of a major overhaul of the region’s local government structures.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has called for the removal of the LGBT community’s rainbow flag from above Cork’s City Hall ahead of next week’s referendum.

A woman sexually abused as a teenager by a former Lord Mayor of Cork has spoken out against his early release from prison tomorrow.

A last-minute power-sharing deal secured the election of Fianna Fáil Cllr Mary Shields as the new Lord Mayor of Cork last night.

Talks on the election of a new lord mayor of Cork and on city council voting arrangements look set to go down to the wire.

The Anti-Austerity Alliance Cork City councillor and grandmother Lil O’Donnell said a combination of anger at the shocking revelations in the Anglo tapes and the introduction of the water tax, compelled her to run for election.

The Labour Party has the material to rebuild but needs a new leader with the vision to maximise that potential, its Cork South Central TD Ciaran Lynch believes.

Sinn Féin are on course to have four MEPs on the island of Ireland after a resounding electoral success which also trebled their number of councillors.

A second day of counting in the European election gets under way today with a former minister awaiting a recount in a battle for a seat.

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Labour’s Catherine Clancy, was the most high-profile casualty in the city’s local elections carnage as her party was annihilated.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has conceded a major shift in Ireland’s political landscape after voters turned in their droves to anti-austerity candidates in European, local and by-elections.

By Eoin English

Cork City Council has agreed to repair the landmark Shandon Clock on the northside of the city.

A Munster-based charity which has raised €3.6m towards improving outcomes for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients at Cork University Hospital (CUH) has been honoured for its efforts.

Gardaí have gone to great lengths this week — the entire country, to be precise — to show how a little blood, sweat and tears can go a long way.

Bright, fun, futuristic and a little fantastic — just what the man who gave Fitzgerald Park its name would have appreciated.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross John Buckley has invited the boards of management of three Cork city schools to a meeting to try to diffuse the row over plans by one of the schools to start enrolling junior infants.

Cork’s Lord Mayor has urged parents and management at a school that wants to enrol junior infants to discuss any changes with other schools and avoid creating enemies.

Construction work on the first phase of a decade-long housing regeneration project on Cork’s northside is poised to begin.

Theatre: Twelfth Night

President Michael D Higgins said it was with “a great sense of humility and appreciation” that he had become the sixth Irish head of State to be bestowed with the Freedom of Cork City.

President Michael D Higgins has received the Freedom of Cork City.

A sell-out concert at Cork’s City Hall has helped to raise vital funds towards the recovery from a stroke of Evening Echo reporter Deirdre O’Reilly, herself a champion fundraiser for charity.

A potential buyer has emerged for a failed waste firm at the centre of a sit-in protest which has closed with losses of some €2m and 25 jobs.

The question of who will succeed Martin Callinan as Garda commissioner almost invariably prompts the answer that there’s only one man — or in this case, woman — for the job.

Cork has topped a list of under-rated cities that tourists should see in their lifetime.

A major fundraising concert is to be held for a mother of two children who helped collect €1m for various charities but who now needs help herself after suffering a debilitating stroke.

President Michael D Higgins is set to be made a Freeman of Cork.

Flatley reigned and then it poured — or was it the other way around?

A local authority meeting was interrupted twice last night when anti-water tax protestors refused to sit down in the upper gallery of Cork’s City Hall.

The trustees of Cork’s northside primary schools have been urged to consult properly before making any new proposals to deal with enrolment issues in the area.

Michael Flatley is Grand Marshal of this year’s Cork St Patrick’s Day parade.

The President saluted the resilience, backbone, and courage of the family-run businesses of Cork City centre during a walkabout yesterday of the areas worst hit by last week’s double flood.

The Government has committed to spend at least €50m on a flood defence scheme for Cork City, with preferred engineering options due to be published in July.