A teenager admitted wrapping a neck chain around his fist to cause more injury to a man he was assaulting at a fast-food restaurant in Cork city.

The assault happened shortly after 9pm close to the junction with Academy Street on Thursday night.

Turning on the style in the bedroom, bathroom and beyond, Esther N McCarthy suggests ways of making everything mellow yellow in your home this spring.

FOR many Corkonians of a certain vintage, pizza was ‘born’ in the very early ’80s, in Pizzaland on Patrick St, arriving near-simultaneously with next-door neighbour Burgerland, both ‘game-changers’ in the city’s fast-food dining culture.

Gay neighbours are good for property values, the first research of its kind in Ireland suggests.

A gambler snatched €40,000 of diamond engagement rings from a jewellers in Fermoy, Co Cork.

Those heading to the capital today for the parade or to attend the All-Ireland club finals in Croke Park should make allowances for traffic and transport disruptions arising from today’s parade when travelling to Dublin.

A young man faces Christmas in prison for stealing a purse containing €20 from a hairdresser’s.

The parents of a girl with an exceptionally rare medical condition have said the extreme kindness of the public has funded “life-changing” renovations to their family home.

The rebuilding of Limerick City centre advanced to a new stage yesterday with the commencement of the planning process for another huge segment of the urban renewal plan.

THREE retail-based Cork city investments, worth a combined €3 million-plus and each promising a yield of c.8.25% come to the open market this week with Cushman & Wakefield, pitched at private investors, and to those in search of pension income.

Construction has begun on a 100,000sq ft office development in Limerick city centre — kickstarting the €500m Limerick 2030 economic plan.

Funeral arrangements are being prepared for devoted teenage sweethearts Gary Kelly and Delia Keary after they both lost their lives following a head-on road collision, last Friday.

A man who viciously assaulted a garda, punching her in the face and spitting in her mouth, has been jailed for 11 months.

A young man who was wanted for a vicious assault in the city centre was arrested and brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

A vicious, unprovoked assault was inflicted on a man walking home through Cork City centre at 9.30pm on October 4.

The search for new restaurant outlets in Cork city centre is seeing new arrivals cannibalise older traders and throws up lifespan questions for some long-established eating houses.

A 40-year-old Cork man deliberately stole perfume in the hope of getting a jail sentence in a desperate attempt to get off heroin.

Don’t mind the Downward Dog, try the Downward Lion with this very cool Misaki Kawai yoga mat, €25 from Tiger Stores, Patrick St and Mahon Point, Cork, www.tiger-stores.ie 

If you’ve never taken part in the Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon before this year, you’re in for a real treat. If you have, you’ll know know that it’s going to be a great day.

A garda had two fingers stuffed up his nose as he was caught in a headlock by a motorist, and yesterday the accused was put on a 12-month probation bond.

A canopy-style roof on a public section of Waterford’s city centre is part of a €17.3m urban renewal programme due to begin next month.

A first-time offender will not serve any extra jail time for a nightclub ‘glassing’ assault, despite an appeal by prosecutors which raised “significant issues”.

A new CCTV system is to be installed in a north Cork town while increased surveillance has been earmarked for another location, following grants administered by Cork County Council from a towns development fund.

A garda had two fingers stuffed up his nose as he was caught in a headlock by a motorist who parked his car blocking a side street off Cork city centre.

Investment property activity is continuing through to year’s end in and around Cork city centre streets by the Penneys site, which is expected to go forward for planning permission next month for a major redevelopment, after a two-year site assembly

A Co Sligo woman who stole a hat and gloves on a visit to Cork claimed that she goes a bit crazy once a month and did not know what she is doing.

For the majority of people, running a marathon is a daunting prospect, but for Cork resident Michael Haydon, aged 62, one marathon just isn’t enough.

The biggest 10-year real estate project in a city centre, outside of Dublin, was given the go-ahead in Limerick yesterday.

The Irish Examiner’s image desk have dipped into our archive and put together an image collection which reveals a truly unique picture of Cork’s past.

The great and the good were in City Hall on Friday night. Tux-clad, I sneaked in to join more than 1,000 others representing a large slice of political and business life in Cork City and county.

Shoppers who thought it was safe to go back into the city centre after the January sale scrums were caught out by a line of scrimmage of a different kind, as Cork’s busiest thoroughfare hosted a flashmob American Football match.

As Christmas looms, all of us will have to think about ideas and ambitions for 2015. Cities, including Cork, should do the same.

Limerick City and County Council has got its naughty lingerie in a twist after spending €90,000 in a failed attempt to "sex down" a city centre site.

The magic of ‘the night before Christmas’ will come to life for children visiting the festive wonderland at Cork’s Bishop Lucey park this winter.

Billed as Cork City’s "last great retail site of note", a plot of more than half an acre on St Patrick’s St and Grand Parade — including the Capitol Cinema site and Central Shoe Stores — goes for sale next week.

A new book on the meaning of life by UCC lecturer Dr Catherine Conlon got us thinking.