HAVING grown up in the idyllic Côte d’Azur town of Antibes, Yann Gonzalez’s journey to the Cannes Film Festival was a relatively short one.

Irish ambassador for European Code Week, which runs from Nov 25 to 30, Julie Cullen spoke to Vincent Ryan about her busy working day.

Kya deLongchamps looks ahead to the shades shining from the colour palettes of the top paint houses for 2014.

Kylie Minogue, Daisy Lowe, Date Winslet and Anna Friel.

Defender Kieran Gibbs believes Arsenal’s club-record signing of Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil can take the club to another level.

LETTING GO

Over 100 yachts took to Cork Harbour yesterday in a huge race to mark the final day of one of the country’s top regattas.

Today’s finale of Cork Week 2012 neatly splits into two parts: the haves and the have nots — those that have everything to sail for and those that simply need to turn up as all the hard yards were done and dusted yesterday.

SIMPLY put, it is anything but.

BILLED as “the closest family home in Cork city to the Statue with front and rear gardens” is Clyda, the first house seen on entering Cork’s Sidney Park.

Almost 1,500 people tested positive for drug driving last year, it was disclosed today.

MEDIEVAL challenges and surfing lessons ‘as Gaeilge’ are just two of the 1,100 events which will make up this year’s National Heritage Week which runs from August 21-29.

THE open waters surrounding Roche’s Point are often cited as one of the draws of Cork Week, with direct comparisons made to the busy shipping channels and leisure waterways that throng the Solent.

One in three college students in Ireland is experiencing mental health problems, according to a university report.

Ireland's first National Enterprise Week began today with the aim of promoting indigenous entrepreneurship and raising awareness of the support available to small businesses.

Oasis are set to lose out to Pink in the battle for number one, it emerged today, as the band's album was premiered on MySpace.

STRIKING tributes were paid yesterday to solicitor and All-Ireland-winning Kerry footballer Garry MacMahon, who died last week after a brief illness.

THE Health Strategy outlined in 2001 is in tatters. It promised an action plan for rehabilitation and physiotherapy, as well psychological assessment for thousands of people with neurological conditions, but six years later the plan has still not been implemented.

MORE than 3,000 primary school students have this week been engaging with the wonders of science at the University of Limerick.

NEW Zealand Supermaxi, Maximus, one of the most technically-advanced monohull racing yachts in the world, is to compete at the Royal Cork Yacht Club’s Cork Week, which begins on Monday.

HMMM, it's a toss up. House? Site? Or both? Up for sale right next to one another at the water's edge by the Owenabue estuary in Carrigaline in Co Cork is a bungalow on a one-third acre site.

Irish short film ‘Undressing My Mother’ has been selected to screen during International Critics Week at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, it emerged today.

EMPLOYERS should allow migrant workers longer holidays or unpaid leave to travel home for family weddings and other important events, a new guide to preventing racism in the workplace says.

TWO white-knuckle rides in two days are probably a bit much, but what’s the point in coming to Cork Week if you’re not prepared to take a couple of chances both at sea and ashore?

THE multi-billionaire owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich, was rumoured last night to be planning to drop the anchor of his 300-foot luxury yacht at Europe’s largest sailing regatta, which officially opened in Cork last night.

ALCOHOL was a factor in almost 40% of fire deaths in the past two years, according to statistics from the National Safety Council (NSC).

The support group Aware is due to highlight the issue of depression in Ireland this week.

Families of murder victims are to be supplied with a bereavement pack to help them deal with their loss and understand the criminal justice system.

WITH Ford Week getting the wind in its sails and with millionaires bobbing about ten a penny in and around Cork harbour, house vendors locally hope to switch sails to sales.