With our trees and plants bursting out all over why not bring your children on a trip to explore the best of what Ireland's nature has to offer?

I had the feeling that I was going to go backwards and fall off the world

The best family-friendly walks, cycles and outdoor adventures from coastal routes to forest walks across the province

Cycling has environmental, health, and economic benefits, but safer routes are needed to reverse its decline in popularity as a means of transport, writes Ellen O’Regan

Temperatures are dropping and the roads can be difficult to navigate in winter. Here are some helpful tips for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians using our roads during the cold weather

And a look at the differences between Prince William's and Prince Harry's relationships with the media

Birds, bikes and even recycling... Joyce Fegan meets the people whose names match their jobs

Design works to develop a greenway along the old Cork to Bandon rail line, and new infrastructure on the northside of the city have been approved

Anna Kiesenhofer took a shock solo win for Austria in the women’s Olympic cycling road race as the peloton got their sums wrong in chasing down the mathematician.

“I’ve done the Olympic thing now, I’m not just going to get the t-shirt, I’m going to try and get a medal.”

Organisers have threatened to sue the French woman who caused the incident

— Plus Cork's Fiona Shaw stars in creepy thriller Kindred

Why, when we all use the same roads, are cyclists singled out for criticism?

After a couple of wobbly incidents on a bike, it was time to get some professional help

By 2030 e-bike sales are predicted to make up the majority of new bike sales in the EU

Before pandemic supports evaporate, we need radical new policies including the creation of remote working hubs

Decision to route path along busy road rather than on the waterside have angered some — but residents have defended the choice

— Cycling out and getting the train back home could be a great option too

A cycling superhighway could be a life-enhancing, carbon-reducing, and money-saving asset  for the region and country if the political will is there to build it

While the pandemic has seen more of us get out of cars and onto our two feet or our bikes, it’s also highlighted the differences in the availability of public spaces to men and women.

A €45m investment in dozens of walking and cycling projects in Cork has been described as the true start of a “game-changing” transport plan for the city region.

The ambitious Lee to Sea greenway is among the 468 projects which will benefit from the funding announcement. 

Sadly, we won’t be able to gather together to ring in 2021 on this very odd New Year’s Eve, but we might take the time to reflect on how the spirit of togetherness got us through the worst of this year’s unrelenting challenges.

The long-delayed Cork to Limerick motorway — the M20 — has been part of Munster’s mythology for almost as long as promises around draining the Shannon have resurfaced with each passing flood.

A public consultation on keeping the city amenity pedestrianised will close on Monday

Even though it was a great personal and professional moment for Sam Bennett when he won one of the most magnificent final stage victories in Tour de France history on Sunday that great achievement, that moment in the brightest sun was tinged with ...

Former EU commissioner slams Government for subjecting him to 'a full-scale attack” in the wake of Golfgate

The Cork Cycling Campaign spoke out after confirmation of delays to the delivery and installation of bike parking bays 

Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and local authorities in the Greater Dublin Area were eligible

With a recent expenditure increase announced by the government, now might be the ideal time to take advantage of the Cycle To Work Scheme, as Gráinne McGuinness explains

Meet fundraising hero Harry O'Hanlon - another inspirational young boy from Cork who has raised tens of thousands of euro for charities hit by the pandemic.

Promises of increased investment in cycleways are welcome as we are decades behind some other European countries

The Cork Motorist Movement is concerned that the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) does not give motorists, who at present have little alternatives, any reason to leave their cars at home.

In the city I find the traffic lights/pedestrian crossing is often the flashpoint for conflict, writes Michael Moynihan

The move by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council will also create more space for pedestrians.

When the oral history of the great shutdown passes into the collective memory there will be fond nods to days spent rediscovering the local forests, beaches, and parks. Precious hours when both mind and body could wander free.

Lorraine O’Sullivan shares the story behind her favourite photograph.

A 74-year-old veteran cyclist has used his lockdown to clock up at least 1200 kilometres from his hallway cocoon and vows to pedal-on daily for frontline staff until all Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

Irish sport has never been awash with cash so it says everything about the current crisis and the impact it has had that the CEO of a leading governing body can describe a half a million euro loss in income as the tip of an iceberg.

Cork postman Declan Fitzgerald succeeded in his challenge of climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest on a turbo-trainer on Saturday.

For the following 14-plus hours the Bandon Cycling club member aims to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest from the dis-comfort of his own home.

"What we can't reuse, we recycle," says Douglas man Cillian Read, owner of The Bike Shed in Cork

"After the stage, he went to a docile cow and, using a small pen-knife that he carried in his sock, bled a vein in the cow’s neck into his water-bottle and drank the blood."

The return of Rás Tailteann to the Irish sporting calendar has been postponed.