Known to many as the face of Cork City’s historic English Market, fishmonger Pat O’Connell says changing retail and shopping trends, not the afternoon car ban on St Patrick’s St, influenced his decision to open a stall in a suburban shopping centre.

Whether you think he’s bad or just plain mad, there’s no denying that Peter Casey fresh from his “Travellers are trespassers” controversy rouses passions.

Tourists must be accepted as a part of the future of Cork’s iconic English Market, which celebrated its 230th birthday yesterday.

Tourists must be accepted as a part of the future of Cork’s iconic English Market, which celebrated its 230th birthday today.

The iconic English Market in Cork will be celebrating a milestone birthday tomorrow.

Drunken revellers know it well but Cork city’s much- loved Berwick Fountain on Grand Parade is getting a facelift.

The endorsement of a children’s charity by the homegrown heroes of The Young Offenders is entirely in keeping with their character: hard chaws with soft cores.

By John Daly

One of the most beloved Cork family businesses of the past two decades, the Alternative Bread Company (ABC) in the English Market, celebrates its 20th birthday on Saturday -- with Cork Simon Community taking the day’s proceeds.

The English Market in Cork city centre is on the lookout for two new tenants.

Cork City Council claimed yesterday that a trader at the English Market was causing a fire and safety hazard by storing a huge number of boxes and crates in the loft space over his grocery unit.

Today marks the birthday of Cork's iconic English Market.

City officials have warned against suspending new visitor controls at Cork’s famous English Market.

Concerns have been raised about the impact of new tour group protocols which are due to come into effect today in Cork’s famous English Market.

Ireland’s oldest indoor market is introducing a tour-group booking system and is capping visitor group sizes to a maximum of eight people at a time in a bid to manage surging tourist numbers.

Whenever mention is made of Valentia Island, a guilty Menu reverts yet again to that much-scored spot on his mental checklist.

Newly established food producers will be salivating at the prospect of setting up shop in Cork’s prestigious English Market thanks to a new initiative aimed at attracting new blood to the 228-year old market.

Ask a Corkman and he’ll tell you that Cork is Ireland’s real capital. When it comes to food, though, it certainly has a claim to be the ’foodie capital’ at least - these travel vloggers seem to think so.

Budget 2016 is fast approaching so we set off to find out what people in Cork’s English Market were hoping for?

Inside the English Market’s cavernous halls, one large section is home to an even larger character whose silver countertops are slippy with fresh fish.

One of Cork’s best-known food products could soon be ranked alongside champagne and Parma ham as moves are under way to seek special EU legal protection for it.

Traders in Cork’s historic English Market could face fines if their stall displays encroach on the aisles under proposed new bylaws.