In the wake of the Orlando Shootings, this year’s Pride parades had an extra layer of meaning for those who attended.

“Did you think I was bluffing?” a district judge asked a drug dealer yesterday about a jail sentence.

Family members of some of the heroes of 1916 are expected to attend a special wreath-laying ceremony at the National Monument on Grand Parade in Cork on Easter Monday.

For the past decade, when driving east along Washington St in Cork City, I uttered a profanity at the abomination that is the Capitol Cinema complex on Grand Parade.

A ‘wheelie’ good time is in store in Cork as the annual cycling festival rolls in to the city and its environs over the next nine days.

Riverside City swooped late to foil top-weight Man From Van in the featured Toals Bookmakers Ulster Grad National in Downpatrick yesterday, providing the highlight of a double for Gordon Elliott and Davy Condon.

DEVELOPER John Cleary hasemerged as the preferred bidder for Cork city centre’s prime Capitol cinema site on Grand Parade, and aims to build a mix of big-box retail units, aimed at the likes of Zara and Forever 21, and fourth generation offices on the site which links back to Patrick’s Street. 

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Festival of music, fun, and food kicks off today in a three-day spree expected to attract 100,000 spectators.

The Menu has enjoyed wonderfully uplifting repasts in The Stuffed Olive Café, in Bantry, so was saddened when it closed last year.

As Cork Pride celebrates 20 years, some of those involved recall their best memories of the event for Colette Sheridan

FIANNA FÁIL TD Timmy Dooley has criticised Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore for refusing to attend a male-only dinner during his St Patrick’s Day trip to America.

ARE you a techno fan and do you feel like taking part in a flash mob in Cork city?

Paramilitaries were not behind overnight clashes in east Belfast which left six police officers injured, a senior officer said.

A 23-year-old man who discharged a sawn off shotgun through the sitting room window of a Ballyfermot house in the early hours of the morning has been jailed for seven years.

An alcoholic schizophrenic Westmeath resident who threw missiles at gardaí during the 2006 "Love Ulster" parade riot has been given a three year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE insistence of parents and teachers that the education budget cutbacks must be reversed was as strong in Cork at the weekend as it was when thousands protested outside the Dáil almost a month ago.

Three people were injured in an overnight fire in West Belfast, police said today.

THE thought of Michael McDowell and colleagues on the reviewing stand outside the GPO for a reinstated 1916 Easter military parade fills me with trepidation.

IRELAND’S largest ever fireworks display has been cleared to take place in Cork city in just over a week.

All assault charges in the Denis Franklin trial in Cork came to nothing today when a judge ruled that statements by two accused were inadmissible because gardaí offered inducements and in the case of the third defendant there was simply no evidence.

Two men have been shot in paramilitary-style shootings in Belfast.

Four men were arrested and charged today with assault causing serious harm to a Cork Institute of Technology student who has been on a life support machine since February last year.

Ireland's largest gay pride march is due to take place in Dublin today. More than 6,000 people are expected to join in the event in Dublin.

The parents of a 20-year-old student, who is in a critical condition after being savagely beaten, are today keeping a vigil at his hospital bedside.

A major investigation is underway in Cork following a vicious attack on a Limerick student in the city centre this morning.