Numerous transformative projects that will change how we live, work and travel in the city are under way, but funding streams are uncertain 

Five years into our 10-year vision for the city, there has been real progress but the biggest eyesores remain, while city centre green space has been decimated, write Jude Sherry and Frank O'Connor

My absurd experience advising nuns about fire safety in a beautiful Georgian convent taught me the most important thing about a building is the life inside it

Cork has seen war and peace, boom and bust, and on more than one occasion the flat of the city has risen Phoenix-like from the ashes of total annihilation, writes Cónal Creedon