A number of businesses in Macroom are facing disruption due to work to rebuild a fire-damaged theatre there.

The woman found seriously injured on the side of the road in Macroom, Co. Cork has since died.

Plans have been revealed for the €4.5m rebuilding of an iconic theatre in Co Cork which was gutted by fire two years ago.

The incident occurred in Macroom shortly before 10pm last Saturday, January 12.

Tenders are now being sought for the construction of a badly-needed bypass in County Cork, but doubts remain over the fate of two similar projects.

The jig is up.

The man shot dead on a farm outside Macroom, Co Cork on Tuesday night will be buried following his funeral mass on Sunday.

The father-of-one shot dead on a farm outside Macroom has been remembered as a popular, hard-working man and a pillar of the community.

Gardai continue to question a man in his sixties in relation to the fatal shooting of Derry Coakley (59) on a farm outside Macroom earlier this week.

The winding, hairpin, country lanes brought increased traffic off the main Cork-Killarney road up into the farmland hills of Raleigh, outside Macroom, a place that offers a spectacular vista of the Lee making its way through The Gearagh woodland.

The winding, hairpin, country lanes brought increased traffic off the main Cork-Killarney road up into the farmland hills of Raleigh, outside Macroom, a place that offers a spectacular vista of the Lee making its way through The Gearagh woodland.

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Friends of the man shot dead on a farm outside Macroom Co Cork last night have expressed their shock at the killing of the father-of-one.

A man who died following a shooting at a farmhouse in Cork last night has been named locally as 58-year-old Derry Coakley from Macroom.

One of the men behind Ireland’s top hotel carvery has revealed their secret ingredient — a delicious blend of superb food, served by dedicated staff, all smothered with layers of customer service.

Delegates from Norway, Greenland, Scotland, and England will attend a special seminar in Cork next week focusing on recycling waste fishing nets and ropes, largely blamed for killing many marine species.

An evocative new mural in Macroom recalls the mid-Cork town’s connection with the railways.

The Macroom music event built on its growing reputation as one of the friendliest small independent festivals in the country with three days of fun in the sun.

Children living in a direct provision centre performed a special dance as a way of saying thanks to local people in Macroom, Co Cork, who hosted a board games afternoon for them last weekend.

Archaeologists have announced further strike action following last week's 24-hour strike at the N22 Macroom Bypass scheme.

An exhibition in Macroom unites three artists with an affinity for the landscape, writes Colette Sheridan.

Townlands Carnival is set to get even bigger this summer with the addition of the Village Green, Big Bubbles Family Area and the Village Hall to the Rusheen Farm Estate.

Archaeologists have downed trowels in the first of a threatened series of nationwide work stoppages sparked by a row between their union and the company which employs them.

Archaeologists who held a protest rally in relation to pay issues on the Macroom bypass in Co Cork have spoken of their years of frustration at trying to make a living in an industry which disappeared during the recession and reportedly only offers above the minimum wage now.

State grant insufficient to rebuild fire-gutted venue in Macroom

A Macroom man was put on trial by judge and jury yesterday on a charge of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home exactly four years ago.

Cork County Council is to seek tenders for the construction of the €100m Macroom bypass in mid-July.

The wet weather continues to be a major factor in stock management.

A Cork woman had told how her pen pal friendship, which has lasted almost half a century, has changed with time from old-fashioned letters to instant social media posts.

Gardaí and Revenue officials seized more than €17,000 worth of alcohol and tobacco, and a sum of cash in a raid on a house near Macroom, Co Cork, earlier this week.

Archaeologists have discovered 30 previously unknown ancient sites along the proposed Macroom bypass route, including a Bronze Age ring fort.

Contractors have fenced off almost half the entire route of a long-awaited €160m bypass of one of Cork’s worst bottlenecks.

Tommy Barker visits a large property by the Sullane river with roots reaching back a century and more.

A vet who gave a woman the wrong ashes after charging her €200 for cremating her pet dog has been cleared of trying to obtain money by deception.

Hundreds of people attended a march in Macroom to highlight the plight of seven-year-old Ava Barry who has Dravet syndrome and whose family are campaigning for her to be given access to medical cannabis.

 

A coroner has called for a ban on the sale of old-style chip pans and urged people to dump them, after an inquest heard how two men died in a house fire caused by an unattended chip pan.

Unlived in for a while and needing TLC and a top-up for comfort and style, this Macroom home is still well worth a view — and a view from.

The long-awaited Macroom to Ballyvourney bypass is “near shovel ready” and yellow jackets will be on the road in January, Fine Gael TD, Brendan Griffin, told councillors at a meeting in Tralee.

Ireland is full of some real hidden gems - places of unique beauty.

A man who assaulted a woman who refused to dance with him in a nightclub has been ordered to pay €1,000 in compensation, writes Joe Leogue.