Charities doing Trojan community work have always relied on an Irish public never found wanting when it came to generous donations, but the Covid-19 crisis has laid bare just how it can all evaporate in an instant.

Brian Hassett is from Blackrock in Cork, and has been involved in various aspects of music in multiple guises.

A Cork North Central general election candidate claims just half of a batch of 20 new community gardaí positions promised last year have been filled.

The latest radio listenership figures made good reading for RTÉ stalwart Marian Finucane, who is among those celebrating an increase in listeners in the latest JNLR results.

Singer/songwriter Mick Flannery talks childhood, young adulthood and playing music festivals around the country.

The Irish Examiner, RedFM, The Echo and 96FM are taking on the challenge of the King of The Hill Sprint Triathlon taking place at Dock Beach in Kinsale on Saturday, July 27.

Marian Finucane was the big winner in the latest radio listenership figures with her total audience for the weekend rising by 75,000.

Paul Linehan, from Cork, is the singer and bass player of The Frank & Walters. On Friday, May 10, the band headline the entertainment at the Barry Group Race & Taste Festival which takes place at Cork Racecourse Mallow on May 10 and 11.

Derek Burke is from Lisgoold, near Midleton, Co Cork.

Mick Finn, Lord Mayor of Cork city, was born and raised on Friars Walk but has also lived intermittently in Athlone, Dublin and Sydney. He atttended Sullivan’s Quay, Deerpark CBS and UCC

We're not too sure.

Tributes have been paid to a brave little girl who has died suddenly just days after meeting her idol, pop star Ed Sheeran.

The parents of a two-year-old Cork boy with cancer say he could have died had doctors in their native Poland not detected the tumour after his condition was misdiagnosed at Cork University Hospital.

Those from Cork might even know her.

A survey on the use of Irish on radio stations has found that it barely reaches the ‘cúpla focal’.

A woman has said her family demands answers from the HSE about the circumstances surrounding her father’s death in University Hospital Waterford’s (UHW) emergency department (ED).

A woman has said her family demands answers from the HSE about the circumstances surrounding her father’s death in University Hospital Waterford’s (UHW) emergency department (ED).

A Cork bar has defended its door policies after it received a torrent of criticism after it asked a man with Down syndrome to provide age identification, even though he was with his parents, who emphasised that he is 21.

PPI-award winning broadcaster, Ray Foley, will co-present a new breakfast show on Cork’s RedFM’s with Jason Coughlan from Monday.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Top breakfast radio show presenter KC has left Cork’s RedFM, with industry speculation that he is set to join rival 96FM.

Gardaí are investigating an assault and posts on a Facebook page which warn of vigilantism against drug dealers in a Cork suburb.

Following weeks of upheaval with the departure of Anton Savage and news Al Porter is to join its ranks, Today FM’s latest JNLR listenership figures show a mixed bag.

A Cork TD has criticised a “disgraceful” act of vandalism that saw a message protesting his views on abortion spray-painted onto his office.

In live radio, you are only ever as good as your last show.

Another week, another chapter onto the O’Donovan legend.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Cork comedian Ross Browne rang into the Jeremy Kyle show with a scandalous predicament on his hands.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is set to take control of a significant slice of Ireland’s commercial radio market after agreeing a £220.3m (€266m) takeover of Belfast-based Wireless Group.

The pressure of the Leaving Certificate can make you do crazy things, but this Cork student takes the biscuit with his new tattoo.

A hairdressing salon in Cork City has stepped in to offer free haircuts to two people who allege they were denied a haircut in a barber shop due to discrimination.

Bus Éireann has confirmed that it curtails its night service to a part of Cork City’s northside due to antisocial behaviour in the area.

A woman who claims she is the survivor of a paedophile ring has appealed for help in tracing the son she gave birth to when she was just 12 years old.

Almost two years after he joined Red FM, Neil Prendeville has now recovered his crown as the Cork’s most listened-to mid-morning presenter in Cork from his former employer 96FM.

Figures make happy reading for RTÉ Radio 1 as veteran presenters increase listenership by 77,000

A house at the centre of a murder-suicide in Charleville, Co Cork, remains standing despite pleas from the bereaved family to demolish it.

The family of a paraplegic Cork teenager who sustained severe spinal injuries when she fell backwards off a flat roof at a nightclub has expressed concern that her recovery will be hampered by a lack of appropriate facilities at Cork University Hospital.