When Ford opened a UK plant in Dagenham in 1931, so many men from Leeside got work in the Essex town that it became known as ’Little Cork’. Cork balladeer Jimmy Crowley remembers his family links to it.

A soup kitchen charity in Cork believes its free first communion clothes initiative for families struggling to meet the costs of the big day should be replicated across the country.

IT’S only right and fitting that Joan Walsh is a regular visitor to Árd Cúram, a day-care centre in Listowel — two decades ago she was on the original committee that set up the Listowel centre for the elderly.

DIY chain Atlantic Homecare has been placed in examinership following an application by the company to the High Court in Dublin today.