The impending threat of Brexit, the domestic beef crisis and the growing awareness of climate change have put the importance of supporting local food producers back on the menu in Co Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Ireland has won two of three special awards at the 2020 Michelin star ceremony in London, while a Kinsale,Co Cork restaurant has become one of the three latest Irish eateries to receive the world-famous recognition.

A lucky player from Co Cork scooped the prize.

Accumulated profits at the firm behind Ballymaloe Country House Hotel increased to €2.25m in its financial year.

Des O’Sullivan sets the scene for an intriguing sale next Saturday.

Students from Boherbue Comprehensive School in Mallow, North Cork, strode away with the top award in the Student Enterprise Programme.

The latest figures to confirm they will seek an MEP seat were Independents Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, who will run in Ireland South and Dublin.

Helen O’Callaghan talks to pupils and teachers at a Co Cork school about a nationwide initiative that sends gift boxes to kids in less privileged parts of the world

If you see Cathal Butler and his Kinsale Golf Club Barton Shield team-mates bickering at the AIG Cups and Shields finals in Thurles this week, do not be alarmed, they’re just being friendly.

New technologies helped many farmers around the world to increase their output 12-fold from 1950 to 2000, and a new age of digital technology now heralds another agricultural boom.

The overhead pull is a dying art in hurling, but not for this Corkman.

The directors of a popular Cork city gym which ceased trading suddenly last week, leaving members out of pocket, had “a reasonable expectation” that it would continue to trade “for the foreseeable future”, according to accounts signed off in February.

As the scorching weather continues, our cows are getting 6kg of ration, an allocation of grass, and 10kg of silage per day.

When ten of Cork’s best restaurants team up to present an al fresco dinner to 420 paying guests on the South Mall, can too many cooks spoil the broth? Ellie O’Byrne found out at Cork’s annual Long Table dinner.

Profits slumped last year at the Cork-based sports gear firm Mycro that supplies helmets to many of the country’s hurlers.

Almost 260 jobs were created by small companies in Co Cork last year with the help of more than €1m in grant-aid.

Although the auction of 55 acres at Gurtacrue, near Midleton, Co Cork, was cancelled at the last minute by the selling agents CCM (the property featured on these pages on January 18), there has been no shortage of action behind the scenes.

Joe McNamee has travelled the country reviewing restaurants for his Weekend column. Here, he pays tribute to the very best in his annual food awards

The launch of Ireland’s best-known food brand in the world’s 11th largest economy boosted last week’s Irish trade mission to South Korea and Japan, led by Agriculture Minister Michael Creed and Bord Bia Chief Executive Tara McCarthy.

Sweeping brushes and spades may be the physical tools of success in the Tidy Towns but the crucial factor is partnership.

A Co Cork mechanical services company with debts of almost €2m and 160 employees is beyond saving, the High Court has been told.

Tommy Barker views a fine Co Cork home

A third legal challenge over a decision extending planning permission for development of a new €320m runway at Dublin Airport has been fast-tracked by the Commercial Court.

A third legal challenge over a decision extending planning permission for development of a new €320m runway at Dublin Airport has been be fast-tracked by the Commercial Court.

The Dublin region is gobbling up too much of the €6.1bn the Government is currently spending on major capital projects at the expense of economic activity in other regions, according to the business group for the construction industry.

New bylaws being drafted for Co Cork will confine casual traders to designated areas in villages and towns.

More than €1.6bn was paid to over 130,000 Irish farmers last year under a variety of EU agriculture schemes, writes Seán McCárthaigh.

The skipper and owners of a fishing boat, who were convicted and fined a total of €4,000 on charges partly related to out-of-date safety equipment on a trawler, failed in their application under the Probation of Offenders Act to have the convictions dismissed.

A former bookkeeper for the Brothers of Charity in Cork confessed yesterday to stealing more than €16,000 from the charity over a three-year period.

Additional funding after 2017 for the LEADER rural development programme has been suggested by Environment, Community and Local Government Minister Simon Coveney.