Legendary GAA commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh has been appointed cultural ambassador for Cork Culture Night, which unveiled its largest-ever programme yesterday.

Respected television news anchor Bryan Dobson has been appointed as an honourary lecturer at the University of Limerick.

A close look at Sean Sherlock, Alan Kelly and Michael McCarthy

When Myrtle Allen opened a restaurant in her dining room, the self-taught chef would cook for guests on her Aga range. Today, 50 years on, the Ballymaloe brand is world-renowned.

Flood waters swept over Cork city centre again last night after another Atlantic storm battered the city and the city was subject to a status orange wind warning.

BAN the veil. Three little words, cloaked in emotion, packaged in pro-woman sentiment, yet every bit as fundamentalist as any demand that a woman wear a niqab (face-veil) in public.

In 1969, when I worked as a junior accountant for fiddler’s pence, and was paying my way through evening classes in the College of Commerce and at UCD, I sought an overdraft of €50 from the Munster & Leinster (AIB) Band in Rathmines, and met with a refusal, since I lacked the necessary collateral.

Liam Casey saw a potential gap in a rapidly developing market. Now the Cork-born entrepreneur employs 1,200 people across the globe, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

THE decision by Cork city manager Joe Gavin to make a city centre site available at a nominal charge for the development of a centre for architecture and design is a key investment in the future of third-level education in the city and region.

THERE is no manual explaining how best to win votes.

REGARDING the sounds of disharmony emanating from the Cork School of Music, I suppose a compromise would be out of the question?