Cork Chamber has called for a merger of the city and county councils by 2018, claiming the move could deliver significant rates reductions for struggling businesses.

Our energy problems reflect the path of our top industries, writes James Woolsey

A WEALTHY American couple, which supports the Vatican museum and has donated to the British Labour Party, plans to give almost €400,000 to help build a new arts centre in west Cork.

Yeats has been all the rage with the bookmakers ahead of Saturday’s Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh.