Twenty jobs will be created via a national accountancy apprenticeship programme in Cork in which applicants will earn while they learn.

Seven third-level education and research institutes in Cork, attended by some 48,000 staff and students, have united to call for better cycling infrastructure.

Cork-born jeweller Gemma O’Leary’s Inner Island designs were showcased in New York this week. She’s one to watch, writes Carolyn Moore.

An Irish businessman bought the replica of one of the world’s most famous ships because his young son wanted to celebrate his birthday party onboard it.

A knife-wielding attacker was neutralised by armed gardaí during a simulated multiple-stabbing attack and hostage standoff inside a Cork City nightclub — believed to be the first emergency services exercise of its kind in the country.

As Cork City Council and the Office of Public Works draw up plans to erect controversial flood defences in the city centre, the Irish Examiner brings you an alternative view. All this week, we highlight the shortlisted entries to the Save Cork City competition to unlock the potential of Morrisson’s Island in the heart of the city centre and reimagine what its future might hold. Some are brave. Some are bold. But all are designed to spark debate. The overall winner will be revealed in the Irish Examiner next Monday.

Cork badly needs office space and housing fast-tracked if it is to compete for the next wave of foreign direct investment, the IDA has warned.

The organisers of a 10,000 capacity music festival expect it to sell out well in advance after announcing a raft of artists will appear alongside Manic Street Preachers, The Coronas and Sigma.

A battle for the patronage of a primary school planned for one of Cork’s largest towns has kicked off.

Miss Ireland tells Marjorie Brennan that she experienced more bitchiness online than at Miss World

After raising her children, Breda Grinsell returned to college to study business information systems at the age of 54. She’s enjoying the challenge, says Marjorie Brennan.

Vloggers and YouTubers are regarded as highly influential by the beauty industry. Now Irish women are getting in on the act, with some even earning a living. 

Looking good is hard work but well worth the effort, says newly crowned Miss Ireland, Jessica Hayes from Douglas, Cork.

BARBARA Leahy always wanted to write. But the 39-year-old insurance administrator from Ballinlough in Cork city didn’t know where to start.

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By Eoin English

Further river flooding is expected in parts of the country as an Atlantic storm depression is expected to reach Ireland later today.

IT’S just celebrated its 100th anniversary, but the rubber hot water bottle is still proving to be hugely popular with the Irish, if sales spikes last Christmas are anything to go by.

While most Leaving Certificate students nervously await their results and college offers next month, one Filipino student will be equally as worried about being granting Irish citizenship.

One student who should not feel all at sea when he opens Leaving Certificate English Paper 1 this morning is Able Seaman Colin McGrath.

Students from disadvantaged communities will be left with the choice of emigration or the dole instead of increased job prospects because of a €12m budget cut, opposition parties have warned Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.

Cork third-level student Margaret O’Donovan is UniSlim’s Youth Ambassador after shedding 4st 7lbs so she could buy the clothes she wanted for her 18th birthday.

The highest qualification in Montessori education available outside Dublin is on offer for students on a new course at Cork Institute of Technology.

“WITHOUT her, I wouldn’t be here.”

A SPECIAL civic reception will be held in Cork City Hall tonight to pay tribute to a councillor battling cancer and who is also marking 25 years in local politics.

A NEW principal has been appointed to take charge of the country’s largest further education college in the autumn.

AROUND two-thirds of people applying to study in some further education colleges have been unsuccessful because of a cap on places imposed by the Government, a union has claimed.

A young Cork designer got a major leg up in the fashion design world yesterday after winning a major competition.

BILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien is turning quizmaster for the biggest corporate brainteaser ever organised in Ireland, which will benefit the Cork Cancer Research Centre.

CORK could become the creative capital of the country through a planned art and design quarter, graduating students heard yesterday.

A STUDENT was hailed a hero yesterday after saving a woman’s life in a daring city centre river rescue.

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A FORTNIGHT or so ago an issue arose in connection with the costs associated with the immunisation of student nurses in Dublin.

ANOTHER broadside has been fired in the battle for the hearts and minds of thousands of voters frustrated at the Government’s failure to tackle the vexed question of childcare.

TWINS David and Elaine McCarthy had 15 good reasons to celebrate last night. Between them, they scored that many As in the Leaving Certificate.

UNDISCIPLINED students are driving teachers out of their jobs, the annual conference of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) was told yesterday.