The historic Woodford bar in Cork city centre, with a licensed and drinks trade link stretching back to 1750, has been bought out of receivership for c €1.25 million.

Separate operations in Cork, Dublin, and Wexford will have a “significant impact” on the supply of heroin, according to senior gardaí.

TWENTY Years a Growing, or Fiche Bliain ag Fás, is a classic memoir of 20th century Irish literature — but, in the case of a Cork city office building, it’s more like a case of Five Years, and no Fás.

An Eddie Rocket’s diner in Arklow and the delicatessen area of a Cork supermarket were among nine premises served with a closure order last month for food safety legislation breaches.

Enable Ireland has issued an urgent appeal for donations after road works contributed to a 20% drop in donations to its Cork city charity shops.

The PRO of Limerick Marine Search and Rescue has slammed the actions of a person who allegedly phoned in a bogus alert that, a woman had jumped into the River Shannon earlier tonight.

Inner-city residents in Cork have reacted angrily to disruptive late-night deliveries to Lidl’s newest Irish store.

At the end of the current rugby season, Irish rugby will say goodbye to a long time servant of the game.

Financial services company Cornmarket, which focuses on public sector employees, has decided to close its Cork call centre with 18 jobs to be transferred to its Dublin office.

KARL knows of up to 20 people who have died from heroin.

An addicted gambler who stole over €78,000 from the insurance company where he had worked for seven years has been given a four-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE golden parachute package offered to John O’Donoghue is unearned, immoral and obscene.

THE revamp of a historic Cork city market area was among several projects in doubt last night after the Government slashed by almost half its funding for city roads.