Juggling day-to-day professional jobs back in Cork city, and now with young children, means the owners of this Union Hall home have had to move closer to the big smoke, so they’ve decided to re-offer up this upgraded farmhouse to a much-improved market.

US musician Tom Petty said he has no hard feelings towards singer Sam Smith and called the similarities between Smith’s Grammy-nominated hit Stay With Me and Petty’s 1989 song I Won’t Back Down a musical accident.

The widow of the drowned skipper of the Tit Bonhomme trawler has bought a new vessel and named it after their youngest daughter.

There comes a time in spring when The Menu pokes his nose into the air and draws deep a draught from the east, checking the wind for first stirrings of his beloved West Waterford Festival of Food in Dungarvan (April 10-14).

A former Supervalu manager is due to be sentenced today for stealing €100,000 from her employer.

Horsemeat has been found in tinned beef sold in the North, it was revealed.

The unprecedented financial crisis that has gripped the State since 2008 has required an equally unprecedented legislative response, but this has been accompanied by a raft of reforms that will prevent a future collapse, according to Brian Hayes, minister for State at the Department of Finance.

Tom McFeely is looking for Dublin City Council to pay his High Court legal costs after he won an appeal against an order jailing him over Priory Hall.

Cork City Council is preparing to engage the public as part of its continuing plans to redesign amenity areas on the Marina.

Residents of the Priory Hall apartment complex in Dublin have unanimously agreed to enter a conciliation process aimed at resolving outstanding issues between all parties.

THE Government is planning a mini-Thornton Hall and a new Cork prison as it revealed prison numbers could jump by 50% over the next five years.

OVERCROWDING and the housing of inmates for the non-payment of fines are putting increasing strain on some of Ireland’s main prisons.

AUTHORITIES had few leads yesterday as they searched for a University of Georgia professor who disappeared after his ex-wife and two other men were shot to death outside a local theatre company near campus.

Confectionery and drinks giant Cadbury Schweppes today announced plans to cut its global workforce by around 15% – equivalent to around 7,500 jobs.

THE one innovation at Mariners Hall at the Mahon end of Cork’s Skehard Road is that the phone system works on a prepay bill system.

The state should have bought a controversial site for Mountjoy Jail in a more business-like manner, the Dáil’s spending watchdog heard today.

MUNGRET College on the outskirts of Limerick, which closed its doors to students more than 30 years ago, has danced its way back into education.

RINGASKIDDY is not a backyard, it is a gateway. And it is no ordinary gateway because it opens onto the ocean.

Four of Ireland's six-strong Boccia squad in action at the Athens' Ano Liossia Hall are still in the hunt for individual medals following the second day of competition.

CHIC, but not cheap, Landsowne Hall at O’Callaghan Strand, Limerick city is now almost fully sold.

An Orange Lodge Hall was destroyed today in an arson attack in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland.

SOME of world’s best hotels are located here, according to a newly published league table of Britain’s and Ireland’s top establishments.