Attempts to give Henry Ford the Freedom of Cork failed to materialise, but Thomas Grimes reveals how UCC finally honoured the man after some persuasion.

Cork is renowned as a sports-mad city, boasting a rich seam of success in all codes, whose heroes on the field of play attain iconic status.

THE board of one the country’s biggest harbours has vowed to fight government plans to scrap it.

IT CAME like a tidal wave.” That’s how businessman Finbarr Cahill remembers one of the worst floods to hit the south in the last 40 years.

SLEEK, powerful and racy - and that was just the beautiful creatures attending the world championship powerboats event taking place in Waterford over the weekend, not to mention the machines themselves.