Amy Hughes has taken on a new role as sales manager with Envisage Cloud. Plus a selection of other people beginning new roles with companies in Ireland.

Mini parks popped up in parking spaces across Cork city today and a school transformed a road into a playground as cars gave way for a day.

Bastien Peyraud has been appointed as general manager of the Imperial Hotel, Cork, part of the Flynn Hotels group.

The hotel broke its silence on the issue after days of pressure and a flood of complaints from people opposed to the ideology of Ms O’Doherty’s Anti-Corruption Ireland party.

Frits Potgieter has been appointed as general manager of the 5-star Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Killarney, part of the iNua Collection.

To the charge that Harper’s Island in Cork Harbour, with its three points of contact to the ‘mainland’, is not an island, the rebuttal affirming its island status: The area is defined by its natural history and not its current structures, writes Dan MacCarthy.

Cork Airport’s use of social media and digital channels saw it declared the overall 2018 Cork Digital Marketing Champion at the Cork Chamber Skillnet Digital Marketing Awards.

A ‘tech corridor’ is emerging on Cork City’s venerable South Mall — the historic commercial boulevard is now to be bookended at the iconic 97 South Mall by fast-growing company Eventbrite, who may employ up to 100 employees there over the next few years.

A letter written almost 150 years ago in an Irish hotel by a descendant of the great princes of Carbery has been presented to the hotel by his American family.

A cross-party representation of political figures in Cork is to make representations to the minister for children seeking a rise in funding for creches in the most disadvantaged parts of the country.

Seven creches looking after vulnerable toddlers in some of the most disadvantaged parts of Cork City could be facing closure.

Planning permission has been sought for a €25m-plus, 165-bed hotel off Cork City’s South Mall, which, if granted, will make it the city’s third largest hotel.

Any Christmas is surely not complete without a cocktail or two to lift what can be flagging spirits.

Actors dressed in period costume with wolfhounds at their sides greeted guests at a special bash last night to celebrate the 200th birthday of one of the country’s best known hotels.

Des O’Sullivan looks ahead to some unique sales with varied lots on offer, including art and elegant furniture.

Stoke up romance and book a getaway together in Ireland, away from the madding crowds. Pamper yourselves in a spa, have your fill of love in a top class restaurant, or get dreamy under the stars on a romantic moonlight paddle.

A 58-year-old man accused of clocking up thousands of euro in unpaid hotel bills in Cork City was remanded in custody again yesterday as mystery continues to surround his identity.

A US online custom design and sales firm, Zazzle, is setting up a European HQ on Cork City’s Union Quay, capable of hosting 150-200 employees in an IDA-backed expansion.

An Bord Pleanála has rejected an application to build a new 170-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

Plans have been unveiled for a €7m flood prevention scheme for a town in West Cork which suffered millions of euro worth of damage two years ago.

On Cork City’s Blackrock Road, Dundanion House has had commercial uses for 50 years, but would be a ‘grand’ home, says Tommy Barker.

Built as a mansion home for celebrated architect Sir Thomas Deane, Cork’s suburban Dundanion House is an absolutely immaculate large period house which has had commercial uses for the past half-century.

THE AFTERMATH

A tidal barrage which would generate electricity is the most viable option to protect a West Cork town, according to councillors who want the Office of Public Works (OPW) to incorporate it into its flood prevention plans.

Clonakilty reopened for business just hours after floods again ran through the centre of the town.

Emergency humanitarian aid of €15m is being made available to flood victims without insurance as storms again battered the country.

The head of one of the country’s largest gay pride festivals hopes that events across Cork this week will give people the strength to come out.

THE organisers of the Dublin: One City, One Book Festival, which is the focal point for a month of literary events in April, have chosen well with this year’s selection, James Plunkett’s Strumpet City.

AN ENTIRE South Mall building, opposite the Imperial Hotel, is coming to market for lease because overhead tenants, law firm Ronan Daly Jermyn, are relocating to City Gate Park in Mahon, Cork.

Cork is hoping to create technology history this St Patrick’s weekend by using advanced video teleconferencing to allow a US mayor lead parades on both sides of the Atlantic.

A number of leading hotels in Cork and Limerick have more than doubled their room prices for the night the cities play host to Bruce Springsteen next summer.

Cork is set to go a little bit New Orleans this weekend as the best jazz musicians from home and abroad descend for a Cork City carnival.

“WE’VE enough on our plate for the moment,” says foodie Conrad Howard, one of an entrepreneurial trio that opened its third Cork eating house this week.

A commemorative plaque was unveiled at the Imperial Hotel in Cork yesterday to mark a visit to the city 167 years ago by one of the most iconic figures in American history.

Cork’s Underground Short Film Festival gives emerging talents a chance to show their work in public, says Colette Sheridan

A support agency which helps people with suicidal and self-harm tendencies is planning to open a new centre in Cork in the next six to 12 months.

Heaps of holly at Hayfield Manor, Co Cork

Bar manager Tim Anderson has been crowned the youngest ever winner of 'MasterChef' after weeks of intense competition in the BBC1 culinary challenge.