With ink in his veins and who once famously described himself as “a chemist by training, a shovel engineer by vocation, and a manager by desperation” is the first person in the history of the Cork Person of the Year Awards to be inducted into a Hall of Fame.

Ted Crosbie, the dominant force for more than four decades in the company which became Landmark Media, was in many ways the ideal proprietor.

In yesterday’s statement to staff, Landmark Media Investment Ltd, owners and publishers of this newspaper confirmed for the first time that they are in advanced negotiations to conclude the sale of the group to an “experienced company operating in the industry”.

The publisher of the Irish Times has said it made an operating profit of more than €1m last year thanks to a surge in digital revenues.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to the publisher of four weekly newspapers that circulate in Co Wexford, writes Ann O’Loughlin.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to the publisher of four weekly newspapers that circulate in Co Wexford.

Dealmakers behind the €14 million purchase of the bulk of the City Quarter investment in Cork city centre from Nama have emerged as the just-re-branded MC2 Accountants, on behalf of private investors.

Tributes have been paid following the death of one of Cork’s most popular businessmen and charity campaigners after a long and brave battle against cancer.

They glided across the finishing line with ease, so much so that there wasn’t a ripple of a surprise when it was announced that hero brothers Paul and Gary O’Donovan, who captured the hearts of the nation with their Olympic rowing silver medal triumph, had won the Cork Persons of the Year Award.

Olympic medal-winning brothers and the creator of YouTube sensation Martin’s Life are among the bookies’ favourites to win the Cork Person of the Year award.

A major fundraiser is being planned to make up a shortfall in money needed to operate a charity-run home in Cork, which currently caters for 128 residents and 100 day care patients.

A man who has brought smiles to the faces of countless sick and deserving children was given a standing ovation by more than 250 guests as he was pronounced Cork Person of the Year.

Newspapers and other media outlets were unable to fully forewarn of the economic crash before 2008 because State and international agencies were insistent there was nothing wrong.

THE top floor of City Quarter, the Cork City quayside office block facing the ambitious, new One Albert Quay €45m office site, has finally been leased.

Jonathan Neville and Frank Dermody have used their passion for the Eurovision Song Contest as an opportunity to get married, grabbing headlines here and abroad.

Landmark Media, publishers of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo as well as several regional newspapers, has announced approximately 50 job losses across its operations.

Investment in new editorial production, advertising and finance systems at the publishing group Landmark Media Investments ("the Group"), which employs approximately 560 people, will facilitate the Group’s business re-engineering project through work practice changes and centralisation of services.

George O’Mahony, who has died at the age of 88, was a former company secretary of Cork Examiner Publications Ltd and a director of Thomas Crosbie and Co Ltd.

THE office relocation of Landmark Media Investments Ltd, publishers of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers, to Blackpool, in Cork, is the second significant office deal in the city in recent weeks.

A printing company suing over the loss of a valuable contract to publish newspapers in the former TCH media group will have to put up security for costs — which could be as much as €3m — if its action is to go ahead, a judge has decided.

The Irish Examiner kicked off a promising new era last night as the newspaper set about taking on the challenges of the changing media landscape under new ownership.