A Cork City cinema building, which had screenings from 1913 to 1964 spanning silent movies, black and white films, and the shift to colour before reopening as a leisure and entertainment complex, may be about to have a very different sequel — as a 171-bedroomed four-star hotel.

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One of Ireland’s great hotels rolled out the red carpet for a very special guest today to celebrate their remarkable connection which dates back more than a century.

Two of the brides stayed in contact after their wedding day after meeting on the 3pm train that day to Dublin 46 years ago.

Sandra Murphy is group event creation and production manager with Trigon Hotel Group in Cork

Participating couples will have their memories immortalised on the hotel's new wedding wall which will display wedding pictures from over the years.

A time-lapse video has been posted online showing Cork's newest bridge being put into place.

One of the longest-running pubs in Cork is due to expand, bringing new life to a former bakery in the city centre.

As the Metropole Hotel unveils its own new snug, Donal O’Keeffe takes a leisurely stroll around Cork and visits some of the city’s cosiest pub corners.

Employee engagement company Workvivo already has customers in 23 countries, and has been growing at a phenomenal pace since its June 2018 launch.

Des O’Driscoll looks back on the strange set of circumstances that led to the founding of the festival in 1978.

The signature dishes of some of Cork’s top restaurants will be on the menu for a culinary tour of the city shortly.

More additions to student accommodation provision in Cork are to be made after permission has been granted for a development with over 200 bed spaces near the city centre.

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The Cork Guinness Jazz Festival’s new programme director, Sinead Dunphy, says she hopes to bring a more long-term approach to planning one of the city’s biggest annual events.

A strange set of circumstances led Jim Mountjoy to suggest a jazz festival for Cork in 1978. Little did he know how his idea would snowball, writes Des O’Driscoll

Profits at the Goldman Sachs-backed hotel firm, Tifco increased by 22% to €4m last year.

Plans for the overhaul and extension of the Metropole Hotel in Cork city centre have been detailed by the company proposing the works.

Anybody looking for a central Cork building of historical character will certainly be alert to the news that the buildings occupying 6-8A McCurtain St are for sale.

The re-establishment of a tourism training agency is “the only show in town” to tackle a chronic shortage of qualified chefs in Ireland, an industry body has said.

One of Ireland’s great hotels has issued a public appeal for help to celebrate its 120th anniversary this summer.

A strong development-play deal close to €6.5m is in final stages of negotiation, on Cork city’s prime city centre 0.8 acre development site at the Square Deal furniture store.

Earnings at the group that operates the Gresham Hotel in Dublin and formerly the Metropole Hotel in Cork last year increased by 34% to €3.9m.

New owners of Cork city’s Metropole Hotel are the Philips Hotel Group, who acquired the Cork International Airport Hotel, for c €5m, back in 2012.

Cork, Kerry and Limerick hotels are among a portfolio of seven profitably trading Irish hotels being sold as a bundle, or individually, by Nama in the so-called Crystal Portfolio, valued all-in at €35m and totalling over 830 beds.

More than 400 people packed the Metropole Hotel in Cork last night for the launch of the ‘We Won’t Pay’ anti-water charges campaign, organised by the Anti-Austerity Alliance.

Limerick’s Savoy Hotel, Killarney’s Malton, Kilkenny’s Ormonde Hotel and now Cork’s Metropole Hotel are set to boost the end of year hotel sales tally to about €350 million.

NAMA is expected to pick up the pace of Irish hotel sales in the coming 18 months — so far, it has sold just 19 of the 136 in its control, and so has 117 left to sell, a conference organised by the Irish Hotel Federation heard this week.

When Myrtle Allen opened a restaurant in her dining room, the self-taught chef would cook for guests on her Aga range. Today, 50 years on, the Ballymaloe brand is world-renowned.

The group that operates the Gresham hotel in Dublin and the Metropole Hotel in Cork incurred combined losses of €27.4m over the past two years.

I have just returned from my annual visit to the Cork Jazz Festival.

LOTS of units are moving on Cork City’s MacCurtain Street in the run up to Christmas.

Exceptional costs resulted in losses at the group that operates the Gresham hotel in Dublin and the Metropole Hotel in Cork totalling over €18.5m in 2010, new figures show.

THE Gresham Hotel Group plans to dispose of assets to reduce its level of debt as losses soar.

YOUR political correspondent Shaun Connolly suggests (July 14) that the PDs tried to “bring Thatcherism with a human face to Ireland”.

RESIDENTS of one of Cork’s most historic inner-city communities were evacuated over the weekend amid fears their homes were structurally unsafe.

ONE of Cork city’s oldest hotels, the Gresham Metropole, is lining up a circa €25 million-plus investment which will include large-scale demolition of the rear of the property.