The proposed merger of two of Cork’s oldest primary schools is causing controversy on the city’s northside.

Students of Coláiste Pobail Naomh Mhuire in Buttevant, Co Cork, have been told work should begin on their new school building early next year.

Many of the distressed women that came to Cuan Mhuire over the past 50 years, came because they were suffering distress having undergone an abortion.

Consumers will get to taste the produce of some of West Cork’s leading food producers at the Macroom Food Festival, which kicks off today and continues until Monday.

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A 21-year-old Clare woman has been named among the Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons of the World by a major international organisation.

THE Leaving Certificate students of North Monastery Secondary School in Cork were generally unfazed by their first Irish paper yesterday afternoon.

WITH one of the biggest back gardens in the estate, Dun Mhuire, at 1, Laburnum Lawn, off Cork’s Model Farm Road is going to appeal to buyers who want that extra bit of space.

REVOLUTIONARY tourist, left-wing crustie, noble-minded philantropist or adrenalin junkie, whatever way you look at it, there’s a certain breed of Irishman making his name abroad.