A former Cork city bar operated by the Rebel Bar Group has changed hands, and is due to re-open by Easter. Mulligans, on Parnell Place, has been acquired by a small consortium headed up by Liam Barry, who has owned the Bodhrán on Oliver Plunkett Street for more than 10 years, and who’s been in the bar business in Cork and Mallow for almost 20 years.

INDEPENDENT Irish hotel group Moran Hotels has agreed terms to buy the Bewleys Hotel chain for an undisclosed sum.

CORK are restricted to just two representatives - Ronan Curran and Joe Deane - on the Munster team to face Leinster in the M. Donnelly Interprovincial hurling semi-final in Croke Park on Sunday (12.15pm).

At a murder trial in the Central Criminal Court today a witness told that the victim had lived in fear of a gang called the "Morans".