Cork City Council is set to consider forging formal links with Miami, Bordeaux, and St Petersburg.

A sentencing judge has welcomed a paedophile and former Christian Brother’s “substantial change of heart” after he pleaded guilty for the first time to sex assaults on two pupils at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork.

A former Christian brother at Cork’s North Mon who had been convicted for indecently assaulting several schoolboys — despite his strenuous denials — pleaded guilty for the first time to two more offences yesterday.

A former Cork city teacher who quit the profession to pursue a writing career has been awarded the 2015 Bryan McMahon Short Story Award from Listowel Writers Week.

The lawyer for a former Christian Brother on trial for indecently assaulting four schoolboys claimed the accused was being used as a scapegoat for the complainants’ problems.

A former Christian Brother on trial for indecently assaulting four boys at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork in the 1980’s told investigating gardaí that he took an overdose in 2010, it emerged yesterday.

A Cork all-Irish school has reversed its decision not to enrol a third first-year class next September after more than 20 appeals were made to the Department of Education.

The speed limit on roads around six Cork schools has been slashed to 30kph as part of an EU project.

PARENTS and schools should foot the bill, or take on the responsibility themselves, of providing school wardens, a city councillor said last night.

THE first Leaving Certificate English paper was well received among students at St Angela’s College on St Patrick’s Hill in Cork city centre yesterday morning.

THE sun was shining on the students of North Monastery secondary school in Cork’s northside as most emerged pleased from their first taste of state examinations before lunchtime yesterday.

HOLLYWOOD stars mingled with mourners yesterday as actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers bid an emotional farewell to his beloved mother.

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

THE first Irish paper brought an end to the second day of exams for Junior Certificate candidates yesterday evening.

ALL-IRELAND winning manager Dónal O’Grady duly opted out yesterday after two years in charge of the Cork team, during which he restored pride and respectability to hurling in the county after the debacle of the player revolt in late 2002 and inspired the county’s 29th championship title last month.