A jury took four hours to deliver a not guilty verdict in the case against a man accused of falsely imprisoning his mother’s friend during a violent siege.

Towering ambition, Munster passion and a long-proven New York track record in building skyscrapers and working on Manhattan’s ‘Ground Zero’ rebuild are behind soaring plans for an extraordinary Irish site that’s been dubbed “the key to Cork’s docklands future”.

Members of the the Save Cork City campaign staged a 'picnic' beside the River Lee on Sunday.

Large crowds are expected to turn out in Cork city today to protest against a major flood relief scheme.

CORK CITY has a long and occasionally fraught relationship with the River Lee. 

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

AFTER a market revival in 2012 and 2013, 60 Irish hotels sold in 2014 for a total of €440m, double that of the prior year.

EVEN years after it was built, Cork’s River Lee Hotel has spent €500,000 on a patio upgrade, adding an indoor-outdoor room which enhances its Leeside setting.

The bodies of a man and a woman were taken from the River Lee, Cork, yesterday.

A TOP and profitable Limerick city hotel comes for sale this week guiding €17 million, less than half of its development cost, estimated to have been c €40 million.

€200m in investments and up to 4,000 marine-centred jobs and new tourism attractions are in Cork Harbour’s pipeline, reports Tommy Barker.

Parts of Cork City flooded last night as Met Éireann issued weather warnings for several parts of the country.

The Radisson Blu Hotel in Cork has been bought by an Irish investment group for more than €8m, securing the future of the four-star hotel’s 150 jobs.

When we lose a loved one we need to grieve and then we try to move on. We have grieved the demise of the Celtic Tiger long enough, it is time to move on.

CORK CITY €45/65,000

Expert says claim that Cork city’s streets are half-empty is misleading, writes Eoin English

Emergency services are at the scene of an incident involving a car at the River Lee in Cork City this evening.

O’Callaghan Properties are looking for up to €25m for the 180-bed River Lee hotel they built in 2006 on the old Jurys Hotel site in Cork city.

A SEARCH of the river Lee for a missing Corkman is set to resume this morning after a widescale operation failed to show up any trace of the Rochestown student yesterday.

A dive team from the Naval service has joined in the search for a missing person in Cork this morning.

SIX competition rowing boats worth a total of €32,000 were used as firewood on a Good Friday bonfire by a group of youths drinking by the River Lee.

IT got off to a soggy start, but no amount of moisture could have killed the carnival in Cork last night where jazz junkies got down and dirty to swinging big band music and lashings of Latin groove.

A homeless man has been sentenced to six years in jail after pleading gulity to the manslaughter of his partner who he pushed into the River Lee in Cork.

Bad weather is continuing to disrupt water supplies around the country, but there has been some improvement.

The Christmas lights will be turned on at the Grand Parade in Cork tonight - just a week after the street was submerged in up to three feet of water.

The hospital in Cork which had to evacuate its lower floors when the River Lee burst its banks is re-opening its emergency department.

ELECTRONIC access gates to small-niche residential communities and large one-off houses are a sign of our security-conscious times, if not even snobbery-laden days. But, not too many houses have a railway level crossing as part of their approach drive.

A PROJECT involving the gradual cleaning of the River Lee continued yesterday.

A man in his 40s is in a critical condition in hospital after he was rescued from the River Lee in Cork yesterday.

Cunalee is as close as many abused women come to a happy Christmas, writes Catherine Shanahan.

BUSINESSES in Cork wrote to the Government last night seeking emergency relief funding after an estimated €10 million damage was caused by the city’s worst flood in over 40 years.

Investigations are continuing into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 31 year-old man, whose car was discovered in the River Lee in Cork on Christmas Eve.

The body of an 18-year-old youth has been recovered from the River Lee in Cork.