Ciara McDonnell has the best hotel packages to help you ring out the old year and celebrate the new.

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

With endless exotic rides and a few token exotic birds, anyone dining on Cork’s busiest boardwalk last night could be forgiven for thinking they were witnessing a revival of Men and their Motors.

BUSINESSES have offered cars, cakes, wedding dresses, flowers and jewellery to a young couple who have brought forward their wedding — as the groom has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.