Trigon Hotel Group is recruiting, with openings available in a wide rage of fields in all three of its Cork properties, Cork Airport Hotel, The Metropole Hotel and Cork International Hotel.

County champions St Finbarr’s consolidated top spot in the Rochestown Park Hotel Division 1 football league following another impressive display.

Frits Potgieter has been appointed as general manager of the 5-star Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Killarney, part of the iNua Collection.

A fashion retail firm co-owned by entrepreneur and lifestyle guru, Pippa O’Connor recorded profits of over €850,000 in its first 15 months in business.

Hotels have been accused of price gouging a year ahead of Ed Sheeran’s Irish gigs.

IF SEÁN Ó Liatháin has taken a lifetime to get around to recording his debut CD, he has ample excuse, writes Pet O’Connell.

A new hi-tech 3D service in Cork to analyse the walking patterns of children with complex disabilities will help some avoid painful surgery, including having bones broken and re-set.

Barrow Rangers (Kilkenny) 2-14 Shanballymore (Cork) 1-15: Kilkenny’s Barrow Rangers advanced to the All-Ireland JBHC final after defeatomg Cork champions Shanballymore in Killeedy yesterday.

A man who has brought smiles to the faces of countless sick and deserving children was given a standing ovation by more than 250 guests as he was pronounced Cork Person of the Year.

Matters to be resolved.

Willowbank is new to market this weekend and holds its own against its neighbours, writes Tommy Barker.

This modernist gem, built in the 1970s, is fitted with perfect period furniture, writes Rose Martin.

The setting’s the star at April Cottage, a ground floor two-bed home/investment by the sea, a marina, a beach and a bar — all in Kinsale harbour to boot.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

The firm that operates the four-star Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork increased its earnings in 2013 by 4% to €1.37m.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was given his first reprieve from anti-water charge protesters last night after none turned up at a Fine Gael party meeting he was attending in Cork.

Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune has described the decision of Cork's Rochestown Park Hotel to cancel a Fine Gael meeting as disgraceful.

Republic Of Telly RTE Two, 10pm

830,000 babies die every year because they weren’t even breast-fed for an hour

The Indian Summer we have been experiencing in recent weeks is not just putting us in better form, but also the winemakers across Europe. 

A MUNSTER property auction is set to offer 30 lots to investors and buyers in Cork on October 2, following hot on the heels of a very successful Allsops auction last week that netted an all time high of €54m from 194 lots.

Sq m: 148 (1,600 sq ft)

Sq m: 106 (1,150 Sq. ft)

There’s a whole range of affordable Limerick, Cork, and Kerry homes coming up for sale in two weeks time, via the I Am Sold/Munster Property Auction method.

REBEL ÓG MONTHLY SPORTS AWARDS

Twenty auction lots, including houses plus some commercial offers and investments, are to feature at next week’s I Am Sold Munster Property Auction.

In a word-association test, ‘Beara’ would surely be followed by ‘football’. It’s a way of life that far west and as the Urhan U14s showed in 2013, it looks like things will continue that way into the future.

New and established names feature at Dolan’s sale in the Rochestown Park Hotel tomorrow, says Des O’Sullivan.

The bookies think today’s Cork Person of the Year award winner will either be a world gold medallist or a woman who voluntarily helps feed people who have fallen on hard times.

Rochestown Road, Cork €550,000

Just weeks after the greening of our Cork landmarks, the city is set to turn blue.

The company that operates the four-star Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork went into the red in 2011, with losses of €620,758.

New bridges and cycleways will form part of a plan to free up traffic in a congested area on the southside of Cork City.

The great and the good of Cork underage GAA will gather tonight for the inaugural annual Rebel Óg Awards dinner at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

BUILDING bridges in the air for internet search engine companies, completing a psychiatric care hospital for the Under 18s in Cherry Orchard, Dublin, and fitting out offices in Cork for the likes of VMware and extensions for Boston Scientific — the architectural practice Reddy O’Riordan Staehli is back being busy as it celebrates its 40th birthday.

It’s a scenario that’s become depressingly familiar to members of sports clubs all over the country.

Keyhole surgery carried out by a robot will be beamed live by satellite from a Cork hospital to one of the city’s top hotels — and viewed by an audience of hundreds.

INTERNET users researching a trip to Cork can now take a virtual tour inside the city’s bars, restaurants, hotels and other businesses — a move which traders hope will boost tourism.

AIB is giving serious consideration to a finance industry call for “more imaginative” loan structures — such as back-loaded repayments on long-term loans — to drive agri-food growth.

After 139 days of round-the-clock sit-ins, the former employees of Vita Cortex have finally secured a severance deal with their former employer which will allow them to go home within a fortnight.

Cork’s four-star Rochestown Park Hotel is projecting a very successful 2012.