Music Cork is back – and this time the keynote speaker is Cork-born, Universal Vice President Sarah Desmond, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Looking for plans for the weekend? Here’s a list of what’s on and where.

IF YOU can put horses into burgers, why not cows into bars? Seasoned pub and club operators in Cork are set to cause a stampede of cow puns as they open their new premises, The Holy Cow.

Bono joined two businessmen and a billionaire Saudi prince on a yacht in the south of France as a multimillion-pound deal to sell one of the world’s most famous hotels was finalised, a British High Court judge was told yesterday.

TICKETS have just gone on sale for what promises to be another epic Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The October Bank Holiday event will feature more than 1,000 musicians from 29 countries.