Tributes were paid yesterday at Cork Circuit Court to solicitor Jeremy O’Connor, who died recently.

Three planning experts have warned against merging Cork city and county councils, claiming that a single authority will be oversized, unwieldy, undemocratic and unworkable.

Local connections to national and global events a century ago have been unearthed by winners of a schools’ history competition.

UCC students are banding together for a world record attempt — in a hula-hoop challenge.

It was once a quiet rural village with a one-sided main street. But following the opening of retail giant Tesco’s latest Irish store in Ballincollig, Co Cork, yesterday, the town on the western outskirts of Cork City now boasts one of the widest retail choices of any town in Ireland.

THE singer prances about the stage, twisting his face into a devilish grimace as he belts out the blues standards. He’s part Mick Jagger, part James Brown and all Joe O’Callaghan. It’s a Monday night in the mid-1980s in Cork and Hot Guitars are playing in Sir Henrys.

For the past five years, University College Cork’s FUAIM concerts and seminars have celebrated the diversity of Irish music and its interconnectedness with further flung forms.

Culture vultures will be able to embark on a city-wide digital treasure hunt as part of this year’s culture night celebrations in Cork.

Children are being invited to provide a commentary on some of Cork’s best known restaurants as part of this year’s Midsummer Festival.

IT’S fair to say that people don’t have any great fondness for Páirc Uí Chaoimh as a stadium.

STUDENTS at University College Cork (UCC) may organise their own graduation ceremonies this year to avoid a controversial new graduation charge, it emerged yesterday.

IRISH rugby supporters’ long wait for the Grand Slam goes on, following the late defeat by Scotland last weekend in Cardiff.

UNIVERSITY College Cork has wholly denied allegations from a pro-life group that it is intent on “destroying human life”.

A NATIONWIDE network of coastal communities could be established within six months thanks in part to research carried out in Cork and Wales.

A STUDENT with dyslexia has had his request for Leaving Cert exam concessions turned down despite a psychologist’s report saying he should qualify.