The 22-acre toxic dump at Haulbowline Island in Co Cork was formerly the site for Irish Ispat/Irish Steel. Its revamp involved one of the biggest environmental works in the history of the State.

The Phoenix Park in Dublin has won a top award for being one of the best urban spaces in the world.

It looks like we're certainly not the only ones feeling this heatwave.

A huge new public park in Cork City, to rival Dublin’s Phoenix Park, is finally set to open next year.

The BMX Ireland National Series was hosted by Cork BMX Club at their track at Tramore Valley Park last weekend.

The body of a newborn baby has been found in a Hampshire park.

People passing the front gates of Cork’s Bishop Lucey Park in Cork last Friday had to avoid a man whirling long chains with fireballs attached, writes Liam Heylin.

The Government has committed to spending €61m on turning part of Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour into a public park, despite a report commissioned by the Office of Public Works (OPW), which concluded it was an unsuitable location for use as a public amenity.

A man in his 30s has been killed after a shooting in Dublin last night.

Yes, you read that right.

Welcome to Dismaland.

A significant expansion at one of Cork’s largest public parks is on the cards after planning was secured for new walkways.

It's a very important decision.

While the Sheares brothers may not have ‘come from Glasheen’, as Pat Daly thinks, (Irish Examiner, June 4) that is no reason why they should be denied honouring, but not at the expense of Bishop Lucey.

A chance bus trip through Killarney National Park more than 20 years ago “mesmerised” a young landscape photographer and sparked a compulsion in him to picture its wonders in all their glory.