Cork City Council is to decide by the end of this week whether or not to permit office use at a quayside, outdoors shop to allow an educational authority to expand its offices.

SHOE retailers Skechers have found a second Cork shopping mall footprint, taking a 2,400 sq ft-plus mezzanine vacated by A-Wear at the Wilton Shopping Centre.

A woman who killed her two children while suffering post-natal depression told a court today she was “a good mum”.

Niall ‘Boots’ Madden continued his amazing run of success for owner J P McManus when Whatever It Takes landed a tidy gamble in the featured E.P.S. Pumps Handicap Hurdle in Ballinrobe last night.

A Canadian woman has been remanded in custody charged with murdering her baby son and daughter in west London.

Chemist chain Boots is gearing up for a major push into the weight loss market as it battles for high street customers, it was reported today.

THERE is a reason for the grey hair you see in the accompanying picture.

Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Blur will headline the Glastonbury Festival in Britain next month as the event's bosses salute more established rock acts.

ANDREW MCNAMARA, who lost his claim recently, continued in a rich vein of form when partnering Arteea to an effortless win in the 45,000 Tote Exacta Ballybrit Novice Chase at Galway yesterday.

Retailer Boots reported a fall in like-for-like sales today as it warned trading conditions were likely to remain tough in the coming months.

GYPSY BOOTS, a California fitness icon, author and health guru who paved the way for generations of beatniks, hippies and health-food junkies, has died in Los Angeles. He was 89.

The first Britons to receive the ignominy of ‘nil points’ in the Eurovision Song Contest flew back to the UK today adamant they had given the performance their “best shot”.

Dame Judi Dench is the female celebrity with the greatest sense of wellbeing, according to a survey.

High Street chemist Boots is being prosecuted after three employees allegedly became ill after mixing an anti-malaria drug.