The ramparts of a medieval fort which offer unrivalled views over Cork City will be open to the public within weeks after the State handed the historic building back to the city yesterday.

The ramparts of a medieval fort which offer unrivalled views over Cork City will be open to the public within weeks after the State handed the historic building back to the city yesterday.

The State will hand the keys of a historic 17th century fort over to a city today which plans to transform it into one of the country’s top tourist attractions.

A record number of cruise ship passengers will disembark in Cork next year, up 15% on this year and worth an estimated €21m to the economy.

Global dance superstar Michael Flatley has backed an ambitious plan to develop a world centre for Irish heritage in Cork.

Gardaí may relocate from a station in Cork City amid plans to use the existing building as part of an interpretive centre.

Proposals to stop the disruption caused by groups of teenagers on the streets of Cork city at weekends are to be unveiled within weeks.

Technology and mobile devices will play a key role in Cork’s St Patrick’s Day festivities this weekend.

Spanish students at Ashton Comprehensive School have waved adios to CD players and pen pals, as technology is allowing them to talk live on video in class with students from Salou every week.

The stage is almost set for a new open-air city centre summer music festival in Cork.

TAXPAYERS may have unknowingly coughed up €2.3 million to build a garden in the sky — but now they’re going to have to wait another year to see their project in bloom.

CORK City Council has played down reports of a row with celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin over the funding of a gold medal- winning garden, which will become the focal point of a new park in the city.

A LOCAL authority last night ruled out granting a housing transfer to a young couple based on their claims that their house is haunted.

THE Ombudsman is investigating an affordable housing fiasco in Cork which has trapped people in legal limbo for more than two years.

A PROJECT in Cork city which saves at-risk youths from a life on the streets has been ranked one of the best in Britain or Ireland.

AN illegal caravan encampment at a Traveller halting site in Cork was cleared by gardaí yesterday.