Kieran McCarthy is a councillor in Cork city and is also heavily involved in the local musical theatre scene through Cork City Musical Society. He directs a production of Crazy for You from April 29 to May 1 in Firkin Crane, Cork.

A Cork radio station had to put the brakes on its April Fools spoof on traffic congestion charges yesterday after City Hall was flooded with complaints from irate listeners who didn’t get the joke.

A trader in Cork’s famous English Market has defended his practice of buying vegetables in German discount stores and selling them from his stall at a marked-up price.

The build-up started with Cork’s 96FM’s ‘below the belt’ promotion directing a thinly veiled personal swipe at their former prizefighter.

Veteran broadcast journalist PJ Coogan is set to go head-to-head with his former colleague Neil Prendeville after he was appointed the permanent host of Cork’s 96FM’s flagship talk show.

Key survival strategies for small businesses will be outlined at a showcase for businesses based on Cork’s northside later this month.

HARDWORKING students at the University of Limerick, concerned that colleagues are hogging university computers for fun, and reducing their availability for academic purposes, have now won a vote to stem the Bebo craze sweeping the campus.

MORE than 150 third-level students took to the streets of Limerick yesterday to protest at the rising costs students are facing.