Positive news can be in short supply these days.

Bradley Robert Edwards is on trial in a Western Australia Supreme Court. He is accused of the murder of Ciara Glennon (27) on March 14, 1997.

You could say it was ‘down in one’, because one day is all it took for Heineken to blot out the pint of stout that dominates an iconic mural in Macroom.

All-Ireland football winners Frank McGlynn of Donegal and Dublin’s Eoghan O’Gara have called time on their inter-county careers.

EU-WIDE specialist recruiter of permanent staff in construction, accountancy and finance, engineering, IT, HR and executive level, Euro Executive is rapidly expanding its business in Cork’s buoyant jobs market.

Dr Crokes and South Kerry will have to face off again next weekend after a Michael Potts’ goal in the second half of extra-time saved the defending champions’ blushes.

As she climbed the podium in Hungary to receive first prize in the European Masters Powerlifting Championship, the sound of Amhrán na bhFiann playing over the speakers, Cork grandmother Karen Barry felt an immense rush of pride.

Bride and groom Aoife O’Callaghan and Finbarr McCarthy returned to the scene of their first encounter — and first date — on their big day.

The late father of former Republic of Ireland player and Assistant Manager, Roy Keane, considered all of his children to be stars, his funeral mass has heard.

The funeral of Mossie Keane, the father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane, will take place on Saturday morning.

The father of former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland footballer Roy Keane has died after a long illness.

Cork’s man of the match, Tommy O’Connell, was quick to pay tribute to his teammates after Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final win.

Architects, tortoises and spaniels have colonised thisend-terrace Cork city home, writes Tommy Barker.

Gardaí in Kerry are seeking the public's help in locating a missing 48-year-old man.

Tipperary manager Liam Cahill was delighted that his side’s last chance of winning the Munster U20 final clash with Cork fell to experienced senior Jake Morris.

An exhibition in Skibbereen pays tribute to late photographer Michael Minihane, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

There’s no tent to pitch, no sleeping bag to unfurl, no stove to work out. Embrace the luxury side of camping, from Ardmore to Dromquinna, with Ciara McDonnell’s pick of the best places to glamp

Ireland’s oldest sailing trading ketch sets sail for Greenland tomorrow as part of a project marking the migratory route of the wild Atlantic salmon.

Joe Dermody looks at this week's business movers

Denis Fogarty has been appointed as senior account manager with National Business Machines (NBM) in Cork, a Xerox concessionaire and provider of printers and software packages.

I watched a three-part phenomenon at work last week. The promise it made was remarkable — so much so that I admit I was sceptical about the possibilities.

Undoubtedly, a highlight of President Trump’s trip to Ireland was the visit of his sons to the village of Doonbeg. And I can take some credit for that. No, I can take full credit, for ’twas all my idea, and that’s no fake news I’m spouting.

For Felipe Contepomi it’s on a par with River Plate v Boca Juniors; for CJ Stander and Johann van Graan a reminder of Bulls versus Stormers games.

The Gigginstown House bull sale last Saturday scaled new heights, with a purchaser from West Cork, John Applebe, describing the sale as “another step up”.

Built on a foundation of friendship and innovation, West Cork Distillers was established in 2003 by three lifelong friends, Denis McCarthy, Ger McCarthy and John O’Connell in the heart of West Cork at Union Hall.

Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for ages

A highly-respected photographer who chronicled life and times in the towns, villages, and islands of West Cork over a number of decades has died.

I hear Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is going under the knife this week. His heart is giving him trouble.

GRASS is regarded as the key to profitable and sustainable milk and meat production in Ireland, where there is an ongoing campaign to grow more of it.

In this exclusive extract from Colm O’Regan’s new book, ‘Ann Devine Ready for Her Close-Up’, mammy and daughter tiptoe through the social niceties of the community meeting and ponder the fate of the bats.

The original idea was simple: Try to do something different, something that celebrates the restaurant world in a new, more relevant and entertaining way, awards from the ground up but it took a whole decade to become a reality.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said yesterday that despite the moments of extreme tension that could occur in court, they had never erupted into trouble in Washington St, Cork, for the last 24 years — “thanks to the presence of The Ringer”.

On the morning of November 28, 1881, the people of Dursey Island, Co Cork, looked out on the Calf Rock to an extraordinary sight. The tower of the lighthouse was gone, swept away in one of the most severe storms of the century. The lighthouse had been constructed in 1866 with its light 136ft high.