Cork is on the up with €400m worth of tall building developments proposed for the city in the next few years, writes Kevin O’Neill

Over the years, some outstanding teams have claimed the Seamus Long Cup, and on Saturday night in Páirc Uí Rinn, Fr O’Neill’s joined this illustrious group.

Fr O’Neill’s held off Blarney in today’s tense Cork PIHC semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn.

No 12 The Terrace may be modest but it is in perfect walk-in condition, says Tommy Barker.

A devastating ten minute period after half-time propelled Fr O’Neill’s into the quarter-finals of the Cork PIHC as they saw off the challenge of Fermoy at Ballynoe yesterday.

Planning permission has been granted for a landmark 15-storey skyscraper that is set to transform Cork city's skyline.

The hardy monks used to winter in Ballinskelligs. They’d come in from the Rock as the weather turned nasty at the darkest time of year. And then, when the Skellig could no longer be inhabited at all, they moved lock, stock and barrel into Ballinskelligs and established an abbey.

The chief executive of one of the biggest construction companies in New York, and which is behind a number of projects in Ireland, has hit out at the influence of holiday-home owners in South Kerry getting “to dictate” what the true local community needs and deserves.

Plans for what could be the tallest building in Ireland, near Cork’s Mahon Point, have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála.

An Irish teenager with the ‘Wright stuff’ has signed for Aston Villa.

Planning permission is being sought for a slim, 15-storey, €20m triangular-shaped office tower in the heart of Cork City inspired by the legendary 22-storey 1902 Flatiron building in New York.

A very tall office tower, of up to 15 storeys on a very tiny footprint site, is expected to go for planning permission in Cork city centre in coming weeks.

WILL one of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars have a rendezvous tryst with development fates?

The developer behind plans for Ireland’s tallest skyscraper on the historic Port of Cork city site has pledged to restore and conserve its historic buildings and develop a visitor attraction the city will be proud of.

A postage-stamp sized site in the heart of Cork City, which was bid upon by US-based developers earlier this year up to a reported €1.3m, is among the 200 lots at the December BidX1 end-of-year online auction.

The developers of a proposed 40-storey building on the Custom House site in Cork City have said they expect to apply for planning permission for the development in early 2018.

Having worked with Musgraves, KBC, Port of Cork, the HSE, the Montenotte Hotel and Reardens Group, architectural firm PLM has rebranded as Meitheal. Pádraig Hoare speaks with managing partner Patrick O Toole

The near completion and €3m renovation of a hotel complex will provide a major tourism boost to a South Kerry town.

Towering ambition, Munster passion and a long-proven New York track record in building skyscrapers and working on Manhattan’s ‘Ground Zero’ rebuild are behind soaring plans for an extraordinary Irish site that’s been dubbed “the key to Cork’s docklands future”.

Editor of the Irish Times Kevin O’Sullivan unexpectedly stepped down yesterday, with deputy editor taking over with immediate effect, writes Pádraig Hoare of the Irish Examiner.

Tommy Barker looks at a four-bed family home that went on the market in a popular Cork suburb this week.

Little and large co-exist at the top of the Rosebank estate, just off Cork’s Douglas Road. 

Barry Auctioneers and Valuers is currently offering for sale a centrally located commercial unit in Cork city. This is a single storey mid-terrace property located at 16 Anglesea Street.

Former Waterford manager Michael Ryan has urged Derek McGrath to throw the shackles off and hit Kilkenny hard from the start in Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final.

Béal Átha’n Ghaorthaidh 3-15 Newmarket 1-9: Béal Áthán Ghaorthaidh rattled off an impressive victory at the expense of Newmarket in the opening round of the Cork Premier IFC at Macroom yesterday.

Cork’s progression to the All-Ireland U21 final, on Saturday, April 30, looks set to disrupt local football championship fixtures.

No 14, Bellevue Road, in Cork’s Frankfield suburb is sort of a rare, cross-over beast: it’s a detached three-bedroomed home.

A 33-year-old man accused of stealing cash from two patients at Marymount Hospice in Cork confessed to the crimes yesterday.

The address may sound Alpine, but the shortest of downhill walks brings you from Tirol Avenue, on suburban Cork’s Maryborough Hill, to the flat of Douglas village.

Fr O’Neill’s 1-13 Mallow 2-10: Mallow and Fr O’Neill’s have to do it all over again in the U21A Hurling Championship quarter-final having ended all square in Riverstown last night.

The historic Victoria Hotel on Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street has been sold, 18 month after it went to market for sale by tender.