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One of the country’s oldest independent bookshops, Liam Ruiséal’s in Cork City, is set to close later this year after more than a century in business.

An Oscar-winning director has given his seal of approval to an aerial ace’s new book of stunning photographs of Cork from the air.

The family behind one of the country’s oldest independent book shops will celebrate 100 years in business today with an eye on the next chapter of their remarkable story.

A new book on Spike Island reveals, in the Victorian era, it was the biggest prison in the whole of Ireland and the British Isles.

ANY book that manages to introduce a classic hard-boiled LA-based private investigator; a plea for help; as well as the expression “it’s fiercebad” in the first dozen pages is surely a good thing, like.

Your little one will be cute as fox with this drool-busting bib from Cork company, Babyboo. 

While Cork will seek to change the terms of some home-and-away arrangements while Páirc Uí Chaoimh is being rebuilt, Páirc Uí Rinn is likely to host senior inter-county championship games for the first time.

Cork GAA are set to miss out on the lucrative Christmas market as a new county jersey will not be released before the new year.

THERE is no question that books will eventually be bought almost exclusively online or that we are living through the end of an era for the printed book.

THE cost of school books and accusations about unnecessary new editions pushing up costs have been the subject of debate, radio discussions and pub talk in recent days, as parents do the last of their back-to-school shopping.