From Italian fashion to food and photo-sharing, a select group of start-up companies based in the heart of Cork City are embarking on a 12-week course designed to hone their skills across an eclectic range of issues.

AT a family gathering in Cork City on a recent weekend, I walked through a Japanese garden, the owner of which is a dedicated cultivator of bonsai trees.

Bank of Ireland has selected Cork as the test bed for its first ever accelerator programme which will be home to 10 innovative start-ups from September.

A pregnant woman suffering from appendicitis died on the operating table weeks after a surgeon mistakenly removed her ovary instead of her appendix, British medical watchdogs heard today.

Is the brain drain a constraint or an opportunity for growth?

Bill Liao’s daughter’s diagnosis with type 1 diabetes has fired his latest passion — reprogramming biological cells.

The Irish whizz kid who, at just 12, became the world’s youngest app developer has unveiled a new game that’s set to be another smash hit.

They are the computer programmers of tomorrow who are hardwired to succeed.

Cork is set to host one of the world’s top 10 social media events this weekend for the second year in a row.

An informal group helping children and teens develop their skills as computer coders started in Cork last year — and it’s just about to go global, writes Tommy Barker

With the eurozone crisis showing no sign of letting up and the Irish economy receding in the last quarter, Brian O’Grady looks at what the current climate is like for start-up businesses seeking investment

BIG world, or small world? For people like Bill Liao, it’s both.

A GAS well blow-out in south-west China turned a 10 square mile area into a death zone, killing nearly 200 people as they slept or scrambled to escape a cloud of toxic fumes, officials and state media said yesterday.