The charity is holding it's annual National Respite Weekend in Cork this year.

A special Dublin city council meeting will be held tonight to replace any of the members who were elected to the Dáil during the general election.

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In this year of significant commemorations, Dr Aodh Quinlivan of UCC’s Centre for Local and Regional Governance recalls the Cork Corporation elections of January 15, 1920, and the first meeting of the Corporation on January 30, at which the doomed Sinn Féin man became the city’s first citizen

Kenneth O'Flynn made the announcement just hours after Fianna Fáil omitted him from their completed ticket in Cork North-Central.

Electric cars are too small and lack the range required for the Lord Mayor’s needs, according to Cork City Council.

The school which has produced more Lords Mayor of Cork than any other is set to honour three iconic past-pupils - two of whom died in the struggle for Irish independence and the brave man who succeeded them.

‘There's something about Christmas,” goes the Barry’s Tea radio ad.

Details have been announced of a special local authority centenary commemorative meeting in Cork next month to mark a key moment in the birth of the nation.

“Will it be a tale of goalkeepers?” George Hamilton intones portentously as the camera zooms in on Kasper Schmeichel. “Will it be a tale of goalscorers?”

'Ask Audrey' has been the newspaper's hysterical agony aunt “for ages, like”.

Imagine for a moment you were the kind of John Bull-ish Anglo United fan who wears St George’s Cross underpants to bed. It would certainly have been a gutting week for you.

"Blimey. We almost beat the European champions in a game 90% of us had presumed would be heavily lost. And so now, please hold me back, lads."

Robert Hume tells of the eccentric MP for Athboy, Co. Meath – born 300 years ago this month – who thought he was a teapot, and was afraid his spout might break off.

Tumultuous events seen at their enactment as unprecedented, are often insignificant and measure history repeating itself.

The High Court has ruled today that Lord Magan, a member of the British House of Lords, is not entitled to a new tenancy of the €20m Castletown Cox mansion and 500-acre estate in Kilkenny which he had put in trust for the benefit of two of his three children, Edward Magan and Henrietta Black.

Oscar-winning Hollywood icon Jeremy Irons has given his time free of charge to help a heritage centre produce a series of short films detailing harrowing, true stories of the Great Famine in Skibbereen, Co Cork.

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Eoin Edwards hit the road to Ulster, and the Lakeland County of Cavan, for a taste of Downton Abbey-style hospitality.

Colin Sheridan With the sporting summer we’ve so far had — Irish cricketers storming Lord’s, young Irish soccer players dazzling in Europe, young Irish sprinters winning medals, and some lad from Clara winning the Open up north, you could almost be forgiven for forgetting about the hurling.

Murtagh was the star of the morning’s show with five wickets for just 13 runs from nine overs.

James Anderson has been ruled out of England’s four-day Test against Ireland at Lord’s due to a calf injury.

Joe Root insists England must beware of “sleep walking” into their inaugural Test against Ireland at Lord’s today.

Renowned film producer David Puttnam has described the public criticism of Liam Neeson after a controversial interview earlier this year as “embarrassingly” quick.

Metallica's first Irish show in a decade kicks off this evening at Slane with an estimated 75,000 fans expected to attend.

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Two brothers who claim they suffered harassment and abuse from neighbours in England have lost a landmark Supreme Court bid for compensation from their local council.

Michael Clifford joins Grace O’Sullivan, the Green Party candidate for Ireland South in the upcoming European elections, as she takes to the campaign trail on Shannonside.

A Meath priest has urged parishioners to be mindful of their belongings after thefts from two people during Mass last weekend, which have been described as 'a new low' by a Garda Sergeant.

Sean Cronin doesn’t feel he was scapegoated for Ireland’s poor Six Nations display in Italy last month.

Julian Assange has been found guilty of breaching his bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and faces a jail sentence of up to 12 months when he is sentenced at Crown Court.

According to South Africa’s New Straits Times, a 51-year-old conservationist has become a second Jonah; he was swept into a whale’s mouth.

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Mick Finn, Lord Mayor of Cork city, was born and raised on Friars Walk but has also lived intermittently in Athlone, Dublin and Sydney. He atttended Sullivan’s Quay, Deerpark CBS and UCC

Where were we? Three weeks without a column, due to Klopp’s disregard for the cup and TV’s disregard for supporters, the landscape has barely changed.

Limerick will be without God’s man on the terraces when they line out at Croke Park for the All-Ireland Hurling final.

It would seem that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is in great peril of having his sometimes associated appellation of Lord extended in full format to ‘Lord Ross of the Granny Grant’ in the eyes of many citizens.

It was not until the second half of the 19th century that the expansion of golf in Ireland truly took flight, writes Paul Rouse.

I am a proud DONT KNOW, as far as the Irish pollsters are concerned, writes Cormac MacConnell.

A father of four who died following an assault in Mitchelstown, Co Cork was remembered as a "one in a million family man" who loved a good chat and had a hearty laugh, his requiem mass in his native Ballindangan heard today.

The luck of the Irish ran out last night for Erin McGregor, who fell at the final hurdle in the race to make the final of this year’s Dancing with the Stars.

Is childhood a thing of the past? Seems so, when the Children’s Rights Alliance is in favour of the Government’s decision to set the so-called digital age of consent at “the lowest age possible” which in this case is 13 years.