A memorial consisting of three standing stones will honour West Cork men who lost their lives in service during the First World War.

Community activists in Waterford are searching for two landmarks that were stolen last week which date to the 1840s.

Kinsale Garden & Flower Club presents Jean Perry, Glebe Garden on Thursday March 10 at 8pm St Multose Hall,  Visitors welcome.

A Fine Gael junior minister has denied allegations that he told a 72-year-old woman she was an example of the “whingers” referenced by Taoiseach Enda Kenny last weekend.

Could there be a more appropriate, atmospheric time to launch the sale of Carrigrohane Castle than All Hallows Eve, or Halloween?

Former education minister Ruairi Quinn told school authorities that a 200-pupil facility built during the boom needed only “minor” repairs, a year before it was declared a severe fire safety hazard.

More than 200 primary students were attending a school for six years before it was discovered it was a serious fire hazard, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Terra Nova Gardens, Dromin, Kilmallock, Co Limerick, are having their last open day of 2015 on Sunday, August 30, from 2pm to 6pm.

A mother of two has launched a High Court challenge against what she claims is an unlawful demand by the Minister for Social Protection for repayment of money allegedly overpaid to her.

In the beautiful setting of St Peter and Paul’s Church, the congregation has temporarily swelled to almost 300 people — all marking the start of Lent with heads bowed, knees bent, and foreheads daubed in ash.

Peter Dowdall says climate is key to the splendour of this weekend’s Festival of Flowers in Cork Harbour.

Former justice minister Alan Shatter fired a parting shot at ex-cabinet colleagues by donating his ministerial severance payment to a charity that has led the campaign against the Government’s medical card cuts.

Call us, we won’t call you.

The 60th annual Cork International Choral Festival took place at the weekend, with approximately 5,000 participants — the largest number it has ever had. Here are the results.

A former occupational therapist who lost her legs as a child in a tragic farming accident has revealed her lingering hopes of tracing the family of an American GI whose blood saved her life more than 70 years ago.

A nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct by the nursing board, An Bord Altranais, after she struck up a conversation about her financial problems with a patient and ended up borrowing €200 from her.

A nurse has been struck off the register of nurses and midwives after being found under the influence of alcohol and drugs while working.

Two great Irish sports stars walked away uninjured from a dramatic head-on crash in Cork City at the weekend.

Shay Given has described his international retirement as “the biggest football decision you will ever make” but made clear that, for a combination of reasons, he felt now was the right time to pass on Ireland’s No 1 shirt.

Pic1: At the opening of the Irish Examiner Food Festival at Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork, were Susan and Fionnan O’Sullivan.

The sweat was still dripping off Paul Green long after Irish training finished beneath the Tuscan sun yesterday but rarely can a man have seemed so happy about working hard in the summertime when he thought the living would be easy.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI’S ultimatum to what he called the ‘disappeared’ appears to have had the desired effect, with all the squad players communicating clearly with the Irish camp ahead of this week’s friendly game against Croatia at the Aviva Stadium on Wednesday.

TALK about tempting fate.

THE rate of emigration among graduates of one of the country’s biggest colleges has almost doubled in two years, as one-in-eight picked up work overseas within nine months of finishing degrees at University College Cork.

THE passion thing is getting to me.

A STYLISH city pub will be transformed into a catwalk next week to raise funds for sick children.

DO YOU ever wish you could just hop to America and buy clothes for half the price?

FREEING-UP Dublin hospital bed spaces has forced nearly 600 elderly patients into long-term care outside the capital.

EVERY day, twice a day, Mary O’Brien visits her son. She holds his hand, talks to him, comforts him and prays in hope.

A FULL-SCALE garda investigation got underway yesterday into the death of a married mother-of-three, whose body was found in a shallow river, near Tralee, Co Kerry, on Wednesday.

MADONNA’S Who’s That Girl? hit may be more applicable than anyone thought, now that she has decided to change her name to Esther.