The underlying message to the hour-long show was that chasing perfection is folly and we should have more fun.

A number of residents’ associations are to lodge objections against one of the biggest housing projects ever proposed in Co Cork.

Lords of Strut are among a diverse range of acts playing the Quarter Block Party in Cork this weekend, writes Colette Sheridan.

Forget about mangy lions and escaping elephants, and you don’t even have to run away from home to join.

A Polish man in his 30s is in a serious condition at Cork University Hospital following an attack at the weekend and today a man accused of assaulting him claimed he was acting in self-defence.