CORK is poised to open a new chapter on its heritage, past and present, this weekend. Nano Nagle Place, the unexpected oasis near the city centre, will unveil a combined bookshop, print gallery and map room.

Engagement in voting, and civic leadership are vital to ensuring that Cork in future offers its citizens the sustainability on which the city is currently failing to deliver, writes Shane Clarke.

Greed was behind a fraud by one of Ireland’s biggest cattle exporters which saw diseased cattle delivered to Morocco.