A city is to unveil its plans for a new “Central Park” on the site of a massive former dump.

A display of paintings at Crawford Art Gallery invites you to guess if the artist is John Butts or Nathaniel Grogan, reports Tina O’Sullivan

Grogan and Butts debate is the focus of Crawford exhibition, says Des O’Sullivan

VERNON Mount House in Cork has been synonymous with motorcycle scrambling for more than 40 years. To most people, the house is just a building that stands in the middle of the circuit.

NINE months ago I drew attention to the wall paintings by the 18th century Cork painter, Nathaniel Grogan, at Mt Vernon House in Cork, which are at the mercy of the elements.

ONE of the success stories of Cork's reign as European Capital of Culture (CoC), the city's Crawford Art Gallery, has every intention of carrying the momentum on into 2006.

DURING its tenure as European capital of culture, Cork’s Crawford Municipal Gallery is expected to lose four of its significant paintings.