The controversial afternoon car ban on Cork’s main street has been suspended until early August.

Cork City chiefs are sticking to their guns on the St Patrick’s St afternoon car ban, saying it needs three months to be assessed properly.

A free pre-Christmas parking scheme is being introduced in Cork City earlier this year in a bid to boost trade.

Almost 56,000 students received the results of their Leaving Certificate last week, and while most hope to go on to college, many find choosing a suitable course a daunting task.

A city councillor has offered a €100 reward for information leading to the return of an historic 19th-century fountain gifted to the people of Cork but which officials admit has been lost.

The Munster Indoor Masters Championships drew a wealth of experience to the Nenagh track last weekend. Stephen Barry was there to watch veteran track and field stars who remain forever young.

A 25-year-old general operative has lost a €60,000 damages claim for personal injury in the Circuit Civil Court and was left facing a hefty legal bill after he was ‘betrayed’ by his Facebook page.

There have been calls for a review of pedestrian crossing times in Cork City following complaints that people aren’t being given enough time to cross some of its busiest roads.

The ashes of a War of Independence leader have been returned from the US and interred in the Republican Plot in Cork’s landmark St Finbarr’s Cemetery almost 40 years after his death.

Children more worried about dogs than traffic

It’s a great little country, a great little sick country.

A review has been ordered into the management of day-time closures of the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork after urgent repairs caused traffic chaos at the weekend.

Cork’s city councillors have dismissed legal advice and decided to pursue the introduction of bylaws to regulate rickshaws.

THE medical board of Waterford Regional Hospital has warned that it is greatly concerned by “attempts to obstruct or frustrate” efforts to reorganise hospital services in the south east.

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AN end is in sight to the crisis that has left almost 20,000 households in Cork city without water after city officials last night predicted its damaged treatment plant would return to full production before next Sunday.

A YOUNG man killed when a gunman indiscriminately sprayed bullets into a group of friends gathered in a garden “was an innocent bystander who had stopped there for a chat”.

THERE’S a youthful look about the current UL Bohemian team, but there was also maturity in the way~ they won a deserved 14-6 opening day AIB League victory over Galwegians at rain-swept Annacotty on Saturday.

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KATHY O’Beirne’s story of sexual abuse and rape at home and in a number of religious institutions led to angry scenes on early morning TV yesterday when heated outbursts forced the makers of TV3’s Ireland AM to take an unscheduled break.

THE family of a Dublin woman, whose autobiography is a best-seller in Ireland and Britain, yesterday publicly disputed allegations in the book that the author was beaten and abused by her father.