Cork city is preparing to welcome visitors from 90 countries and dignitaries from over 30 countries this weekend for the SeaFest festival and the Oceans Wealth Summit.

More than 100,000 visitors are expected to attend the country's largest free maritime festival which gets underway in Cork today.

Punks, goths and heavy metal subcultures have all been celebrated in Cork but do ‘pyjama girls’ really merit a place in Irish society? Pyjama-clad reporter Sarah Horgan hits the streets to find out

Cork pair Daragh O’Riordan and Mikey Walsh (Ford Fiesta WRC) won the Rose Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally in Tralee — round two of the Top Part West Coast Rally Championship.

Joan Freeman laughs at the notion that her husband Pat mightn’t fancy the idea of an ex-boyfriend giving her a loan, writes Catherine Shanahan.

A compensation claim arising out of an accident outside the Cork fish stall visited by members of the British royal family and featured in hit TV show The Young Offenders has been settled at the High Court in Cork.

The Cork fish stall which achieved international fame with two British royal visits and as a location for the hit TV show The Young Offenders was the centre of attention yesterday at the High Court where a woman sued for compensation as a result of a fall on the public walkway outside the stall.

The Rebel city has done royal visits before. But for Patsy Flynn and his wife, Kathy, it was their first.

Park the St Patrick’s St car ban and give us back our city.

Clare’s Pádraig Egan (Subaru) won the head-to-head in the four-wheel drive category of the Herospec Rallysprint in Mondello Park yesterday, while Wexford’s Jason O’Keeffe (Peugeot 205) netted the two-wheel drive class and Cavan’s Russell Woods claimed victory in the Buggy class.

People have flown in from Romania to take part in organised begging in Cork City, a senior garda has confirmed.

Fifteen people were arrested in Cork City centre over the weekend as part of an ongoing garda operation targeting suspected organised begging activity.

Fifteen people were arrested in Cork City centre over the weekend as part of an ongoing garda operation targeting suspected organised begging activity.

A High Court challenge aimed at preventing RTÉ from airing a report into the rented accommodation sector was yesterday withdrawn.

Is there a lesson to be gained for Irish rally organisers from Sunday’s Midleton based Imokilly Rally? 

A 50-year-old man set fire to his family home with his four young children inside but he got them out before the fire took off and went back into it alone in a suicide attempt.

Irish Water plans to cut off water to large areas of Cork city overnight on Tuesday to repair a critical mains pipe at risk of bursting.

Investment spend dragged accumulated profits at well-known Cork fishmonger K O’Connell Fish Merchants down by over €122,000 in its last financial year, newly-filed accounts show.

Cork racer Matt Griffin and team mate Duncan Cameron took their Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE to third place in the Silverstone 500, round six of the British GT Championship. 

A review into the proposed merger of Cork city and county councils has recommended both authorities be maintained and the city boundary be extended for the first time in more than 50 years.

Ireland’s oldest indoor food market has been given a makeover.

The Office of Public Works has received almost 500 submissions from the public on a €140m flood defence project for Cork.

As those involved in The Young Offenders get ready for the IFTAs, they tell Esther McCarthy about their incredible year, and some major plans for the future

The two main business groups in Cork have endorsed the OPW’s €140m city flood defence plan.

Cork’s business community is largely critical what it argues is the late entry to the debate of the Save Our City campaigners, writes Eoin English.

Cork’s business leaders have criticised opponents of the city’s €140m flood defence plan amid fears that their “last-minute” intervention could delay the largest scheme of its kind in the history of the State.

Concerns have been raised about the impact of new tour group protocols which are due to come into effect today in Cork’s famous English Market.

Ireland’s oldest indoor market is introducing a tour-group booking system and is capping visitor group sizes to a maximum of eight people at a time in a bid to manage surging tourist numbers.

The State has unconditionally apologised to a family who claimed they were harassed and intimidated by gardaí who called to their home on several occasions asking about a person who didn’t live there.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan has been described as a humble man of integrity and a true gent who support many charities discreetly and charmed all those he met.

The annual awards of Cork Business Association — which is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2017— has heard rousing calls for Cork people to embrace what they have in their city if it is to thrive to its full potential.

Tyre choice for the final pair of stages proved crucial and decisive as Ballylickey’s Daniel Cronin and his Killarney co-driver Shane Buckley won the Banna Beach Resort Kerry Winter Rally for the second time in three years.

Superdry, which was forced to reinstate the famous ‘The Moderne’ sign over its premises in Cork last year following the intervention of planning officials and a formal complaint from a member of the public, has won an award for its preservation of the building.

Antrim’s Desi Henry (Skoda Fabia R5) and his Millstreet co-driver Liam Moynihan netted their second win in this season’s Valvoline National Forest Rally Championship as they cruised to victory in the Mallow based Crafted Furniture & Joinery Jim Walsh Cork Forest Rally, the fourth round of the series.

Although not endemic within rallying, illegal reconnaissance is still a concern.

The English Market in Cork has launched a start-up stall initiative to foster fledgling food businesses.

Two traders in Cork’s famous English Market who met Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 2011 were back in the limelight at Cork Circuit Court yesterday.

Racing driver Jake Byrne has abandoned his Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of the Year programme with immediate effect after it appears he is unhappy with his UK Formula Ford campaign - the prize for winning the prestigious award.

With a clean sweep of the fastest times on all eight stages, the Antrim/Cork combination of Desi Henry/Liam Moynihan (Skoda Fabia R5) won the Abbey Hotel Munster Moonraker Rally in Ballyvourney, Co Cork, the second round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally series.

Newly established food producers will be salivating at the prospect of setting up shop in Cork’s prestigious English Market thanks to a new initiative aimed at attracting new blood to the 228-year old market.