THE Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for 2015 has been awarded to Welsh writer Carys Davies for her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike.

THE waitress in Kinsale’s cosy cafe, Poet’s Corner, confides: “if you were to listen to all the chat and gossip in here, you would have enough material for ten novels.”

An anthology of poets who were born in the province after 1960 is the first since the late Sean Dunne’s 1985 guide, says Colette Sheridan

A judge has told a man who put motorists’ lives in danger by driving up the motorway the wrong way three times, “don’t come out of Cork”.

A garda told a court there were “a number of close calls” for motorists who avoided colliding with a Cork man driving his Mercedes the wrong way down motorway lanes linking Limerick to Ennis.

Radio warnings were broadcast and motorists had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with a man driving his car the wrong way down motorway lanes linking Limerick to Ennis.

As Lohan’s Oprah special starts in the US, Louise Roseingrave traces the wildchild’s strong Irish links

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I am appalled by the hysterical reaction of the Fine Gael members of Cork City Council to the Cork Rebel Week brochure.

HIGHLIGHT of the Cork International Short Story Festival (Sept 18-22) will be a reading by, and public interview with David Constantine, winner of the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award at Triskel Christchurch on Sept 22.

Adaptable, hard-working, expansion-minded, sustainable, caring for the environment — the image of our dairy farmers emerging from the NDC/Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards of 2012 bodes well for their role in Ireland’s ambitious food industry plans.

Nine dairy farms have been short-listed as finalists for the 2012 National Dairy Council & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards. The nine are:

CLAPS and cheers heralded their arrival and while it wasn’t all a song and dance, students plumbed, painted and plastered as they saw a shell transform into a first-ever home for three generations of a family that had lived in a dark shack.

This year’s finalists for the 15th annual National Enterprise Awards have been announced.

THE veteran Irish writer Edna O’Brien was last night named the winner of the 2011 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for her collection, Saints and Sinners. O’Brien received the prize in person, at the Metropole Hotel in Cork. She is the first Irish writer to win.

The veteran Irish writer Edna O’Brien has been named the winner of the 2011 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for her collection, 'Saints and Sinners'.

A BRITISH writer Simon Van Booy has won the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award for his collection, Love Begins in Winter. The €35,000 prize is the richest in the world for a short story collection.

A FOUR-year-old brown gelding was the champion ridden hunter at Dungarvan Show for Co Limerick exhibitor Abbie Shannon. Binders’ Cove, a lightweight hunter, is by Colin Diamond out of Madonna Hill.

COMPETITION is intensifying for the world’s largest short story award.

THE recent announcement of the Arts Council's small capital funding grants to art organisations has caused deep distress across the literature sector in Ireland.

HOW do I love thee? Or, at least, how many ways can I dream up of telling thee that I love thee, even if thee couldn’t care less?

ST COLMAN’S open the defence of their Irish Examiner Dr Harty Cup title with a tricky first-round tie against Cashel CS in Clonmel tomorrow.