Corkwoman Mary Elmes was awarded Israel’s highest honour for saving countless Jewish children from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Less well known is her work helping to feed over 80,000 French schoolchildren who faced near-famine conditions. In an area of southwest France the size of Munster, all of the children knew her name...

Two of Cork city centre’s oldest, and deservedly cherished, buildings come for sale this week, side by side, on Sheares Street, with shades of London’s classic Spitalfields markets buildings to their credit.

NORMALLY, when biographies cause problems for the subject, it’s because of something included in the book.

Much-loved icon of the Seventies the Honey Monster is to return to television screens after the Sugar Puffs cereal brand was acquired today.

A GENEALOGICAL expert has discovered that an Irish builder is a direct descendant of the larger-than-life royal who had a liking for chopping off his wives’ heads.