Sometimes you don’t need to travel for the perfect getaway. Karen Funnell enjoyed a rare night away at the Castlemartyr Resort, just 20 minutes from the city.

A centre which has played a significant role in scientific, religious, learning, and economic life through the ages is set to celebrate 25 years of Heritage Town status.

An Open Day at Cuskinny Gardens will be held tomorrow Sunday April 24 in aid of Cobh Community Hospital at Cuskinny House, Cobh. Admission is €5 and there will be plants for sale on the day along with homem

Trish Dromey says this period property in north-east Cork was carefully modernised and now scores a C1 BER.

Archaeologists working on a church in Cork have discovered three burial vaults dating back to the 1600s, pottery, and coins from that period and a 300-year-old underground central heating system copied from the Romans.

Terence Dooley

War reporter Tim Butcher and Irish nomad Manchán Magan are among those telling their tales at the Immrama festival in Lismore, writes Orlagh Ní Arrachtáin

Cute chicks and bijoux beauties jostle for attention in Esther N McCarthy’s list of lovelies.

Commencement of an €18m wastewater treatment plant in Co Cork remains on hold due to uncertainty over ownership rights on the Blackwater.

A play which sheds new light on the bloody pirate raid of a West Cork village in the 1600s will be performed over the next three nights.

A play of the famed and bloody invasion by pirates, of a West Cork village in the 1600s will add another twist to the conspiracy theories about The Sack of Baltimore.

The crypt and church of an East Cork town, with links to Walter Raleigh and Oliver Cromwell, is the focal point this weekend for the 10th annual Youghal Celebrates History conference.

The Bell Tower Restaurant, Castlemartyr Resort,

Having lived next to Fermoy’s Blackwater River for over two decades, I was amazed by UCC Professor Robert Devoy’s claim on RTÉ’s Primetime that Fermoy’s floods were in some way caused by the building of the bridge.

ALL “low hanging fruit” has now been cut from the public service, meaning key services will have to suffer mass staff departures and further funding cuts over the coming months.

SIR Humphrey Gilbert was the Pol Pot of his generation when it came to amassing Irish skulls, many of which ended up being used as medicine by the English aristocracy.

Siobhan Cronin discovers some historic gems on the town’s back streets

The Restaurant Show 2006 is on this month, from Monday 18 to Wednesday 20, at the Olympia in London. It is the only show dedicated to the restaurant trade.

MUCKRIDGE House is a landmark Youghal period residence that, as well as carrying a heritage listing, comes with a 100-acre farm on the outskirts of the ancient town.

IT’S surprising that, in the Celtic Tiger boom, a town as historic and pretty as Lismore isn’t swamped with holiday home developments.

HITTING an international market with a world-class property bristling with security features on the day the US attacked Iraq may be a blow to the best-laid sales plans of the French owners of an Irish mansion.