The owner of a Cork city cafe has criticised “grossly overpaid” TDs for accepting a €2,000 pay rise during a bus strike which has left major cities outside the capital without public transport for over two weeks.

Striking bus drivers marched through the streets of Dublin yesterday but the issue in Cork City and other areas affected by the continuing dispute is the opposite: A noticeable drop in footfall.

One year on – Oliver Plunkett Street traders reflect on their ‘Great Street Award 2016’, writes Marjorie Brennan.

The force of Storm Desmond has been shown in Cork city.

The Social Media Awards are taking place tomorrow night, and we’re excitedly picking out the perfect socks to wear, charging up our phones for a night of tweeting, and bracing ourselves for the mountain of chocolate we’ve been promised.

Several big-brand retailers are poised to breathe new life into Cork’s St Patrick’s Street and help it shake off its tag as the street with the highest vacancy rate in Ireland.

The Menu’s most recent visit to Kinsale was for the purpose of first broadening mind before waistband, at the newly opened Kinsale Gourmet Academy, in Ballinacurra House. 

Plans to locate a Starbucks to a much loved listed building in Cork has provoked outrage in some quarters. Ed Power looks at yet another US behemoth that is loved and loathed.

People encouraged to support local firms that ‘struggled along’

A popular pub in Cork has spoken out against chain brands coming to the city centre.

A war of words has erupted over an ‘artisan food market’ staged during Cork’s St Patrick’s Festival amid claims that some stalls were selling imported frozen food.

The Glenisk and Cloughjordan House initiative, a ‘Chef Star’ competition for secondary school students, is aimed at finding Ireland’s best student chef.

THERE are a million and one sayings that people have used down through the years as inspiration to live life to the full, but #YOLO (You Only Live Once) is a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm.

Michael Noonan said in the Dáil recently that he was inviting the hospitality industry to forward proposals for alternatives to his hiking of Vat on fun by 50%, to 13.5%.