Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is an Irish language poet from Tralee, Co Kerry. She co-presents arts show Imeall with Tristan Rosenstock on TG4 on Thursdays.

From Rory Gallagher to Frank O’Connor, there’s an eclectic mix in a new anthology of Cork writings, says Colette Sheridan

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 powerful new book on the life of Derek Mahon sent Thomas McCarthy back to Mahon’s four key works, The Yaddo Letter, The Hudson Letter, The Yellow Book and Harbour Lights.

Cork poet Louis de Paor tells Alan O’Riordan how he thinks some of the richness of our cultural heritage can get lost in translation

IN 1970, fresh out of St Colman’s boarding school, I attended UCC.

A university president went back to primary school for a day to mark the 20th anniversary of his college’s unique link to a gaelscoil.

Public Service Reform Minister Brendan Howlin has refused to reverse cuts to the pensions of retired public servants, saying all of society must play its part in ensuring the economic survival of the State.

The Government is operating undemocratically and akin to a “dictatorship” by pursuing cuts to the incomes of more than 20,000 public service pensioners without any form of consultation with those affected, it has been claimed.

Schoolchildren waved goodbye to cramped classrooms yesterday before a triumphant march into a spacious new state-of-the-art school.

The principal of a primary school that is poised to move to a new building has issued an invitation to all to a series of farewell events.

IT’s tucked in under a cleft on a side road and the elevation gives this little cottage at Inniscarra views over the weir at Ballincollig Regional Park in Cork.

A LOT done, more to do at this house at Coolyduff, Inniscarra, Co Cork. A 3,000-footer, most of the hard labour is complete but some finishing remains.

WORKERS who feel they have been unfairly dismissed from their job could soon benefit from reforms recommended in the operations of the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

THE Government has come under further attack over its decentralisation plans with a leading public service union calling for a major review of the controversial programme.

TWO of the country’s leading public relations companies have agreed to merge.

Michael O’Farrell, Political Reporter

MICHEÁL MARTIN and Michael Kelly worked for almost five years from adjoining offices on the sixth floor of the Department of Health headquarters, yet their accounts of the illegal charging of nursing home patients over that time are world’s apart.

ONLY 46 of the 2,300 employees in State agencies whose jobs are being decentralised have agreed to follow their own jobs down the country.