A facilities firm has been ordered to pay €30,000 to a female catering assistant who had her bottom pinched by a chef/manager in a series of sexual harassment incidents involving the senior male employee.

Jack Carty was on holiday in Spain two years ago when Joey Carbery injured some ligaments in Ireland’s defeat of the USA in New Jersey.

They first connected through the social media site, Bebo, and 14 years later Susan Buckley and Danny McCarthy tied the knot.

Now we’re in full flow nesting season, it’s the perfect time to tidy up our domestic eyesores and put plans in place for future easy, stress-free maintenance, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

The Menu only ever believes the season proper has begun with the annual advent of the West Waterford Festival of Food (April 26-28), in delightful Dungarvan.

Nine years living in Laois, John Sugrue considers himself naturalised, but after guiding the Leinster county to a second successive

An accomplished Irish horse-rider who remarkably made a full recovery after suffering an acquired brain injury in a fall, is attempting to be the first woman ever to ride the Camino Way side-saddle

Susan O' Donoghue has been located safe and well.

Remember the name – Irish animator Gary Gill is one to watch, thanks to his hit cartoon and new book, ‘The Day Henry Met’, writes Marie Toft.

Paul Dunlea is the first artist-in- residence for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, which takes place this weekend.

Last month, I spent a morning at the West Cork Women Against Violence centre (WCWAV) in Bantry, writes Louise O’Neill.

I wish to reply to an article in the Irish Examiner (‘Time to pull plug on communion charade’, September 7).

Boosted with the hope of finer weather, Peter Dowdall can’t wait to go in search of a particular impatiens.

Dr Susan Crawford has become an expert in movement skills to help her son and others who are debilitated by catatonia, says Dan Buckley

For shoppers in one North Cork town, information on retail bargains are just a few swipes away.

The Christmas celebrations got off to a glittering start last night as upwards of 20,000 people flocked to Cork city centre for the switching on of the Christmas lights, with Lord Mayor Tony Fitzgerald lighting up the city centre shortly after 7pm.

After the tragedy of losing her husband, Cope helped mum Susan, she tells Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan

The pre-Budget submission from Alcohol Action Ireland demonstrates that there will be a massive price to pay for minimum unit pricing (MUP) by even moderate drinkers.

A volunteer who could not stand by and watch those devastated by the Donegal floods is helping dozens of families to put their lives back together.

I can’t keep up with it, says Colm O’Regan. 

Oh dear.

A fortuitous meeting between a literary couple and a celebrity chef has resulted in one of the world’s most lucrative poetry prizes, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Over its long, 220-years of built history, Cork’s Lotamore House has seen generations of families come and go.

Maggie Gyllenhaal wore Schiaparelli Couture to the Berlin Film Festival, where she was on the judging panel.

Grammy-winning jazz singer Al Jarreau has died in a Los Angeles hospital aged 76 just days after announcing his retirement from touring due to exhaustion.

Siobhán Browne was an outgoing child, happy spinning about in her motorised wheelchair, shooting the breeze with neighbours and friends.

One recent evening, towards the tail end of his annual Christmas sojourn in West Cork, The Menu purchased a little ‘dote’ of his favourite of all cheeses, Milleens, to enjoy by the fire with a fine vino, still intent on staving off the return to reality for another few days. 

Scarred by the horrors of World War One, army veteran Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) opts for self-exile as a lighthouse keeper as The Light Between Oceans (12A) begins. 

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Joe Fitzgerald who died on September 13, 2016, at the age of 94, was a man of very diverse activities — star businessman, Master of Slua Muiri in the 40s, Dinghy and Dragon sailor in the 50s and 60s — cruising man, Commodore of the Irish Cruising Club and Commodore of the Royal Cork in the 70s and 80s and friend and companion to all who knew him.