Multi-award winning journalist Fergal Keane will receive a Cork Hall of Fame award at the upcoming Cork Person of the Year Gala Awards.

The sale of the Irish Examiner to The Irish Times as part of a package of media interests will be good for jobs, the newspaper brands and for the industry in general, both parties to the deal have said.

It isn’t very often that the frenetic chatter of the Irish Examiner’s newsroom dies to a whisper.

With ink in his veins and who once famously described himself as “a chemist by training, a shovel engineer by vocation, and a manager by desperation” is the first person in the history of the Cork Person of the Year Awards to be inducted into a Hall of Fame.

A former army officer who set up a music school with the aim of promoting music as a tool for social inclusion is the winner of Cork Person of the Year Award.

Ted Crosbie, the dominant force for more than four decades in the company which became Landmark Media, was in many ways the ideal proprietor.

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Current Landmark Media Investments shareholder Ted Crosbie pointed out, in recent years, the Irish Examiner has survived “the Famine, World War 1, the War of Independence, the Civil War, the Great Depression of 1930, de Valera’s Economic War of the mid-30s, World War II and several recessions”.

THIS decade of centenaries has underlined the power, wisdom and necessity of remembrance.

The work of St Luke’s Home, a care facility for the elderly located in the Cork suburb of Mahon which has operated in the city since the 1870s, was celebrated yesterday at the launch of its annual fundraising campaign.

The President unveiled a striking sculpture on the grounds of one of the country’s most famous secondary schools yesterday to mark the 125th anniversary of its foundation.

George O’Mahony, who has died at the age of 88, was a former company secretary of Cork Examiner Publications Ltd and a director of Thomas Crosbie and Co Ltd.

One of the country’s most dynamic care facilities for the elderly faces a funding shortfall of €1m a year, in part due to the Government’s Fair Deal scheme for those in nursing homes.

“A piece of social history,” was how Enda Kenny described what is perhaps one of the last accounts of the life of a lighthouse keeper.

The Irish Examiner kicked off a promising new era last night as the newspaper set about taking on the challenges of the changing media landscape under new ownership.

The Irish Examiner and a number of regional print titles and broadcast investments are being acquired by Landmark Media Investments Ltd. through a financial restructuring of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited after a receiver was appointed to the group.

The wife of former Tánaiste Peter Barry was described at her funeral Mass yesterday as “a lady in the best sense of the word” who had a caring heart that reached out to all.

The Lightkeeper: A memoir

THE appalling immorality of tonnes of “unsuitable and non quota” white fish being dumped dead or dying into the Celtic, Irish and Atlantic seas is horrifying.

LAST Sunday at Crosshaven more than 70 boats participated in the Autumn Series, Whitesail 1 and Whitesail 2 together with Classes 3 and 4 raced in the harbour.

THE passing of scrum-half rugby legend John O’Meara breaks a link with a famous golden Irish rugby era that yielded Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Five Nations titles.

IT was a busy week for cruisers at the RCYC, with a good turnout for race four of the O’Leary Insurances League.

A CHEMIST by training, a shovel engineer by vocation and a manager by desperation.”

A drifting mark off the Old Head of Kinsale upset the opening day of the Sovereigns Cup yesterday where 101-boats have gathered to decide the biennial trophy event.

A FLEET of speedboats will cross the English channel in May in a fundraising endurance voyage for the RNLI.

SUMMER sailing is over, but it’s a busy time for south coast sailors with Cove SC hosting the SCORA Championships and the RCYC hosting the ISA All Ireland championships this weekend while the weekend after that, the O’Flynn Exhams Autumn Regatta begin at Crosshaven.

WITH the nights getting shorter, racing started at 6.25pm at RCYC this week. Race officers Stephen and Rebecca O’Shaughnessy with Jonathan Horgan sent the fleets out into a light south-easterly breeze on Course 93 up to No 3, then a dead run back to Cage, before a reach down to No 12 and then a beat back to Corkbeg where the wind shadow of Ft Carlisle created a few problems rounding the mark.

WARM tributes were paid last night to former Cork and Limerick city manager, Jack Higgins, with councillors describing him as “very efficient public servant” and “a strategic thinker”.

THE HM Yachts Autumn series continued at RCYC. In a brisk north westerly breeze Race Officer Roy Hanan (Plumbat) and his team opted for course 74.

A UNIQUE 19th century map showing the rich history of one of Cork city’s newest shopping precincts was unveiled yesterday.

A SPECIAL plaque has been unveiled to commemorate the 150-year historical connection between the Crosbie family – owners of the Irish Examiner – and Cork city centre.

HIS devotion to his wife and family was remembered yesterday at the funeral Mass of the late George Crosbie, the former chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, who died last Friday at the age of 83.

HUNDREDS of people from all walks of life turned up to pay their last respects yesterday to a man who was the longest serving newspaper editor in the country.

THE slash-and-burn policy of the Department of the Marine and the proposal to shut the stations on Valentia and Malin Head show the immaturity of the officials, a touching faith in technology and the innocence of a teenager engaged in sporting activity with a Wii simulator.

A €1 MILLION refurbishment of an Alzheimer and care for the elderly centre in Cork is due to be completed next March and a special fundraiser is being held to defray the cost.

TED CROSBIE (Letters, July 14) welcomes an incinerator in Ringaskiddy. He tells us of the virtues of an almost magical sounding proposal where we would all be provided with recycled energy.

TED CROSBIE (Letters, July 14) makes the point that incineration has two principal qualities: reduction in the amount of waste going to landfill and generation of heat.

THE current furore over the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin is an echo of a similar outcry in the Cork Harbour area over the past few years in relation to the proposed Ringaskiddy unit.

A DIRECTOR of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, owners of the Irish Examiner, was one of five luminaries to receive honorary doctorates at University College Cork (UCC) yesterday.

ERUDITE jester John Cleese, of Fawlty Towers and Monty Python fame, entertained key players in the Irish business and media worlds at the Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) annual dinner in the company’s flagship headquarters on Cork’s South Mall last night.

A DIRECTOR of Thomas Crosbie Holdings —which includes the Irish Examiner— is one of five key figures in the worlds of education, literature, business and philanthropy to be awarded honorary degrees at University College Cork next month.

The group managing director of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd. (TCH), Anthony Dinan, has paid tribute to Michael Geary, outgoing chief executive of Cork Chamber.

GAIA’s recent global day of action against incineration (September 7) struck a tender chord among many people in Cork.