I was home to Cork for a funeral in recent days. It was a profoundly emotional week and I was prompted to write my first ever blog post on the bus up to Dublin. It seems to have resonated with a lot of Corkonians, both living there and living abroad.

Chef’s Table, Chapter One,

One of Cork’s best-known food products could soon be ranked alongside champagne and Parma ham as moves are under way to seek special EU legal protection for it.

Perfect stocking filler to put you in picture

It was a bittersweet prize-giving for double-Olympian Peter O’Leary at the newly refurbished Kinsale Yacht Club late on Saturday evening.

If the first two days of the Covestone Asset Management Sovereigns Cup were branded “champagne sailing”, yesterday was the cork being firmly shoved back into the bottle as fresh to strong winds took their toll across the 90-strong turnout.

IT APPEARS we have a very serious case of ‘noshtalgia’.

The new president of the Cork Business Association (CBA), entrepreneur Ernest Cantillon, says that co-operation will be the theme of his presidency.

Technology giant Apple is on course to double its workforce at Half Moon Street in Cork City as it expands its European headquarters in the city’s suburbs to cater for 3,300 employees.

APPLE COMPUTERS is bringing 400 more jobs to Cork city centre, swelling its workforce at Half Moon Street to as much as 800.

A business lobby group is planning a major campaign to press the Government into fast-tracking its overhaul of the State’s commercial rates system.

Butcher Tom Durcan has become the first English Market trader to lead the Cork Business Association (CBA).

THE Queen of England has thanked Cork’s best-known butcher for welcoming her to the city’s historic English Market.

CORK experienced a tourism windfall yesterday after a historic day at the city’s port.

THE Queen of England spent just 20 minutes strolling through Cork’s landmark English Market on the last day of her historic state visit to Ireland.

FOR decades, they’ve been experts at selling the freshest of produce.

A CCTV system went live in one of the country’s oldest markets yesterday as part of a security initiative.