It is important to record that it was entirely due to the sterling efforts of campaigners that the State finally moved to purchase The 1916 National Monument at 14 to 17 Moore Street.

The announcement that the State has finally purchased the derelict 1916 National Monument at 14 to 17 Moore Street, greeted by some as a giant leap forward, raises serious and fundamental questions that need now to be addressed in the public interest:

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the first motorway service station to be built in Cork county.

The address is Newgrange, but the only thing subterranean about No 14 is its basement level car-park.

I wish to thank the Irish Examiner and Jim Roche for their excellent history pullout which appeared in the Irish Examiner on August 23rd last.

A trip to the seaside for a group of children could have turned into a tragedy when a coach crashed and overturned on a motorway in England.

Around 50 passengers escaped serious injury after a coach crashed and overturned on the M5 in England.

A man has died after a crash on the M8 Cork to Dublin motorway.

Dramatic video footage of the moment a car sped past unsuspecting motorists on the wrong side of a busy dual-carriageway earlier this month has appeared online.

One of Munster’s best known bar/restaurant premises, which was sold in 2006 for around €3 million, is back on the market with a guide price of €875,000.

One of the highest number of enforcement orders in 10 years was dished out to cafés and restaurants last month, figures show.

SENSE has finally prevailed in the rejection of the bizarre proposal to relocate the Abbey Theatre to the GPO.

TWO four-bed houses, at opposite ends of Cork city, are for sale through TJ Cronin of Irish and European at the moment.

The parents of a graduate whose remains were found by a motorway in Britain more than a decade after she vanished today spoke of their “untold anguish”.

AMBITIOUS but scaled-down plans to redevelop Cork’s landmark Capitol Cinema site have been given the green light.

DEVELOPER Sean Dunne might have boasted (in vain, so far) about bringing a Knightsbridge vibe to his Ballsbridge hotel sites in Dublin, but a 1970s Cork scheme has at least claimed a touch of London’s Kensington for Rochestown.

ALREADY extended, and with a kitchen smartly upgraded, 14 The Avenue off Church Road, Cork is a great Blackrock trader-upper.

ROCHELLE Court, an apartment and townhouse scheme, was built under two years ago on the grounds of the former Rochelle School.

IF beauty is in symmetry then this house at 14, Copperalley Close, has it in blockloads.

No 14, Johnstown Park in Glounthaune, a cute commuter option on the Cork-Cobh line.

Urgent talks are being held between management and baggage handlers at Aer Lingus today in a bid to end a dispute over the airline’s new check-in area at Dublin Airport.

THE funeral arrangements for Catriona Innes, aged 26, and her seven-year-old daughter, Katelyn, were being finalised last night.

AUCTIONEER Billy Casey has a choice of two solid semis on offer in the inner Cork city suburbs at the moment.

FINTAN LANE of Anti-War Ireland (Irish Examiner letters, August 21) urges Irish people to “continue to raise their voices against such a callous disregard for human life” regarding Israeli actions in the Middle East conflict.

IN recent years there have been numerous well-publicised cases of criminal charges being brought against individuals who have harassed others with persistent abusive telephone calls.

SINN Féin has admitted two of its members broke into a pub in Manorhamilton, threatening members of the public.

THERE was a lot of consideration given to the fixtures and fittings of this house at 14, Rosehill in Carrigaline, Co Cork.