Fifty new jobs are being created in Cork.

Today, June 1

The Irish Examiner columnist Michael Clifford told aspiring journalists how much he loves picking up one thread of a story and then finding another.

An eight-year-old girl who suffered anxiety and stress after she was accidently locked in a classroom for 25 minutes has settled a damages case in the Circuit Civil Court for €20,000.

The words “Vintage Wine” often conjure up a romantic vision of a delicious elixir “cooled a long age in the deep delved earth tasting of flora … and Provencal Song” as Keats put it.

Today, 30 June

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FOOD and wine matching can get over-emphasised these days and unnecessarily panic home cooks.

Budding journalist Elayna Keller showed the power of the written word yesterday when she won a national competition that encourages students to read newspapers.

The trial has begun of a man accused of knocking a hole through a Claude Monet oil-painting at the National Gallery of Ireland, causing €7m worth of criminal damage.

IT ALL comes back to France. That country’s wine sales may have fallen dramatically in recent years, but it is still the benchmark producer for most grape varieties and wine styles.

The European Tour has announced a comprehensive review into the Final Series after Ernie Els strongly criticised the demands on players.

NOW that we can get the same vegetables and fruit in the supermarket in January or July we have lost much of our instincts for eating seasonally.

Court documents have revealed that a woman whose husband killed her and two others at the spa where she worked said he threatened to throw acid in her face and jealously terrorised her “every waking moment”.

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One of Ireland’s premier private members’ clubs was served with a closure order over food safety fears.

The infrastructure needed by Irish speakers is about to be destroyed.

A COMPANY has brought High Court proceedings arising from an alleged deal in which €30m, plus fees, was raised from about 110 Irish and British investors in 2006 and 2007 for purchase of a block of apartments in Shanghai, China.

Next year’s European Tour will again include just one event Ireland, two in England, one in Wales and three in Scotland.

Fine Gael's Brendan Griffin is on course to take a seat in the South Kerry constituency as he currently has 8,808 votes.

WHAT time was it when you heard about Gerry Ryan’s death? It doesn’t really matter, does it, whether it was 2.30pm or 5pm last Friday, or even the following day?

A COMPANY is being sued for €1.9 million in damages over allegedly selling animal feed containing dioxins to a Co Tyrone-based farmer whose cattle herd later had to be destroyed.

THE slowing housing market wiped €21 billion off the value of Irish homes last year.

CORK City Marathon is set to return after an absence of 21 years on June 4th.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man underwent surgery yesterday for injuries he received following a shooting at his house in Cork.

ANOTHER day, another €6 million for AIB, only this time that’s the price expectation for a prime city bank branch about to be off-loaded.

The European Seniors Tour will launch its 14th season with the now traditional “Caribbean Swing” on the islands of Barbados and Tobago in March.

FINANCE Minister Brian Cowen got it in the neck on Budget Day from organisations such as SIPTU, the National Women’s Council and the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) for neglecting the childcare issue.

Irishman Paul McGinley's joint-sixth place in the USPGA Championship in Whistling Straits has put him in the 10th spot for a Ryder Cup place.

ARCHBISHOP Denis Hurley, OMI, who died suddenly in Durban, South Africa, last February, was well known in Ireland.

VOTERS for Sinn Féin in the local and European elections should be aware that they are unequivocally affirming support for the unconditional early release of the killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.

HOW wonderfully ironic to see Fianna Fáil deny citizenship to those who are born by ‘accident of birth’ to the children of illegal immigrants in Ireland.

Former State Pathologist Professor John Harbison today gave evidence in the trial of a 20-year-old Dublin man accused of stabbing his girlfriend's former boyfriend.

I WRITE with reference to the Justice Minister's plan to hold a referendum on the rights of those born on the island of Ireland to automatic citizenship.

SPANISH voters have ousted America’s staunch ally in the war on terrorism and the liberation of Iraq, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

Passengers and freight operators face chaos as Irish Ferries has today withdrawn three vessels from service in an escalation of its dispute with SIPTU and the Seamen's union of Ireland.

IT is said that it takes a whole community to rear a child. In the light of trends in children’s behaviour and lifestyles in recent times, the time has come when the community must take its responsibilities seriously. A city centre is no place for 13-year-olds at 10.30pm. In fact in the light of sad experience it is probably the worst possible place to be.

I AM researching the fate of the Guinness barges that used to ply the Liffey. My information indicates that three of them went to work in Haulbowline.

I AM a second-year student on the Bachelor of Education primary degree course.

SIPTU's Mallow Branch Official, Liam Allen has said that seven SIPTU members employed at the Charleville & District Association for the Handicapped, Charleville, Co. Cork will begin industrial action on Monday, November 24, 2003, in pursuit of improved pay and conditions.