Diarmuid Vaughan, Cork Airport Hotel general manager, spent some school years in the US. He spoke to Ciara McDonnell

The HSE is running tests on a number of people in Cork to see if they have detect rabies.

Some may be in need of tender loving care, but properties at this Valentine’s Day auction could provide the perfect match, writes Tommy Barker

This edge-of-city ‘rural’ home has space to attract a wide buyer base, writes Tommy Barker.

Experienced Glen Rovers defender Stephen McDonnell is a serious injury doubt for the Cork SHC final.

A Shillelagh from the infamous massacre in the quiet Cork village of Ballinhassig in 1845 sold for a hammer price of €5,100 at Fonsie Mealy’s summer auction in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, last week.

Bouncy-castle providers are engaging with an Irish-based broker in the hopes of finding a new insurance provider for the sector.

Cork woman Ciara Ambrose travels all over the world in her role with Oasis Class vessels. With 9,000 people onboard, her job is pretty busy, she tells Áilín Quinlan.

A fourth man is being questioned by gardaí in relation to the brutal machete murder in Cork of a Polish-born father.

The garda investigation into the brutal machete murder of a Polish father in Cork last summer is “live, ongoing and active”, the city’s coroner has been told.

This one-off property in Ballinhassig is a garden paradise that teems with wonderful features, writes Tommy Barker

A man who accepted €25 to give a lift to five people who mistakenly thought he was a taxi driver could face a fine of up to €5,000.

The Local Electoral Boundary Commission has recommended the creation of two more municipal district councils in Co Cork and has redrawn a number of them ahead of the expansion of the city boundary.

Cork driver and four-time British Rally Champion Keith Cronin will campaign the new generation Hyundai i20 R5-N in this year’s British Rally Championship that includes rounds of the World Rally Championship (Wales Rally GB) and the European Rally Championship (Rally Ypres).

Tommy Barker admires a warm, lavishly-proportioned custom-built home just beyond Bishopstown in Cork.

A man has been sent forward for trial, on a plea of guilty, for trying to escape garda custody in a courthouse, and on a charge of assault, relating to the same incident.

As customs officers approached a driver for not having VRT on his imported car, the driver sped through a major multi-agency checkpoint in Co Cork, glancing off a garda and being pursued for five miles before being arrested.

Over the holiday period we packed up the car, and like a scene from National Lampoons, headed off - exhaust pipe dragging along the ground, to visit my wife’s parents down in West Cork, writes Richard Hogan. 

Some 20 commercial property lots and investments in Cork, worth in excess of €4.5 million combined, plus 18 residential properties, will feature in the major c 315 lot Bid X1 online auction next month, November 9 and 10, in which €50-60 million in activity is expected to be generated nationally.

Claire McCarthy is an inspiration to the sporting fraternity with her achievements this year.

Ellen Alden’s Irish great great grandfather fought in the American civil war to safeguard his family, says Ellie O’Byrne.

A key section of the main road from Cork City to West Cork is set to close for two consecutive weekends for major culvert works.

A Waterfall home in walk-in condition has plenty of appeal, writes Tommy Barker.

The arc of Arron O’Leary’s life is short but the impact was huge.

See a superb performance by CIT goalkeeper Patrick Collins against NUIG in the Fitzgibbon Cup last night in Cork. 

A man has been banned from driving for 20 years after he drove dangerously from Cork to Clonakilty in the early morning, crashing into a Garda car, repeatedly failing to stop for police, and only finally coming to a halt when gardaí employed a stinger which burst the tyres on his vehicle.

The Irish Examiner National Dairy Show 2016 Supreme Champion was awarded to Laurelelm Shottel Daffodil owned by Rickey Barrett, Ballinhassig, Cork. 

Long views down over a valley just west of Cork City, overlooking the N71 Cork- Bandon Road by the city’s old ‘liberties’, come with this four-bed bungalow at Tulligmore, Ballinhassig.

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