Day three of the Cork International Choral Festival sees plenty more exciting events happening across Cork City. Check out some of Friday's highlights here. 

Trish Dromey finds a home that could suit first-time buyers’ budgets.

The move in coming months by the Central Bank to its new €140 million offices on Dublin’s North Wall Quay has resulted in the eagerly anticipated arrival to market of the iconic Sam Stephenson-designed tower by College Green and Temple Bar, along with two other lots, all with a combined value of €80 million.

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Cotter’s, the only general store in West Cork’s coastal village of Baltimore, is for sale.

Work on one of country’s most expensive credit union headquarters has ground to a halt in a stand-off with Dunnes Stores.

Take a determined garden designer, a willing publican and an acre of land on the remote Sheep’s Head peninsula — and you’ve the makings of West Cork’s most eclectic night spot.

Ruby Walsh will miss the Crabbie’s Grand National meeting after suffering a wrist injury in a fall at Aintree yesterday.

It’s a bit early to be thinking about Jagermeisterr but watch this anyway.

Corner-set 43 Somerton Park has been renovated, but not extended, to a high standard. It’s got wide appeal, reckons Tommy Barker.

There’s a touch of the exotic to this 1850 sunny property in St Luke’s Cross, writes Tommy Barker.

It has been reported the unveiling of a new sponsor for the Laurels is imminent, and the incoming backer has signed an initial one-year deal.

The coveted Gain Mares’ Final occupied centre stage at yesterday’s well-attended Ballynoe point-to-point fixture, staged under the auspices of the United Hunt at Garryane, Killavorilla and Kilclare.

’Avoid Temple Bar’ is advice often given to tourists for St Patrick’s Day, as the pub hub of the capital is overrun by tourists, heavy drinkers, and green hat salespeople.

The Foodie Forum incorporating the Gastronomy West Symposium (Tuesday, February 3) at GMIT, in Galway, may be just three years old but already comports itself with a swagger befitting its rapidly-growing status as one of the country’s premier food events.

AN iconic building in Foxrock, Co Dublin, which hit the headlines in July over a rent dispute has been bought, in an off-market deal, for over €1.5m as, separately, a UK investor Development Securities also swept up two other Dublin buys, for a combined €16m.

In just one week they notched up nearly 10,000 YouTube hits, broke into the top 50 of the Irish iTunes charts, attracted fans from as far away as Kathmandu, Boston, and France — and now they’re set to perform in Cork Opera House.

Lonely Planet has urged its millions of readers to take in a game of hurling as part of the perfect Irish hangover cure.

An empty concert seat will be reserved in memory of Daniel O’Donnell’s late mother Julia as the singer returns tonight to the venue that gave him his first big break.

British pub chain JD Wetherspoon has outlined its plan to open a bar in one of Cork city centre’s busiest areas.

While The Menu remains forever enraptured by our glorious West coast, he knows full well that man does not live on scenery alone...

Four African men are due to be sentenced today for a series of attacks in Dublin's Temple Bar that almost cost one man his life.

NEVER mind the showbands — here’s Tommy Tiernan.

A man has been arrested after a woman was shot dead and hostages were taken in a pub.

A retired Central Bank administrator who was jailed for the possession of hundreds of thousands of child porn images and videos has walked free from court after his conviction was quashed because of a misdated warrant.

Mick Flannery returns from the German capital to headline a homecoming gig, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

The man who described himself as the lynchpin for Derry’s year as City of Culture has resigned after just six months in the job.

Three rural Kerry parishes where Garda stations have been closed were targeted by an opportunist gang of thieves in the past week during a crime spree which involved raids on five separate public houses.

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The decision to charge a leading republican with IRA membership was politically motivated, Sinn Féin claimed today.

WiFi network operator Bitbuzz Ireland has today that it now has in excess of one million registered users.

Glass is used to very stylish effect, says Trish Dromey and gives the occupants vantage points to watch the sun come up and go down on Galway Bay

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

Talks are under way for Ireland’s Green Army to return the hospitality given to them in Poland, it has emerged.

Temple Bar is no stranger to eye-catching, traffic stopping, grab the camera phone, kind of spectacles.

A good friend lives on Dean Street and has watched with dread as this stadium has gradually risen almost literally on her doorstep.