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. 

A campaign has been launched to keep one of Cork City’s most historic buildings — which is earmarked for sale — in public ownership to promote the city’s maritime heritage.

The Irish mother organising a massive aid convoy for refugees stranded in Calais has urged those moved by the images of a drowned Syrian child to channel their outrage in a practical way.

A ‘wheelie’ good time is in store in Cork as the annual cycling festival rolls in to the city and its environs over the next nine days.

Ireland has been chosen as the 2017 venue for the prestigious International Space University, which will be attended by 260 delegates representing the space industry’s finest brains.

For the first time in more than 15 years, a significant solar eclipse will darken the doorsteps of Ireland.

Most people can reel off the top tourist spots in their home place, but never visit them. So the Clarion Hotel’s writer-in-residence, Louise O’Neill, went on a day-long trip around Cork City

An aspiring astronaut hoping to become the first Irish person in space will share her adventures at a ‘Curiosity’ festival in Cork this week.

School’s out for summer. Now you just need to keep the kids occupied for the next eight weeks.

A creative team from Cork have shot some incredible movie-quality footage of the southern port's industry at work, and it's truly stunning.

The Cork Cycling Festival showcases art celebrating the bicycle, writes Colette Sheridan

AT Blackrock Castle Observatory tonight, the Buzz Aldrin All Stars perform a live sound-track to Spanish artist Esperenza Collado’s series of film loops, Moon.

LAURYN FULLER would rather be an actress than a teacher, but that didn’t stop her explaining the rules of a game invented by herself and her classmates.

IRELAND’S “original ghostbuster” will address a meeting in Cork tonight.

STARS in their Eyes could be the title for a unique concert next week when musical machines are unleashed to an audience eager to hear improvisation in the widest possible meaning of the word.

FESTIVAL fever is set to cause ‘Cosmic Chaos’ on the streets of Cork tomorrow with thousands turning out for the St Patrick’s Day parade.

THE country’s tallest building has been named Cork’s best building.

WHAT do you do when it’s your birthday and you are miles from nowhere with neither home nor hostelry in sight? Throw a party, of course, with the help of friends, family — and NASA.

A NASA astronaut will today unveil what life is like on board the International Space Station with a group of Cork schoolchildren.

A live link between an astronaut on board the International Space Station and his Irish in-laws will be televised tomorrow.