Carolanne Rushe has a way of drawing you in. Talk of her travels and how the vertiginous mounds of aromatic spices in the Qatar souk influenced her cooking is enough to whet any appetite.

St Patrick's Bridge in Cork city will be closed to vehicular traffic this weekend due to Irish Water works.

Daniel Dos Santos (24) of Nicholas Street in The Liberties, Dublin had been found guilty of the offence by an 11-1 majority during a jury trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in May.

Skibbereen celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landings on Friday night, with Bridge Street transformed into a wacky lunar landscape populated by astronauts and aliens for the West Corktown’s annual arts festival street party.

Vicky Leng, from Ballinlough in Cork, is manager of the Veritas store on Carey’s Lane in Cork.

A man in his 20s died in a stabbing in north Cork.

One of Cork City’s busiest hotel and restaurant districts is bracing for disruption and water outages during a €20m Irish Water pipe replacement project.

Thousands of Anthony Barry’s pictures have been donated to Cork archives. They offer a look at life on Leeside in decades gone by, writes Marjorie Brennan

A smart revamp of Tralee town centre, nearing completion, has left the town’s taxi operators feeling pushed aside by a pedestrian-focused project.

A 31-year-old man has been sent forward for trial to the Central Criminal Court accused of the murder of his partner, Rita Apine, in her Co Kilkenny home.

Art and music will be found in all sorts of places at Killorglin’s K-Fest this weekend, Neil Browne tells Ellie O’Byrne

Gardaí will now prepare a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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Luckily, no one was hurt.

Councillors are to write to the Office of Public Works (OPW) asking what type of insurance cover it has if its flood prevention projects in north Cork fail, and householders and businesses are inundated with water.

A 30-year-old man has been left in a critical condition following a serious assault in Co Leitrim.

Site clearance works could start within weeks on a Camden Quay office building of 72,000 sq ft, and which could have a transformative impact on an old Cork city centre area less than 100m from St Patrick Street.

Over €5 million could be netted from the sale by auction next month of more than 25 mixed lots in a DTZ/Sherry FitzGerald auction that includes a former city pub, a former suburban Douglas shop, and bundles of apartments, aimed primarily at investors.

And the moment was captured on video.

The Dublin Fire Brigade and DSPCA joined forces yesterday for a very important rescue operation.

A further sample of what was making the columns of the Cork Examiner 100 years ago this week

There’s good news this month on the hospitality front for West Cork’s Skibbereen.

A security alert is ongoing after a suspicious object was found in Omagh.

If there’s blood on the streets of Cork city with its recent wave of new restaurants and bars opening for business, there’s a quarter-cut of the city that may well have a roll to play. It’s McCurtain Street.

THE National Organic Centre in Co Leitrim is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

A young woman who stopped to give a young man directions in Cork was attacked and dragged up a lane. He ordered her to kiss him as he prised her legs apart and she feared she was about to be raped and murdered.

Easter holidays give families the perfect opportunity to get outdoors and take part in some of the many events being run around the country, from egg-hunting to face-painting, says Ed Power.

Brendan O’Neill felt a sense of peace and wellbeing on a visit to the Treaty city.

A body has been found in the search for a missing teenager in Galway.

Two men have been shot outside a church in Northern Ireland.

A second multi-million euro Waterford sale — the AIB bank branch in the heart of the city for close to €2.25 million to a private investor - is imminent. It comes on the back of the just-concluded sale of the Fitzwilton Hotel, to an Austria-based investor, for €3.2m.

The man behind the success of the renowned Clonakilty Black Pudding is to have a street named after him in the town.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a Sunday afternoon mugging at a laneway in Cork City centre.

Two former Cork City sites, associated with boom-time purchases involving Oyster Developments, are being brought to market by Savills.

Many years ago on one of my early visits to the holy island of Sceilg Mhichíl there was much talk at the time of the work being done on the high pinnacle above the island’s saddle.

I never thought I’d replace Cork Coffee Roasters after moving to New York.

Weekend food columnist and McKenna’s Guide contributing editor Joe McNamee is back with his annual accolades. Read on for his best in fine dining, pub grub, afternoon tea and much more, in Cork and around the country.

WHAT a name for a bar to have to trade and labour under — The Poor Relation Grocery and Pub.

WITH our backs to the Town Hall we set off down Main Street, keeping to the left pavement. Skibbereen is, arguably, the most ‘typical’ of West Cork market towns, little changed in the last century.

Billing itself as a top Waterford city four-star hotel, the modern-build Fitzwilton comes for sale with a €2 million price guide, just in time for the city’s 1100-year anniversary celebrations.

Gardaí have uncovered a cannabis grow house in Co. Offaly.

A man in his 30s who was seriously injured in a crash in County Cork over the weekend has died in hospital.