A pioneering Cork-based arts group which hosted artist studios and a Rory Gallagher recording studio has pleaded with City Hall for help finding a new home.

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2016 was a pivotal year for construction activity in Cork and nationwide, up by 15% for the year ended, while further growth of up to 20% is expected locally and nationally in 2017, say international asset managers and professional advisory firm AECOM.

Gardaí have quizzed a juvenile suspect about an arson attack on a Cork school for children with autism.

Almost €4 million was transacted in a Cork-based property auction, with 15 of 25 lots selling under the hammer, at an inaugural DTZ/Sherry FitzGerald southern auction with a further DTZ commercial property auction due with 15 more lots, on July 27 in Dublin.

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.

A fire in a Cork City restaurant which forced the evacuation of around 100 people from overhead apartments could have been started deliberately, gardaí believe.

Gardaí in Cork are appealing for information about the fire at the N Square Steakhouse & Seafood Restaurant in Cork city on Wednesday, June 8.

The design of a city centre building saved lives by preventing a major blaze from spreading to overhead apartments, senior fire officers believe.

Hundreds of people had to be evacuated this morning due to a fire in Cork city.

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A pioneering self-funding community arts group which facilitated a world record and helped spawn a circus has appealed for help finding a new home.

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Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main street by the middle of next year under radical traffic plans due to be published tomorrow.

Hundreds of thousands of euro have been invested in cycle lanes and in Cork another €2m has been invested in the Coca Cola bike scheme. But why do potholes still abound, asks Caroline Delaney.

A €21m plan by the Courts Service to build a new courthouse in Cork City is facing increasing opposition over fears it will lead lead to the closure of several district courts around the county.

From the People’s Republic to the Pedal Republic — Cork’s first public bike scheme went live yesterday, half-finished and six months late.

Vacant shop windows are being transformed into artistic tourist information panels as part of a new approach to tackle dereliction in Cork City.

There are some Americanisms that bug me — like the use of the word ‘already’ out of context or the hijacking of the term ‘awesome’ to refer to anything from agreement to a nice sandwich.

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

After a cycle that took a day and a half, a Cork father was met by Independent TD and special needs campaigner Finian McGrath, as he arrived in Dublin with a letter for the Taoiseach calling on him to intervene in the HSE’s refusal to grant his daughter, who has Down’s syndrome, a medical card.

A father is to embark on a gruelling countrywide cycle to the Dáil this Friday in a desperate bid to force the Government to return the medical card of his daughter, who has Down’s syndrome.

A Government TD is reviewing security at his constituency office after a man doused himself in petrol and threatened to torch himself on the premises.

Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main shopping street on a trial basis before the end of the year.

Hundreds of people have signed up to strip off for a world-record- breaking naked body- painting attempt in Cork this weekend.

A MAN who drowned at Inny Strand in Waterville, Co Kerry, 21 years ago while trying to rescue his lifelong friend in treacherous conditions was honoured posthumously with the highest national bravery award at a ceremony in Leinster House.

A DANISH transport expert (copenhagenize.com) uses an audacious metaphor when talking about cars, vulnerable road-users, namely pedestrians and cyclists, and the unacceptable number of road deaths and serious injuries in urban areas.

THE Revenue published a legal notice in the press yesterday saying that it would petition the High Court on October 15, to wind up Hornibrook Holdings Ltd, a building company, based in Togher, Cork.

DRIVERS gazed in amazement yesterday as they saw buses coming the “wrong way” along what was an established one-way street in Cork city.

A €110 MILLION state-of-the-art private hospital, expected to create 400 jobs in Cork’s western suburbs, was granted planning permission yesterday.

A €110 MILLION state-of-the-art private hospital, expected to create 400 jobs in Cork’s western suburbs, was granted planning permission yesterday.

A DAMNING report to be launched tomorrow will reveal cost overruns to the tune of millions of euro at the Office of Public Works (OPW).

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UP to 80,000 people are expected to go on the streets of Cork today as the city officially celebrates its designation as European Capital of Culture.

CORK city’s infamous riverbanks will be the central focus of the largest outdoor event ever to be staged here when the city is officially unveiled as the 2005 European Capital of Culture on Saturday night.

NEW technology allowing video conference-style international link-ups for court cases is being incorporated into Cork’s Washington Street Courthouse, which will be back in business by the end of January 2005. It is five-and-a-half years since the doors of the historic building closed for renovations.

BLACKPOOL in Cork is one the most successful urban renewal schemes in the country its fortunes have been reversed, and the pace of change continues.

A Belfast lorry driver whose driving caused the death of a 13-year-old boy said in court today, “I wish it was me.”

ENGLISH journalist Ian Bailey is to appeal against the judgment in his libel trial against eight newspapers, it emerged yesterday.

The defamation trial taken by a man who was once described as a suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier opened at Cork Circuit Court today.

Gardaí have seized cocaine with an estimated street value of €100,000 in Cork.

A CORK barrister was formally arrested yesterday and charged with intimidating a witness in a court case at the Circuit Courthouse in Camden Quay, Cork, last November.