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

Black metal act Altar Of Plagues operated on a different level to their peers.

SOME time ago, I reviewed a selection of Cork’s very fine range of independent coffee shops.

A market stall which was blocking views of a listed pub in Cork’s traditional street market quarter has been moved.

Hot on the heels of the circa €4m investment sale of the former Pavilion retail unit on Cork city’s prime shopping thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, comes another section of the 1921-built ex-cinema.

A restaurant-building investment, in the belly of Cork City’s food district, the Huguenot Quarter, is for sale, with three tenants in all, including a long-established eatery, the Strasbourg Goose.

The relocation of fashion retailer Cari’s Closet from Carey’s Lane to Patrick Street, Cork, brings 12, Carey’s Lane, to the letting market.

A range of improvements for passengers at Dublin Airport are to be submitted for planning permission.

A popular Cork city centre restaurant has been gutted by fire.

A taskforce set up three weeks ago to target begging and street crime in Cork City centre led to 15 people appearing in court yesterday.

The investment arm of the Davy Group has made a further retail swoop on Cork city’s Patrick Street, having bought the Moderne last year for circa €4-5 million in an off-market deal.

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Cork’s Academy Street and its adjacent Huguenot Quarter is coming out of recessionary doldrums — and is becoming a foodie quarter: a slew of new restaurants has arrived, with more to come.

A former boxer-turned entrepreneur is part of a team which is stepping into the ring to revive one of Cork’s best-loved music venues.

An historic home on Cork’s northside is in line to become a medical clinic after a recent grant of planning permission.

I’M NOT sure how many points opening — or in this case rejuvenating — a restaurant registers in the National Optimism Rebuilding Programme.

The Menu is taking his brain out of the vaults once more for its annual airing at The Great Irish Foodie Quiz 2014 (Oct 7@7.30pm). 

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

VINTAGE clothing has come of age. Something, perhaps, to do with the fact that all previously-loved clothes have a back story.

Oil on canvas entitled The Vegetable Seller at Cork, estimate €800 to €1200, at Hegarty’s Auction Rooms, The Bypass, Bandon, on Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012 at 7pm.

Tourists coming to Cork can now take a 360-degree virtual tour on Google of the interiors of local pubs, restaurants, and hotels before going on to visit the venues in reality.

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

A BOUNCER was fined €400 yesterday for assaulting a man after he was removed from his nightclub.

CITY officials have begun talks with traders on Cork’s main street to secure a €20,000 contribution towards the public Christmas lights.

PLANS to restore Cork’s historic Huguenot cemetery were finally rubber-stamped last night.

CAMPAIGNERS welcomed a decision by Cork City Council last night to save one of only two Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe from controversial development plans.

SOME of the world’s leading historians have backed a campaign against controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

CAMPAIGNERS vowed last night to fight controversial plans to build on one of only two historic Huguenot cemeteries left in Europe.

IRELAND’S Huguenots will be commemorated in Cork on Sunday - in the first service of its kind in over 200 years.