Several homeless Traveller families who were asked to vacate emergency accommodation in a hotel yesterday refused to leave Cork City Hall until their housing needs were addressed.

A 34-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of attempting to rob a man after meeting him through the fabguys.com website for a tryst in a carpark.

Gardaí are hunting for three suspected arsonists after fire gutted a derelict listed former asylum in Cork city.

There have been calls for a halt on the development of student accommodation in residential areas of Cork City until a coherent planning policy on such projects is adopted.

A planning application for a student apartment complex in one of Cork’s flood-risk zones has been lodged which the backer say will help ease the city’s chronic student bed shortage.

A Cork medical school dropout who sent threatening letters to 10 of his past supervisors and tutors at the Royal College of Surgeons has been given a three-year suspended sentence.

Four brothers who lost their mother to Alzheimer’s have helped their father organise a fundraising cycle in her memory to help other families caring for a loved one with dementia.

As a teenager, he watched in awe as it flashed past at a record speed of 147mph.

Postcards depicting streetscapes 100 years apart are to be given free to people in Co Cork as part of an attempt to attract the diaspora back to the county for The Gathering.

A 93-year-old man who watched the 1938 Cork Grand Prix in awe is gearing up to attend a re-run of the event this summer.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines for a grand prix circuit down memory lane.

Four of the 3,500 Irish patients fitted with allegedly defective DePuy orthopaedics hip joints have been given leave by the High Court to serve personal injury summonses on the US company.

Cork’s city manager has released an internal planning probe ordered by the ex-environment minister, John Gormley, almost two years ago.