Brain injury support group Headway has launched a campaign to raise €2 million to fund the creation of a major trauma recovery centre in Cork.

This one-off property in Ballinhassig is a garden paradise that teems with wonderful features, writes Tommy Barker

There’s plenty of room to swing a tennis racket or a golf club at a late sports legend’s home in Cork, writes Tommy Barker.

A cyclist who did everything right was killed by a motorist who turned around momentarily to tell one of her children to remove a tag from a toy they had just bought.

Travellers living on halting sites are in need sturdier cabin-like homes, not caravans, to protect from increasingly severe storms, a local authority meeting heard last night.

Storm-affected Travellers have been told that any family which refuses all reasonable offers of replacement accommodation will have their emergency housing payments stopped.

WILL one of Cork city’s longest established suburban bars have a rendezvous tryst with development fates?

Tommy Barker views a well-built 1970s home which has benefited from two significant extensions. 

A jury at the inquest into the death of a Cork student who went missing before being found in a river near student accommodation has recommended that University College Cork carry out a safety review of the grounds of the site.

Cork City Council is close to acquiring 106 acres and a period house near the Lee Fields and the Model Farm Road for possible use as a greenway amenity, in a deal valued at more than €2.2m.

A 23-year-old university student claims his constitutional rights were breached after he was evicted from his parent's home by the Cork County Sheriff on foot of an order obtained by KBC bank.

Tommy Barker says this example of contemporary design, at just 10 years old, benefits from a mature setting on Model Farm Road.

As Cork City Council and the Office of Public Works draw up plans to erect controversial flood defences in the city centre, the Irish Examiner brings you an alternative view. All this week, we highlight the shortlisted entries to the Save Cork City competition to unlock the potential of Morrisson’s Island in the heart of the city centre and reimagine what its future might hold. Some are brave. Some are bold. But all are designed to spark debate. The overall winner will be revealed in the Irish Examiner next Monday.

Set to move from war-mongering and munitions provisioning to worship and prayer is the former Gun Store, a relic of Cork’s Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.

Carrigrohane Lodge dates to the late 18th century, experiencing much changes. It still has plenty to offer, writes Tommy Barker

A special application has been made to Cork County Council for permission to develop a Traveller horse grazing project on the outskirts of Cork City.

The OPW and a voluntary campaign group are at odds over how to combat flooding in Cork. Eoin English examines what may be coming on stream.

The ISPCA and the Department of Agriculture have backed plans for Cork’s first Traveller horse grazing project.

WHEN you have the option of downloading apps such as Strava and Map My Ride to your phone, creating your own cycling routes or browsing someone else’s, why would you buy a book compiling nearly 50 cycles around Munster?

A new homes scheme from O’Flynn Construction is due on site any day now in Cork’s Kerry Pike, but it’s unlikely what gets launched, and at a yet to be determined price, will come for sale on anything like a quarter of an acre, with a double garage for good measure.

A Corkman who had previously received a three-year suspended jail term, for mugging an 81-year-old woman, risked having to serve the sentence after burgling the home of a garda.

Today is the perfect day to take advantage of the quiet roads and pedal your way along some of Munster’s best cycling routes, says Dan MacCarthy

It was with interest I read Fergus Finlay column (Irish Examiner, January 19) taking a genteel swipe at Micháel Martin’s Fianna Fáil and also Fine Gael policy.

Homeowners and businesses across Cork were yesterday recovering from Storm Frank’s fallout — and bracing themselves for further hardship.

Hot on the heels of a recent multi-million euro sale agreed of Carrigrohane Castle a kilometre away across the River Lee as the raven flies, and in a different price league too, is this high and hillside family home, in walk-in condition, called Naomhóg.

The search for a man in his 50s who is missing, feared drowned, in the River Lee in Cork is due to resume at 9am this morning.

BACK a few decades ago, when the mansard-roofed detached dormer Springmount was first built, it might have seemed a bit ‘out in the sticks’. But, now — while it is still reached just after a charming rustic chicane bend in the road by Carrigrohane’s Rocklodge — it seems as if many metaphorical roads are leading towards it.

Thank you for publishing your edited version of my letter (Irish Examiner, February 25)

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a Cork cemetery, with 5,601 plots, which will be the first privately-run facility in the city or county.

His Irish roots spring up regularly in John Lydon’s autobiography, fuelling his anger, but the affable ex-Sex Pistol also has fiery reserves for others, writes Ed Power

Cork camogie captain Anna Geary, who is also the city’s 2014 Rose, has backed a huge charity cycle in West Cork which will help boost the coffers of six charities.