The Queen of England was among the more familiar faces to pass by Stall 42, in Cork’s English Market, in 2011 — but famously she got waylaid in conversation with fishmonger Pat O’Connell.

THERE is good value – even bargains to be had in the property market at the moment, but with strings attached.

THERE’S still a sense of old decency about Montenotte, that high old suburb above Cork city.

A bereaved mother who has spent weeks protesting against the Iraq war outside US President George Bush’s Texas ranch, has said his refusal to meet her only galvanised support for her cause.

A number of children are reported to have been injured in an accident involving a schoolbus in Co Meath.