A landmark viewing stand overlooking the Blackwater River in Youghal is likely to collapse into the sea after Cork County Council reportedly decided it was too expensive to restore.

An east Cork town hopes to reverse a long-term commercial decline on two of its main thoroughfares by transforming the area into an arts quarter.

A progressive community development organisation is to align with a new municipal body to boost the development of East Cork.

Planning permission is being sought to build supermarkets on two former textile factories in an east Cork town.

A museum curator who is retiring from business is seeking a buyer for his entire collection of more than 800 household artefacts which date from 1850 to 1950.

MANY visitors to Listowel seek out John B Keane’s bar, or the street where another famous writer, Bryan MacMahon, lived.

Barely dismounted from Cheltenham, some of the racing world’s top jockeys are now set to brave Youghal’s main street.

HIGH streets and town centres throughout Ireland have come to look the same in recent years, with regular department stores and the brash brand names of largely overseas multiples increasingly dominating the streetscape.

YOUGHAL celebrates its historic link with seafood tomorrow when the town hosts its first mackerel festival.