Your columnist is no art expert, though he likes recycling his favourite line of criticism occasionally. (When the King of France viewed Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, he remarked: “M. Géricault, your shipwreck is no disaster.” Kudos to anyone who can mail me the name of the band which used Géricault’s painting on an album cover.)

Caroline Delaney is impressed with this well-laid-out semi-detached bungalow in Cloyne, Co Cork

A rural location within easy reach of city could tempt first-time buyers, writes Catherine Shanahan

Plans for new vehicular access point and expanded parking facilities at a school in Cloyne, Co Cork, have been approved despite objections from a number of local residents.

Diarmuid Ó Dálaigh, proprietor, Oaklodge Nursing Home, Cloyne, Co Cork

A spa, gym, hair salon, post office and art studio - just some of the home-away-from-home facilities which will be on offer at a multi-million 'memory care village' on its 10-acre grounds.

It's somewhat ironic the Naval Service's commander spends most of his days on Haulbowline Island, just a stone's throw from Spike Island where three of his granduncles were interned in 1921 – and a fact he only found out two years ago.

Volunteerism is the bedrock of rural communities striving to defend their services, culture, and way of life against threats from growing centralisation and urbanisation.

Noel Baker A man has been arrested and charged for allegedly taking €20,000 to carry out work on a building and then failing to do so.

There will be some disruption and delays as East Cork hosts Ireland’s first full-distance Ironman this weekend but the regional benefits will be immense in the long-run.

There was drama aplenty in Castlemartyr yesterday evening as Aghada saw off the challenge of their neighbours from Cloyne in a gripping first round encounter of the Cork PIHC.

Eve Kelliher reports on the sale of 1860s-built Ballymaloe Cottage, located adjacent to the world-famous Ballymaloe Country House.

And they called it puppy love... Tommy Barker says an open plan layout in a young family-designed home will create a lot of interest.

€5m has been spent on this Cork harbour castle rescue by Garry and Anne Wilson, writes Tommy Barker.

ON the outside, the former girls’ school in Cloyne has all decorative features and embellishment of the Victorian era – on the inside, it has all the comforts of home.

Mary McGrath is from Ballybrannigan near Cloyne, Co Cork, and is the artistic director of the First Cut Youth Film Festival.

The memory of 200 East Cork men killed in the First World War will be kept alive by a memorial wall in Midleton.

Do not be fooled into a false sense of security by the big thaw, motorists and returning workers have been told.

Residents living near a spectacular 1,000-year-old round tower said to be one of the finest of its kind in the country — but closed to the public for the past 30 years —are to launch a campaign to raise money to refurbish it and reopen it.

‘Dream comes true for Imokilly’ read the headline in The Examiner on Monday morning, October 6, 1997.

Thousands of homes and businesses across the country remain without power and thousands more are without water as the cleanup operation after Storm Ophelia continues.

Brigitte Nielsen and Brodir v George Berkeley and the Pixies. Michael Moynihan takes us through the alternative Ireland-Denmark confrontations

Tommy Barker reports on a superb west Cork family home near Enniskeane with ‘rooms’ for horses

Trish Dromey looks at a renovated gate lodge that is proving popular

Donal O’Keeffe tells the story of the mobile library service which brings a sense of community and joy to people of all ages.

A Cork priest has warned of a growing incidence of suicide among the clergy, citing the death of nine of his peers in the last 10 years.

Cavan’s Gary Kiernan (Escort) and his Limerick co-driver Keith Moriarty took a late victory in the Midleton based Imokilly Rally, round four of the PlasticBags.ie Southern 4 Rally Championship after long time leaders Jonathan Pringle/James Fulton (Escort) crashed out of the lead on the penultimate stage.

Plans are being drawn up to bring in more tourists to an East Cork village by opening up a 30m-high round tower and 11th century cathedral.

Two Cork colleges clash in today’s Harty Cup (Munster Post Primary U18½AHC) semi-final, St Colman’s College from Fermoy and Midleton CBS.

A boil water notice affecting some 10,000 people across vast swathes of east Cork since February could be lifted within days.

A €12.3m upgrade to an ageing sewage treatment plant will facilitate more housing and industrial development in and around East Cork’s pharma hub.

A former senior dean at St Patrick’s College Maynooth said he has a sense of “déjà vu” when reading of the current culture at the college and that he was “shafted” by his superiors when he raised concerns about complaints made against a vice-president there in the 1980s.

Hurling hero Donal Óg Cusack has been denied planning permission to build his dream home on the outskirts of his home village in Cork.

At midnight on Thursday, while most of Cork was tucked up in bed, bright flashes of light were turning the sky overhead blue.

Today is the day to visit the Open Garden at Reggie and Cynthia Browne’s Oak Farm Estate, Carrigadrohid, Macroom, Co Cork in aid of Marymount Hospice from 2pm to 6pm.

A €6.5m solar farm, part of an independent power company’s plans for 11 such projects in Co Cork, has been refused planning permission.