Quinlan’s Seafood Bar is seeking to expand into number 55 Oliver Plunkett Street.

Connacht’s survival hopes in the Heineken Champions Cup may depend on a superb home record which has seen them lose just one of 14 games at the Sportsground in Europe in the past five years.

With wonderful wildlife on its doorstep and close proximity to the city centre, Westbourne Terrace has much to offer, writes Tommy Barker

Kids’ TV presenter, writer and first-time mum Muireann ní Chíobháin is learning that less is more when it comes to what babies really need, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Connacht produced a frustrating and sloppy performance on their way to a bonus point victory over Southern Kings in the PRO14 on Saturday.

A nerveless Conor Fitzgerald penalty 13 minutes from time clinched European victory for Connacht as Andy Friend’s side battled bravely to launch their Champions Cup campaign with an impressive Sportsground win.

Corner-set Oakhurst has UCC, and the five-star Hayfield Manor, on its doorstep, says Tommy Barker

Cork City South Central was previously a small electoral area but it represents a very different proposition after the expansion of the city boundary.

Chief executives from some of the country’s best-known firms have been lined up by an enterprising 20-year-old UCC student to appear at a business leaders forum in April.

WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

Joe McNamee has travelled the country reviewing restaurants for his Weekend column. Here, he pays tribute to the very best in his annual food awards

The landmark Kino building in Cork City has roared back to life with a stunning dragon mural.

Connacht captain John Muldoon said that Simon Zebo has probably put his international career ‘on the back burner’ by going to France, but the veteran star can understand why he has made the move.

The new owner of a landmark building in Cork has defended his decision to erase one of the city’s most iconic pieces of street art.

The late Danny la Rue would have been 90 today. Dan Buckley recalls a memorable encounter with the Cork-born entertainer.

Many people played a role in Henry Ford setting up the plant in his ancestral home in Cork, and one of the unsung heroes may well have been the Lord Mayor of Cork when the factory began production in 1919, William F. O’Connor.

A multi-million euro private medical investment at Cork’s historic Lotamore House has just come to completion, after an 18-month-plus gestation.

They will need to close the blinds and put away the breakables when Connacht sit down to review this one at the Sportsground today. It will not be pleasant viewing, least of all for a squad who pride themselves on looking inward and taking responsibility.

The family of a young man who died earlier this year have launched a memorial fund in aid of the organisation which retrieved his body.

While thousands of Leaving Cert students will be celebrating their results this week, many of those who wish to go on to third-level education face an overcrowded housing market, reports Dylan O’Connell

Gardaí have arrested a man who burst into a house in Cork city brandishing a knife, threatening two women.

There was absolute silence in the room when he mentioned it. “There will come a day when Connacht will go through this town on an open top bus parading a trophy.”

Tommy Barker reports on a Cork city property which has been carefully rebuilt with salvaged materials after being completely gutted in a fire.

The search is on in Cork for a 49-year-old tortoise named ’Schumacher’.

Gardaí investigating the mysterious disappearance of a man in Cork City last month have issued a fresh appeal for a taxi driver and three other men to come forward.

Gardaí are investigating after a taxi driver in Cork had a knife held at this throat during a robbery by a man on Christmas Day.

A UCC student has claimed that the college’s health centre turned them away after they had presented following a suicide attempt.

FROM the exterior, there’s barely a hint of the quality to be found within the three-storey home at 3 Sunview Terrace — it’s one to view if you want lots of well-finished city home for your euros.

Today, at lunchtime, I witnessed an elderly couple being knocked down on a footpath by a cyclist on College Road in Cork City. The woman was thrown head-long onto the roadway by the impact and would certainly have been injured or even killed but for the absence of oncoming traffic.

The location near UCC almost guarantees interest, writes Trish Dromey.

DUCKLINGS go to college? The sight of a troop of ducklings streaming in line after their mother through the gates of University College Cork had a definite, sentimental charm, but I saw it not so much as an endearing picture of “adorable, fluffy little creatures” seeking knowledge, as a testament to Nature’s unfailing geography of survival.

HOUSES — and, especially, those in cities — don’t get much calmer than the Victorian gem at 9 Fernhurst Terrace, on Cork city’s College Road: it just exudes relaxation.

Needless to say, a championship meeting with Waterford means something more to Seamus Harnedy than most of his Cork colleagues.

DO it up, or knock it down? Both are options at Rose Cottage, a restoration project — in the politest terms — on one of Cork’s most ‘prestigious’ addresses, the Model Farm Road. 

A LIMERICK City bank building, on O’Connell Street and Bedford Row, is being sold for as much as €10m — a recent Munster-bank investment sale price record.

Two waterfront apartment blocks in Cork’s suburban Rochestown, totalling 50 units, are up for sale in one lot, with a guide price of €6.75 million, or an average of €135,000 each. They come to market at time of proven and competitive demand for multi-let investments.