The Ford Motor Company wouldn’t be where it is today without the hard work of Cork employees, the firm’s executive chairman told its pensioners in City Hall.

The Canadian Mounted Police last night issued an appeal for Irish holidaymakers who witnessed the aftermath of a road crash in which three people died to contact them.

A quarter of Apple’s 16,000-strong European workforce is now based in its headquarters on the northside of Cork City.

Tech giant Qualcomm is to establish its first major Irish facility in Cork with an initial team of up to 100 people, with the potential to scale up to several hundred jobs in the medium term.

Britain’s police watchdog has confirmed it is investigating whether the car which crashed into a Cork family — killing a 16-month-old boy and an unborn baby and seriously injuring their parents — was being chased by police at the time.

TEATIME wasn’t progressing too well that evening last week – negotiations with the two-year-old on blueberries as a viable dessert had broken down irrevocably, it seemed – when a half-heard comment at the end of the radio sports news seeped through.

STARS including Barbara Windsor, Ronnie Corbett and Roy Hudd gathered to say farewell to Danny La Rue.

A ‘NEW Cork’ beckons down-river of the existing southern city — but locals can’t yet see it.

CAVAN’S Paul Brady collected a cheque for $25,000 (€17,637) after winning the US Open of Handball in California on Sunday night.

The Green Party tonight called on voters to give it a strong mandate to enter government for the first time after the next general election.

German drugs group Altana is to open a facility in Cork which will eventually employ 150 people.

A British Coroner's Office is appealing for the Irish public's help in tracing the relatives of a woman who died recently.

Irish Computer Magazine has ranked Qumas as one of Ireland's top 10 software exporters.

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