The family which has owned a popular city pub for more than a century has built a micro-brewery in the basement and launched a range of craft beers and stouts.

An article published in this newspaper in 2007 outlined how Benny McCabe was “no fastidious accountant, with his eye fixed firmly on the bottom line. For McCabe, pubs are a way of life.”

UP TO €1m is to be invested in a new micro-brewery in the old heart of Cork city, the Coal Quay.

Summer bird cages, iconic rock stars and kooky crafts are all part of the weft and warp of Esther N McCarthy’s wish weaving.

A LARGE bogland scene from the artistic eye of Minister Jimmy Deenihan is among more than 200 anonymous paintings to be offered for sale in aid of the South Cill Rialaig artists’ retreat centre this weekend.

YOU can’t put a price on fine art, and now it seems you can’t put a name on it either.

IMAGES of Cork’s newest shopping precinct which is being developed in one of the city’s most historic trading areas were unveiled yesterday.