Transport chiefs in Cork have promised a “soft and subtle” reboot of the controversial car ban on the city’s main street, insisting the measure is vital to avoid chronic traffic congestion and secure up to €200m in investment in public transport.

Half-price parking deals, an extended park and ride bus service, and new city centre set-down areas are part of a package of measures planned as part of the reintroduction of the controversial afternoon car ban on Cork City’s main street.

The Green Party in Cork is to host a town hall-style public meeting under the banner of ‘End Dublin Rule in Cork’.

Pack the running shoes and maybe leave the car.

A teenager bit a chunk of flesh out of the cheek of a 37-year-old man during a fight in Cork City.

An inner-city community in Cork has called for air quality monitors to assess the impact of the St Patrick’s St car ban on their area.

Business leaders in Cork have given City Hall two weeks to iron out teething problems with the new St Patrick St car ban.

A Chinese woman was seen by a garda chasing a fellow national down Cornmarket St in Cork City and then head on the ground.

A market stall which was blocking views of a listed pub in Cork’s traditional street market quarter has been moved.

Some of the longest-serving traders in Cork’s historic street market quarter have backed calls for a new strategy to save its street trading tradition from extinction.

One of Cork’s leading publicans is considering legal action against the city because vacant market stalls in its traditional market quarter are blocking his listed building.

Businesses in Cork city are planning to hire private security to ‘police’ their area following a major escalation of serious anti-social activity.

City chiefs have been asked to crack down on unauthorised parking on a new riverside plaza which was unveiled just weeks ago as part of a €2m regeneration.

There has been a dramatic rise in penalties for illegal parking in Cork City, with a 37% increase in the number of parking fines handed out by traffic wardens last year.

Staff at Cork Penny Dinners were verbally abused by a drunken man who fell asleep after they had given him a three-course meal.

Four days, 1,200 musicians, and 40,000 punters later, the 34th Guinness Cork Jazz festival will tonight come to a close following a weekend of beats, blues, and boater hats.

Builders and painters have teamed up with an arts collective to rejuvenate some historic lanes, urban green spaces, and derelict hotspots in the heart of Cork City.

An ongoing and chronological look back at 1916 and what was "in the news" at the time - as reported in the Cork Examiner’s of 1916. 

A shoplifter who had a compartment in her apron for concealing stolen goods assaulted a shopkeeper during a theft, but yesterday she only pleaded guilty to the crimes so that she could get out of jail.

A man has been arrested and charged with a count of assault causing harm to an 79-year-old man in Cork City.

Cocaine worth €47,000 was found concealed in the wheels and frame of a travel bag brought into Cork Airport on a flight from Portugal.

A man with multiple sclerosis who displays a disabled driver badge in his car was arrested and taken to Cork Prison in his wheelchair after refusing to pay a €40 parking fine.

The number of parking fines issued in Cork City declined by 22% last year with almost 7,700 fewer tickets handed out to offending motorists.

Not content with running 12 pubs and a brewery, publican Benny McCabe has revealed plans to develop two micro-distilleries in the heart of Cork City.

From the People’s Republic to the Pedal Republic — Cork’s first public bike scheme went live yesterday, half-finished and six months late.

To mark the Irish Craft Beer Festival this weekend, Joe McNamee gets a taste of the local brewing scene.

More than 35,000 parking tickets were issued by Cork City Council last year, with almost 100 offenders being fined every day.

Flood-hit traders in Cork City, who are bracing for more misery tonight, have pleaded with the Government to fast-track the delivery of a multi-million flood defence plan.

There have been calls to extend a city-sponsored painting grant scheme which has breathed new life into Cork’s historic spine.

A consortium that owns some of Cork’s best-known pubs has initiated proceedings aimed at preventing Irish Bank Resolution Corporation selling its loans to Nama.

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.”

Members of the public have been invited to have their say tomorrow on plans for a bike-sharing scheme in Cork.

CORK CITY COUNCIL has done an amazing job on reinvigorating Cornmarket St (Coal Quay) in Cork city.

THERE were mixed views on the streets of Cork as new bylaws reducing the speed limit to 30km/h in parts of Cork city centre were implemented yesterday.