Plans for a new hostel in a former tourist office in the heart of Cork city have been appealed to An Bórd Pleanala.

A special meeting is to be held by councillors in North Cork to draw up a battleplan aimed at persuading the government to locate a new elective hospital for the county in Mallow.

Tributes have been paid to the generations of volunteers and fundraisers who have supported the Marymount Hospice in Cork as it embarked on its 150th anniversary celebrations today.

Planning permission has been granted for a near €40m RDS-style indoor exhibition and sports centre on the western outskirts of Cork city.

[quote]"We choose a charity partner every year and we try to focus on those charities working with children or the vulnerable."[/quote]

Legendary 1980s band, Madness, have given the thumbs up to a new music video which uses one of their biggest hits to showcase an inspiring Down Syndrome project in Ireland.

Stephen Ryan, who cannot cycle or play sport and who is afraid of slippery leaves and wet manhole covers, is over the moon that Enable Ireland has finally got the kind of facility it needs to match the “amazing staff” and the “amazing services” the charity provides.

Gardaí believe that the gang responsible for attacking a moving taxi with iron bars in Cork at the weekend was also behind a rampage through nearby housing estates during which several parked cars were damaged.

LOVE it or loathe it, tie-dye has been making its groovy presence felt on the international catwalks in recent months.

Management at Marymount Hospice in Curraheen, Cork, say they had to divert motorists away from its most-used vehicular entrance off the Ballincollig bypass

Half of all Irish Greyhound Board sponsorship funds will now be ringfenced for a ‘care fund’ established for the wellbeing of greyhounds.

Building the new dental school at UCC's sports grounds at Curraheen, Bishopstown will involve the decommissioning of some playing pitches on the site.

A significant upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange was first announced in 2011. Cost overruns to the €100m project, revealed by this paper last week, could seeit delayed by up to 18 months, which would mean the entire process will have taken more than a decade. Joe Leogue looks back at the long-awaited plan.

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Marketing guru Stephen Ryan and his family are uniquely qualified to assess the impact of a new €7.5m centre for children with a physical disability which has been built on the outskirts of Cork City.

Marketing guru Stephen Ryan and his family are uniquely qualified to assess the impact of a new €7.5m centre for children with a physical disability which has been built on the outskirts of Cork city.

Plans have been lodged for a €30m indoor sport and exhibition centre west of Cork City as work continues to resolve State-aid funding issues blighting the city’s larger event centre project.

The first ever Munster Agri-Innovation Awards took place last Saturday in conjunction with the Cork Summer Show.

The Munster Agri-Innovation search for winners comes to a climax at the Cork Summer Show on Saturday.

Ireland’s oldest and largest hospice has launched a seven-year strategic plan against ongoing uncertainty over its State funding.

Ireland’s oldest and largest hospice has launched a seven-year strategic plan against the backdrop of ongoing uncertainty over the level of its State funding.

The long-awaited Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) document has arrived.

Stretching as far south as Ballygarvan and as far west as Ballincollig, the new Cork South-West local electoral area is, by quite a margin, the most populous constituency in the redrawn Cork City.

The aptly named Field of Dreams is an arm of Down Syndrome Cork and focused on supporting adults with Down syndrome in the region.

UCC will be ready to apply for planning permission for their new sporting facilities in the autumn as the college looks to build on the incredible success achieved on the field over the last year.

CHARITABLE companies in Cork donated over €2.1 million to local causes last year, according to the 2018 Business Impact Map produced by Business in the Community Ireland.

Seventeenth-century Cork couples had to lodge expensive ‘insurance policies’ of up to €200,000 with their local bishop before they were legally cleared to tie the knot, newly-digitised documents show.

Mary Morrish readily agrees that everyone in Cork knows someone who has benefited from the care and support offered by Marymount University Hospital & Hospice.

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University College Cork is to open a 4,000-student strong Business School in Cork city centre in what is another huge boost for the region.

This one-off property in Ballinhassig is a garden paradise that teems with wonderful features, writes Tommy Barker

Cork County Council has unveiled an ambitious €723m plan for housing, roads, and other major projects which it proposes to undertake up to 2020.

A Cork man accused of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home four years ago has walked free after the trial judge directed the jury to enter a not-guilty verdict yesterday.

A Macroom man was put on trial by judge and jury yesterday on a charge of assault causing serious harm to his wife at the family home exactly four years ago.

News of the murder of their neighbour has rocked the community of Ballincollig, as Niall Murray and Eoin English report.

A special doggie bus will ferry pet pooches and their owners to this year’s expanded Cork Summer Show.