I see there are huge rows about building flood walls around Cork City Centre. Do you know if these walls will stop the lower orders from fishing in the river? 

A man jailed for damaging a Claude Monet painting estimated to be worth €10m has lost an appeal against conviction.

Après Match of the Day has the comedy crew delving into Ireland’s glorious soccer history on Monday.

A call by Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune not to hike prices ahead of this year’s tourist season was yesterday described as a “cheap shot’’ by a prominent figure in the industry.

Forget student loans — hundreds of Irish college students are signing up for sugar daddy dating. Helen O’Callaghan reports.

A major fundraising concert is to be held for a mother of two children who helped collect €1m for various charities but who now needs help herself after suffering a debilitating stroke.

It’s fully Christmas now and Esther N McCarthy rides to the rescue of the those who’ve left it a little late in the gift-getting stakes with some fab suggestions.

IT’S been a long day already for James Galway, his schedule filled with a host of media appearances and other duties in the run-up to a performance at the National Concert Hall.

Everywhere he goes, Michael Jacob is looking, searching for his daughter.

A new baby can cause a spike in our use of home energy but, as Lucy Taylor discovers, changing our behaviour can reduce usage by 15% or more.

HOW GOOD is Henry Shefflin? Where does he stand in the pantheon of the hurling greats? For a cross-section of opinions we asked nine players for their assessments of the man simply called King Henry.

Micheal Martin has been elected on the first count in Cork South Central.

A NEWBORN baby from Cork who is fighting for his life at a Swedish hospital underwent further surgery on Sunday after doctors became concerned about the positioning of tubes in his heart.

Godolphin may have endured a pretty miserable start to the season but as Burnett provided them with yet another winner at Newcastle they will not want it to end.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court will today set a date for a trial over the Navan bus crash which claimed the lives of five schoolgirls almost three years ago.

A KILLING, a garda siege, the besieged killer taking his own life — the sequence of events whose final tragic outcome was the pointless waste of two lives is a not unfamiliar drama.

CAN it possibly be true that there is even a hint the powers that be are considering taxing us to use the public road?

THE recent Dáil statement by the Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, that the current works at Cork airport do not allow for the provision of air bridges has come as a shock to all of us who have been campaigning for the development of Cork airport.

A COUNTY councillor spoke yesterday about how he came across a horrific head-on crash which claimed the lives of two people.

Detectives today renewed an appeal for information about the unsolved murder of a young woman who was viciously knifed to death near her home three years ago.