The route of the first Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon to be staged on a Sunday has been tweaked to avoid clashing with morning Masses.

A controversial bus lane has been retained as part of a €4m upgrade plan for one of Cork City’s busiest access routes, despite pleas from residents to scrap it.

Ford Cork workers Noreen O’Mahony and Michael Ring went on an unusual first date — a spinning fitness class.

Residents have called for the scrapping of a bus lane on one of Cork City’s busiest roads after figures show there have been more than 100 accidents in the area since it was installed.

There have been calls for a review of pedestrian crossing times in Cork City following complaints that people aren’t being given enough time to cross some of its busiest roads.

The manager of a supermarket was punched in the face as he and staff escorted a drunken man from the premises. The culprit was yesterday sentenced to two years imprisonment with the second year suspended.

A “good Samaritan” neighbour was hailed a hero last night for helping to save a man trapped upside down in a kitchen press.

Now that the operation of one local authority for Cork is being considered, the first item on the agenda has to be the removal of the chicane at Inchigaggin bridge on the Model Farm Road where the city and county authorities have drawn their border.

It’s fast food in more ways than one — Cork Asian street food company Ramen has opened its second Cork outlet at Dennehy’s Cross, doing a key restaurant unit deal with UK-based Comer brothers.

Friends, family and work colleagues of two Cork-based Malaysian chefs feared the men had died in Thursday’s doomed MH17 flight — only to get confirmation almost 24 hours later that the two men had actually travelled home to Kuala Lumpur on a different carrier.

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A man caught with heroin for sale or supply outside a supermarket told gardaí the brown substance in question was gravy powder.

An Irishman who died in a skiing accident on the Swiss Alps on St Stephen’s Day was described at his requiem Mass yesterday as a courageous free spirit who packed an extraordinary amount in to his short life.

The Cork Midsummer festival opens tonight, kicking off an eclectic mix of weekend fun that includes Elton John, vintage Formula One racing cars, and pirates.

A DEAL worth around €16m has been reached on the first bank/receiver sale of an entire apartment and retail scheme in Cork, at suburban Dennehy’s Cross.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country

A potential conflict of interests has delayed a major flood defence plan for Cork, it emerged last night.

Two teenagers who followed two young women separately through the streets of Cork City, hitting one with a bottle and subjecting the other to a violent sexual assault, have been jailed for nine and eight years.

A 93-year-old man who watched the 1938 Cork Grand Prix in awe is gearing up to attend a re-run of the event this summer.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines for a grand prix circuit down memory lane.

Archaeologists have trained volunteers to map headstones and record the stories and folklore from historic cemeteries as part of a nationwide project aimed at reaching out to the Irish disapora.

GLENARN’S a family home in the very best sense of the word — and it works, superbly.

CARRIGALINE, Co CORK €295,000

GARDAÍ are preparing a file for the DPP after releasing without charge two teenagers who were questioned about two attacks on women in Cork City on the same night before Christmas.

TWO men were being questioned by gardaí in Cork last night about vicious assaults on two women within hours of each other before Christmas.

PLANS for a “local retail centre” in Cork’s western suburbs have been shot down after councillors voted unanimously againstrezoning.

THEY’VE been known for years by their number alone — but now the number’s up for some of Cork city’s busiest bus routes.

PLANNERS in Cork city are poised to recommend a rezoning to facilitate the development of a “local retail centre” featuring a Tesco Express store in the western suburbs.

A VOLUNTEER group has developed an interactive website mapping the graves of some of the most famous people buried in Cork’s historic St Finbarr’s Cemetery.

NEARLY 70 Health Service Executive staff are to be relocated to temporary offices next week after a fire broke out yesterday in the building they normally occupy in Cork city.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

CORK’s older suburbs must be near bottoming out in terms of price drops — they have the benefit of not having much opposition being built around them anymore, and ease of access is always going to win out in these expensive commuting times.

GARDAÍ made special arrangements yesterday to ensure a beautiful bride got to the church on time.

Bus Éireann has today outlined alterations to services in Cork during royal visit this Friday, May 20.

YEARS of trawling around old houses makes one immune to mould, damp and peeling wallpaper.

A NEW green route walking path, through woods and along the glenside of the Donnybrook stream, will link the house scheme The Vicarage with the very heart of Douglas village in Cork, and, almost coincidentally, make it an easy stroll to the suburban village’s two churches. And schools. And shops, bars and everything else.

CORK’S city manager has defended the policy of taking money from developers in lieu of affordable homes.

RESIDENTS lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála yesterday against plans for another apartment block in a Cork suburb.

THE number of new high-rise buildings in the Bishopstown and surrounding areas of Cork city has been further highlighted by the recent granting of planning permission for yet another such development at the Dennehy’s Cross junction.

RESIDENTS will plead with Cork city’s planning boss today to stop over-development in their area.