Some of Cork city’s large department stores will open early on St Stephen’s Day for the sales.

LATE-NIGHT revellers are being offered transport home to several satellite towns in Cork in a new initiative.

PARKING any talk of belt-tightening, the city down south showed it had the nous to knock the best out of straitened circumstances in a three-day extravaganza of jazz and drink.

A LATE night bus service will operate across Cork city this bank holiday as the city gears up for a recession-proof jazz festival which is expected to generate an estimated €6 million for the local economy.