It has also been confirmed that 137 cars have been safely removed from the car park with 10 more due to come out over the course of the weekend.

The poor benighted Douglas village in Cork has been in the wars once more, flooded not too many years ago and now recovering from a fresh trauma in the wake of the terrible fire that has left the Douglas Shopping centre temporarily closed.

“It’s a disaster for the village,” is how the owner of Falvey’s pharmacy, Conor Falvey, summed up the fallout from the weekend fire in Douglas Shopping Centre that has forced its temporary closure.

Cork City Fire Brigade has released the first images this morning showing the extent of damage caused by last night’s huge blaze in a multi-storey car park in Douglas.

A number of eyewitnesses whose cars were parked in the multistorey carpark that was engulfed by fire in Douglas this evening spoke to the Irish Examiner.

I hate the way my kids shrug off a bug, as if they aren’t related to me at all.

I love this time of year and this week I’m sharing some of my favourite ways to spend my downtime in December. For my recipe, it’s my gingerbread cookies and spiced almonds, both great edible gift options, writes Derval O'Rourke.

1. Say it with Flowers

Two Bulgarian women travelled to Cork last week to target elderly women shopping alone in supermarkets, it was claimed in court yesterday as they were convicted of one such crime.

RETAIL developments in Cork in the coming months suggest the marketing of the Wilton Shopping Centre, in a portfolio offer, and TK Maxx opening up in the former Tesco unit in Douglas Shopping Centre.

The owners of a salon gutted by a fire which forced the evacuation of a major shopping centre have vowed to be back in business within days.

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When he moved to LA and made it big, hanging out with the likes of Robbie Williams, Mark Hayes expected a bit of begrudgery back home. But on his last visit to Cork, it was like a different city...

Age: 30

Esther N McCarthy picks her favourites for your interiors pleasure. This week there’s foxy cushions, colour conundrums and furniture with knobs on.

A TOP fashion boutique has become the latest victim of the recession.

CORK’S city councillors did a U-turn last night and postponed the closure of one of the city’s oldest public libraries.

NO surer sign of the economic downturn is the ongoing expansion of some of the country’s most cost-conscious stores, not just the Lidls and Aldis, but our own cost-conscious traders like Heatons.

A WOMAN appealed for witnesses last night after a hit-and-run motorist caused several thousand euro worth of damage to her mother’s new car.

ON Friday, August 24, we lost our way to Douglas shopping centre in Cork. I was driving and when I realised I was in the wrong lane, I signalled apologetically with my hand to a driver in the other lane that I wanted to go in front of him.

An armed raider has escaped with an undisclosed sum of money after holding up a security van in Cork this morning.

TESCO Ireland has been ordered to pay almost €28,000 in compensation after the Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled the supermarket group had unfairly sacked one of its managers in a row about smoking in the workplace.

Cork St Patrick’s Festival Food Market 11am-5pm on March 17. Before the Parade starts until well after it’s finished, Oliver Plunkett St will be teeming with fresh foods gathered from all over the county).

Tommy Barker reports on the overwhelming interest shown in one house.

A PROPOSED €75 million redevelopment of Douglas Village Shopping Centre has been given the green light by county planners.

An arson attack on a shopping centre that caused over €1m worth of damage to six outlets resulted in the culprit who once worked in the centre being jailed for four years today.