Yves Rocher, the French skincare company, ceased operations in Cork last year, transferring production to Brittany, with the loss of 60 jobs.

Irish cosmetic manufacturer has announced 90 new jobs in total in Cork and Mayo.

Adrian went to Scoil Oilibheir, Dublin Hill, for primary school and then on to St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris, for secondary school.

'Ask Audrey' has been the newspaper's hysterical agony aunt “for ages, like”.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages...

Tough choices will have to be made to allow delivery of a landmark €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area which includes a €1bn tram system and a €700m plan to upgrade the bus, rail, and bike networks.

The National Transport Authority says it hopes to achieve some quick-wins on the bus and rail network once its ambitious €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area is adopted.

A €1bn 25-stop light-rail system linking Ballincollig to Mahon via a new docklands bridge is among the proposals contained in the long-awaited Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy (CMATS).

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

A coroner has issued a fresh warning about the dangers of window blind cords after hearing harrowing details about the death of a toddler in a freak accident.

A Young Offenders cast member who admitted shoplifting twice at Blarney Woollen Mills had a horrendous history of offending, the sentencing judge said.

Two charges of endangering the lives of gardaí were brought yesterday against a 31-year-old man yesterday.

The 47-year-old man from Passage West who denied arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building where his company had its business was found guilty yesterday.

A 47-year-old man from Passage West accused of arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building and making an insurance claim by deception denied both charges and went on trial by judge and jury yesterday.

The ISPCA said it has not received any information from the public relating to the death of a horse on a residential street in Cork on Tuesday.

Everything from pole fitness classes to a medieval folk play is on the menu for next week’s Cork Lifelong Learning Festival.

A number of bank investments have come to market, with 17 branches nationwide valued at €28.5m, including the Bank of Ireland branch in Mallow, valued at €3.2m, while in Cork, two former bank branches have also come to the open market with Cushman & Wakefield.

Five men involved in a storm in a teacup at the Fox and Hounds pub in Cork were told they were fortunate that the judge had adjourned penalty until yesterday rather than on the day the evidence was heard.

A new history project is the first to attempt to identify and detail every individual killed in County Cork during the Irish War of Independence, writes Professor Emeritus James S. Donnelly, Jr.

Each week we profile one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City Marathon this June.

Time was that road bowling wasn’t so much a tradition in Cork as a birthright. It’s a sport surviving in changed times and changed lives, but only just. Isn’t there an onus on us all to preserve native tradition and heritage?

Two mothers dropping children to school ended up scrapping with each other on the ground outside the school, a court has heard.

At midnight on Thursday, while most of Cork was tucked up in bed, bright flashes of light were turning the sky overhead blue.

Yves Rocher looks set to cut its workforce in Cork by 50%, meaning at least 50 jobs could be lost.

Bereaved mothers who have lost sons to suicide have pleaded with political parties to prioritise mental health.

Following his semi-final victory and a favourable draw 2014 Consolation winner Midtown Raffa will likely head the market for next weekend’s final of the Irish Laurels at Curraheen Park.

The first prize on offer in the Laurels could be decided on Saturday night as the three remaining bitches in the stake have all been drawn in the same heat.

They came from all corners of Ireland yesterday to bid a fond farewell to a giant of a man and of Irish sport – the ‘king of the road’ Mick Barry.

Revenue netted a total of €19.64m for the three months to the end of September, according to the latest tax defaulters’ list.

Think Ring, think Pele, think Kyle, think Nicklau — it is in this pantheon of greats that Mick Barry rightfully belongs. The greatest road bowler in the history of the sport died at the weekend after a debilitating illness. The Waterfall man was 95.

Road bowling: Mick Barry, the greatest road bowl player of all time, died on Saturday just a few weeks short of his 96th birthday.

One of the largest, and best trading pubs on Cork city’s Northside, the 9,000 sq ft Groves in Blackpool, has been put to market by a receiver for €525,000, via agents Behan Irwin Gosling.

A taxi driver who was savagely beaten and robbed while on duty has called for government aid to improve in-car security for cabbies.

Gardaí are hunting for two men who subjected a taxi driver to a violent assault and robbery on the northside of Cork City early yesterday.

Colin Falvey used to scrape by on meagre wages at Cobh Ramblers. Now, he is being paid to stop World Cup winners like Alessandro Del Piero and David Trezeguet.

A "desperado" who stole a minibus for a highly dangerous escapade has been jailed for 18 months.

Travellers have called for urgent action to resolve serious health and safety issues at an overcrowded halting site which has been branded one of the worst in Ireland.

Irish peacekeeping troops on the frontline in Lebanon are on high alert for the possibility the Syrian civil war will engulf the area, military chiefs have revealed, as Enda Kenny becomes the first Taoiseach in 15 years to visit the danger zone.

French skincare giant Yves Rocher is shedding jobs and cutting operational activity by a third at its Cork manufacturing plant.

Sixty nine men left Blackpool, in Cork City, to fight in World War 1 and never returned. Local historian Mark Cronin’s book, Blackpool to the Front, tells their story, which is echoed in towns across Ireland.