Parents of pupils at Cork’s North Monastery primary school have vowed to chain themselves to the gates as they insist plans to move the boys into a merger with a nearby convent school will not go ahead.

It saddens me to write this letter, however, it involves a lot of ladies in Irish life today. Lately, we have been exposed to the horror stories of the Magdalene Sisters, especially in Cork, and how they treated young girls in their so-called convents.

THE former Nemo Rangers site, easily developed and in a cracking inner-suburban setting in Cork City, was expensively acquired by the Fleming Group, and is now for sale for its receivers.

VICTOR Stevenson looks and sounds like your average middle-aged, middle-class Northerner.

Customers at one of Cork’s most famous chip shops can soon take their pick from the runners and riders in a fictional local race card from more than a century ago.

AS the screening of 220 pupils and teachers from Ballintemple National School began, there was no sense of panic at St Finbarr’s hospital.

MILITARY-STYLE plans for Saturday’s big day covered every eventuality — except one.

Four Cork hospitals have now been hit with the winter vomiting bug, it emerged tonight.

CORK’S reign as European Capital of Culture 2005, which gets under way in January, promises a spectacle of theatre, art, music, dance and literature reflecting the life and times of the city and its people down the centuries.

A TRAUMATISED young boy who walked over a mile in torrential rain to get help for his mother and sister who later drowned was still asking for his mother last night.

THEY wanted a baby girl — God gave them two.