The two new arrivals were unveiled to the public today after their births in September and October.

‘I trained in Horticultural College in England and then I got into golf course construction and landscaping. I worked on golf courses all over Europe for years and then moved to Ireland in 2000 and set up my own landscaping company.

Key positives included access to talent, quality third level education and the pro-business policies of successive governments.

Volunteers from the multinational tech company harvest food fresh from Fota Gardens, writes Peter Dowdall.

A visitor to Cork's Fota Wildlife Park got more than she expected when she made the trip to the popular attraction.

For the first time in 30 years I was back at Fota Wildlife Park. How can so much time have elapsed between visits?

Carol O’Callaghan previews Cork Craft Month, when exhibitions, workshops and retail opportunities

Time to drop anchor at Cork harbour’s shipshape Roscuan, says Tommy Barker. Pictures: Eddie O’Hare

Fota Wildlife Park has announced the names of its four new arrivals of endangered Asian lion cubs.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice (new half length cut) The Munster football final is still important — if not as attractive — for a number of reasons.

DEVELOPMENT land on the grounds of the five-star Fota Island Resort, with full planning in place for 88 houses, half of them pitched at the “executive family market” goes to market this week for Fota’s owners the Kang family, via agents Lisney, guided at €4m.

Two critically endangered Black and White Ruffed lemur babies have been born at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork on April 27 to mother 'Cloud', who is 17-years-old, and father Paraic, who is seven-years-old.

What can one de-deuce from this smashing Glounthaune offering? Well, just that it’s game, set and hard to match, Tommy Barker says I

Christy Parker talks to dual award-winning landscape designer Sean Russell

This is the first time Fota have had a sloth reside in the Park.

Drill monkeys are closely related to the Mandrills and Baboons and they are not commonly found in zoological institutions.

€5m has been spent on this Cork harbour castle rescue by Garry and Anne Wilson, writes Tommy Barker.

It is a small curiosity that the same solution has been proposed for more or less all of the great, intractable sporting problems of our time.

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has invested heavily in supporting the third level research brain power needed to underpin the country’s future in renewable energy.

Fota wildlife have welcomed the birth of a baby Brazilian tapir and are seeking the help from the public to name it.

The news is a result of ongoing efforts to help re-grow the species population.

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.

Nowadays, the sounds that predominate on Hop Island, Cork, are horses’ hooves but in the mid-18th century it was more likely to have been the sounds of Bach or Mozart.

She’ll be playing all along so keep your eyes peeled.

MORE investors are getting out of the housing market in Cork than are buying into it, at a time of unprecedented demand for rental properties, with no new supply of any scale, a gathering of the construction sector has been told.

This imposing home and its extensive grounds offer a complete lifestyle package, writes Tommy Barker

Plans are being drawn up to ensure future weather storms will not trap people in a famed seaport town.

Plans are being drawn up to ensure future weather storms will not trap people in a famed seaport town.

A request is being made for Pope Francis to come to Co Cork when he visits Ireland next August, with the racecourse in Mallow likely the best venue to host him.

After the great storm, the big clean up. As crews start to work around Co Cork, much of the fallout from Storm Ophelia will centre on the Cobh area.

In an U21 qualifying group which underdogs Kosovo have taken the early initiative, victory for Ireland in Azerbaijan today (4pm Irish time) is a must for their 2019 European Championship hopes.

Warning: Cuteness overload.

The ramifications from one cuppa.

Latest: The monkey who escaped from Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork is safely back in its enclosure this evening.

Peter Dowdall takes a walk around the blooming Castle gardens this week, where the borders are summer-blowsy.

Ronan Collins, PGA Professional at Fota Island, reckons he can make some kind of golfer out of our reporter, Larry Ryan, at Fota’s state-of- the-art Golf Academy. This week, the lottery of putting

Since he arrived at Cork City, Kevin O’Connor has strived to live up to these goals.

It was a dream that took five years to make a reality. Director Sean McKeown explains to Vickie Maye the significance of the rare birth of a Sumatran Tiger cub at Fota Wildlife Park.

When Colm Cronin hopped, skipped and jumped 15.89 meters on June 26th 1977, little did the Leevale man realise his Irish triple jump record would remain peerless some 40 years later.

Darren Randolph or Keiren Westwood?

Cork City goalkeepers Mark McNulty and Alan Smith are literally lending a helping hand to the Irish cause.

They’re even offering a prize of a year-long Conservation Membership to the winner.

Kya deLongchamps encourages a wide-eyed spring ramble around three of the many heritage gardens of Ireland.