Gardaí believe that the gang responsible for attacking a moving taxi with iron bars in Cork at the weekend was also behind a rampage through nearby housing estates during which several parked cars were damaged.

A Cork woman has told of her terrifying experience when the taxi in which she and her partner were travelling last weekend was attacked by a gang of youths armed with iron bars.

A Cork hairdresser who is providing free hair cuts for Holy Communion children who come from vulnerable or needy backgrounds has encouraged salons across the country to follow his lead.

A South African student who ran out of money in Cork set up an elaborate scam for getting phones through fraudulent bill-pay schemes and then selling them on the internet.

A Cork hairdresser is collecting Easter eggs to give to the homeless.

A couple who were homeless broke into a house in the hope of finding a place to stay and yesterday they were both jailed for four months.

When the first and only-ever owner of Clomona moved into her new home in the first half of the 1900s, there were fields all around her Glasheen purchase. Now, many decades later, it’s all houses.

Lots of boxes are ticked at 40 Sandymount Avenue, in Cork’s Glasheen, so a new owner can just move in and start their own personal tweaks, as they see fit.

It’s stating the obvious but... wow. There certainly is development potential and buying interest/profiles at the inner suburban, Edwardian Cork home named Dunleary.

A trembling 82-year-old Cork woman brought a courtroom to a standstill as she asked how the big strong men who told her they were robbing her could do what they did to old people or any people.

ALL tucked away in a cul-de-sac corner of The Orchards, off Cork city’s Glasheen Road is this large-ish family home, called Tuirín.

There’s something pleasantly self-contained about a cluster of houses at the core of Lima Lawn, an estate of mostly semi-detached homes between Cork city’s Magazine Road and Glasheen Road.

DUCKLINGS go to college? The sight of a troop of ducklings streaming in line after their mother through the gates of University College Cork had a definite, sentimental charm, but I saw it not so much as an endearing picture of “adorable, fluffy little creatures” seeking knowledge, as a testament to Nature’s unfailing geography of survival.

Journalist and author Vincent Power recalls interviewing Bill O’Herlihy in 1997 for his book, ‘Voices of Cork’.

WHAT’S probably the biggest bar complex outside of Cork City centre has come up for sale in boom-town Ballincollig, with a price tag to match.

A motorist was caught driving without insurance for the 73rd time and yesterday he was jailed for five months.

There are different and unexpected ways to lose a tenant – but a constituency redraw is one of the more unusual.

Recently, I went early to Páirc Uí Chaoimh with a threefold purpose: (1) to watch a couple of senior hurling matches involving four clubs with a decent record of success to their credit, and, hopefully, be entertained by them.

Size: 98sq m (1050sq ft)

TWO top Munster bars, one in Cork City’s suburbs, the other in East Cork, have come up for sale for a receiver, with best bids sought by the end of July.

Size: Sq m 45/65 (500/700 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 110 (1,200 sq ft)

Sq m: 66 (710 sq ft)

Sq m: 83 (900 sq ft)

Size: 149 (1,600 sq ft +400)

Dunkettle, Cork €425,000

Headstones and monuments at a plot maintained by Sinn Féin activists in Cork's St Finbarr's Cemetery on Glasheen Road have been targeted by vandals just 24 hours ahead of Easter Rising commemorations tomorrow.

SKEHARD ROAD, CORK CITY €245,000

In extracts from his new book, Bill O’Herlihy recalls his childhood in Cork, an Evening Echo secret, and why he has an eternal soft spot for both Dunphy and Giles

DOUGLAS, CORK €395,000

As a child, I had a very mature singing voice, but I thought everybody sang like me.

Lios na Laoi has all the essential ingredients to recommend it, writes Tommy Barker

OVENS, CORK €295,000

Brian Lalor has survived by pursuing his interests as a printmaker, illustrator and author, says Colette Sheridan

Archaeologists have trained volunteers to map headstones and record the stories and folklore from historic cemeteries as part of a nationwide project aimed at reaching out to the Irish disapora.

The date was Sunday, February 27, 1898, the venue was Cork’s famous suburban lake at The Lough and the top prize was a second-hand bike with golden ball bearings.