Peter Levy recalls the colourful history of the railway lines which ran through East Cork from 1854 to 1987.

Tommy Barker reports on Georgian elegance in old city quarter

CORK’S local authority is to encourage the city’s 40,000 householders to consider installing solar energy panels on their roofs.

A three-storey terrace high over Cork city has an efficient design with views to the river, the docklands, the suburbs and beyond, writes Tommy Barker.

GARDAÍ are searching for a gang of masked raiders after they chased their getaway car at speeds of more than 100mph yesterday.

A ROUNDY house - well, slightly concave, but very liveable, is on the market with Mark Gosling of James G Coughlan and Associates.

A Garda investigation has been launched after the discovery of a man's body in a playground in Cork in the early hours this morning.

A Chinese national who was in Cork to learn English was seriously assaulted by two men who knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the head during a protracted assault and today one of the culprits was jailed for five years.