PARKING any talk of belt-tightening, the city down south showed it had the nous to knock the best out of straitened circumstances in a three-day extravaganza of jazz and drink.

TICKETS have just gone on sale for what promises to be another epic Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The October Bank Holiday event will feature more than 1,000 musicians from 29 countries.

ROARING ticket sales, record visitor numbers and a bigger-than-ever programme of events have conspired to make this year’s Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork the biggest in its 30-year-history.

U2 FRONTMAN Bono was rumoured last night to be planning to join tens of thousands of music fans in Cork this weekend for the city’s jazz festival.

JAZZ reigns in Cork this bank holiday weekend with a powerful blast coming last night from the organisers, who are promising the city’s best-ever Guinness international festival.

THE international kings and queens of chess arrived in Cork yesterday ahead of the largest chess competition ever held in Ireland.

FOR what seemed like the first time all weekend only the Guinness was pouring as die-hard revellers got ready for a fourth night of jiving at the Cork Jazz Festival.

Digiweb, Ireland's fastest expanding broadband services provider, achieved another milestone today with the simultaneous launch of live licensed broadband services in Cork City and County, and the official opening of its new office in Cork City.

AUDIENCES come as varied as performers and the Cork Jazz Festival is no exception. While some of the crowds were getting mellow on melodies, others were being challenged, if not downright confused, by sounds not so easy to hum along with.

Cork's Guinness Jazz Festival is expected to pump over €20m into the Cork economy over the four days of the October bank holiday weekend (Oct 24- 27).

Guinness is set to deliver the biggest ever jazz event in Ireland this October Bank Holiday Weekend (Oct 25 - 28), with a stunning music line-up, specially programmed to celebrate Cork’s 25th year of the festival.

CORK’s emporia of swig and swing are about to go into warp speed as the Guinness Jazz Festival prepares to celebrate its 25th birthday by boldly going where it has gone before The event, running on October 25-28, has been hailed as the biggest jazz party in the world, with thousands descending on the southern city every year.