Rebel with a cause: Michael Moynihan looks at the life of John Horgan, Cork hurling captain, and Blackrock club legend

Bandon is abloom — from today the town’s main street will be festooned with hanging baskets and window boxes full of summer blossoms.

Twenty years after it hit national headlines, set political and business shock waves and repercussions that saw Ministerial resignations, tribunals and indirectly the demise of a serving Taoiseach, Cork City’s Horgan’s Quay site is back up for grab, openly this time, by tender.

BATE Borisov 2 Dundalk 1: Dundalk gave themselves every chance of advancing to the third qualifying round of the Champions League after leaving the Borisov Arena last night with a priceless away goal despite going down to BATE Borisov.

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A statue of the Virgin Mary that had disappeared from a grotto near University College Cork was found dumped in a nearby car park.

Iarnród Éireann is about to lodge a planning application to carry out a multi-million euro transformation of Kent Station in Cork, part of which will provide access from Horgan’s Quay.

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I have been monitoring the proposals for a conference centre in Cork City. This is a great opportunity, if we look at the greater scheme of things.

From the outside everything looked to be going well for Cork when the half-time whistle went and they were level with Galway.

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THE redevelopment of Iarnród Éireann Horgan’s Quay site in Cork city is one of the most crucial elements of the city’s draft development plan published yesterday.

CORK corner-forward Patrick Horgan showed some real class as Glen Rovers defeated Blackrock 3-11 to 0-15 in a top-class Evening Echo Cork SHC quarter-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

The man who raped and killed Ballincollig beautician Rachel Kiely was jailed for another eight years today – for carrying out a robbery while out on bail.

A YOUNG man who was rebuilding his life after release from prison died in mysterious circumstances on a boat moored at a city quay, an inquest was told yesterday.

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THE tracks were cleared yesterday for a €500 million development on the CIÉ-owned Horgan’s Quay site in Cork and for a €25m revamp of the city’s Kent railway station.

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