Technology and tourism collided for me last weekend and — in the process — provided some insight to how one benefits the other.

Local communities, organisations, and accommodation providers all over Cork are being asked to buy into the new Pure Cork brand aimed at boosting the county’s tourism offering.

The young revolutionary who killed the only policeman to die violently between 1916 and the War of Independence later became an early member of An Garda Síochána, a police researcher has found.

A potential exports boost could be on the cards after it was revealed that plans have been made to officially twin Co Cork with Jiangsu province in China — with the event to be held at the Chinese-owned Fota Island Resort during the Irish Open.