Cork County Council has criticised a planning application for a €500,000 upgrade to ‘Heartbreak Pier,’ the derelict structure from which a million emigrants, including 123 who boarded the Titanic, departed Cobh for new lives in the UK, America, and Australia.

City living convenience? It hardly gets any better than Cork’s Marina Park, at the city end (or, the very start) of the Blackrock Road at its Victoria Road nexus.

SINCE No 23 Geraldine Place last sold, back in 2010, the world around this niche Cork city setting has seemingly come back to rights.

Two neighbouring Limerick schools yesterday joined forces to create a magical production combining sound and silence for a Christmas show.

CORK City is on flood alert as the country braces for another massive storm.

Gardaí are investigating a report of a shooting at a house in Limerick overnight.

Gardaí in Limerick have expressed fears that "a bloody feud" will erupt between rival factions following a shooting last Tuesday, in which a man and a juvenile were injured.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was shot in the stomach in Limerick.

A Limerick criminal who claims he is addicted to fast cars, sped through heavy city centre traffic in a stolen BMW pursued by armed gardaí, crashing into two patrol cars and a bus before knocking down a garda, a court heard.

A Limerick criminal who knocked down a garda and rammed a bus and two garda patrol cars, whilst driving a high-powered stolen BMW, told gardaí after his arrest: "I'm addicted to fast cars".

The Special Criminal Court trial of a man accused of assaulting and falsely imprisoning another man has been listening to evidence of garda interviews conducted with the suspect.

Kilkenny 0-15 Wexford 0-14: A pointed injury-time free from Alan Murphy secured victory for Kilkenny in a hugely competitive Walsh Cup senior hurling semi-final at O’Kennedy Park yesterday.

FANCY living in the city, in a period home, with amenities all on the doorstep, for under €400k? 

The floral tributes spelled out the words “friend” and “mam”.

The young woman who died when the car she was in was hit by a truck on the M8 motorway yesterday had just taken a call giving her good news about her newborn baby.

The moment that 11 Pike Rovers players emerge onto the Aviva Stadium turf this afternoon will mark a first in the careers of each and every one of them.

Wexford 0-14 Offaly 0-6: Wexford manager Liam Dunne admitted conditions were difficult but he was happy with his side’s eventual eight-point victory over Offaly in their Walsh Cup semi-final played in O’Kennedy Park, New Ross, yesterday.

A man has been jailed for eleven years with the final three years suspended after "savagely" beating a "quiet and gentle" man, leaving him in a permanently disabled state and later attempting to burgle the home of an elderly bachelor.

Much of the best of the old was kept when the new broom came in for an energy efficiency upgrade at Cork’s 42 Marina Park a few years ago. 

Tommy Barker reports on a recent arrival in an old Cork city suburb.

St Peter’s College (Wexford) 2-18 Borris Vocational College 0-15: SHEER persistence paid off for St. Peter’s as they secured a flattering nine-point win over a resilient Borris VC in this Leinster SHC ‘A’ semi-final at O’Kennedy Park, New Ross, Saturday.

A man has been hailed a hero after saving his unconscious girlfriend from her burning home after a Christmas candle fell on a blanket while she slept.

An army bomb disposal unit has made safe and removed a pipe bomb from a home in Limerick after it was thrown into the house this morning.

The ground floor at No 51 Marina Park, says Tommy Barker, can be as open as you like with lots of options to compartmentalise if you wish.

Blackrock Road, Cork city €525,000

I like to call it the chocolate cake versus apple tart debate, because that’s how I roll. I keep the metaphors on the basic side, me.

Gary O’Hanlon will be the star attraction of the 7,000 runners set to descend upon St Patrick’s Street at the Cork City Marathon at 9am on Bank Holiday Monday when he bids to win his third marathon in the space of 15 days.

Major traffic restrictions will be in operation on Bank Holiday Monday as more than 9,000 competitors take to the streets in the annual Cork City Marathon.

Limerick gardaí say they are close to identifying the people who were in a car from which a known criminal fell to his death when travelling on the N69.

A convicted killer died after he fell out of a moving car and was hit by another vehicle in Co Limerick.

Two young men lost their lives in separate accidents over the Easter weekend.

In an emotional scene on the steps of a court house yesterday, the daughter of a patient who died when he was hit by a car after he left a hospital to go to a nearby take-away, embraced the driver involved in the accident.

SET on a hidden site, just before the start of Cork’s Blackrock Road, is Applewood — a dormer with a difference.

Location: Victoria Avenue

One of the country’s most under-threat women sat in a Limerick court and heard that her partner, a notorious rapist, was now a changed man since meeting her and having a child with her.

The weather was about as mixed as the standards as thousands of women and wannabe women pounded out the route of the Evening Echo Cork Mini-Marathon.

Small is beautiful for this pied a terre terraced townhouse, Tommy Barker reports

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