A member of An Garda Síochána was assaulted twice in different locations when he pursued a man in relation to a drugs search near a hotel’s underground car park.

Ireland's largest free family-friendly maritime event took place in Cork over the weekend, with music, attractions, boat tours and a food market just some of the highlights of SeaFest 2019.

The 65th Cork International Choral Festival, which is set to take place this week, will provide the region with a €10 million cash boost.

The time is ripe for Cork to be one of the leading sustainable cities in Europe, according to a world-renowned architectural expert.

The Irish Examiner is this morning hosting an event which is debating and exploring the city’s transformation and future both from a national and international perspective.

Around 5,000 singers will take part in Cork’s longest running festival, which is expected to generate €10m for the local economy.

A promotional trip billed as Ireland’s first carbon-neutral bus journey took place in Cork yesterday as a bio-methane powered vehicle took passengers from the city centre to Ringaskiddy.

One of the best remaining, compact prime redevelopment sites in Cork city has been sold for over €7 million, for 0.63 of an acre, or for the equivalent of €11 million per acre, to Dublin-based purchasers.

GSOC has taken a long-term lease on some 5,000 sq ft of offices at the Atrium, Blackpool, in a suite vacated by a relocated business advisers and services firm, Roberts Nathan.

“This was a once-off..It was freezing cold. I lay down on the couch.”

IF there are still some bare building bones sticking out at Cork City’s newest hotel (which promises to have pre-Christmas guests in situ by December 18) it’s appropriate — a portion of the site, on Parnell Place, was once a School of Anatomy for UCC.

A man with serious addiction problems was jailed for six months yesterday for stealing drink from behind the counters of bars and at shops around Cork.

Up to 1,500 people will be working on site across the bank holiday weekend, with some 40,000 fans expected on each of the three concert nights.

A man who believed people were trying to kill him became incensed when water dripped on his head from an apartment owner who was watering plants on his balcony.

Cork City Council has advised that it has upgraded its Severe Weather Alert to level 3 status and it has activated its Crisis Management Team.

The country is facing total shutdown from 4pm today with people ordered to stay indoors, schools and colleges closed, rail and bus services halted, and motorists warned it would be “suicidal” to take to the roads.

Water dripped on a man’s head when an apartment owner was watering plants on his balcony — the man below got so incensed that he threw bricks up at the apartment, causing €3,760 in damage.

Cork city does not need European funding to bankroll development, with some €365m worth of private sector projects underway in the city, writes Eoin English.  

A number of new office occupiers and sale deals are coming to an end-of-year close in the heart of Cork city, at Lapps Quay, at City Quarter, and at the Elysian, where a new walk-in medical clinic is set to open next month and where a new restaurant letting is agreed. Plus there’s 12,000 sq ft of offices at the Elysian under active negotiation via Lisney.

A set of chairs that Michael Collins gave to one of his sisters as a wedding gift is up for grabs in a Cork auction tomorrow.

A number of firms plan to take advantage of the rising demand for hotel beds in Cork, writes CBRE’s Denis O’Donoghue.

The president of Amy Winehouse’s record label still feels “pangs of guilt” about the singer’s death and is more sensitive to his artists’ wellbeing ever since.

The Closing Gala is the highlight of the final day of the Cork International Choral Festival but there is music all day for those looking to soak up a final piece of festival atmosphere. Check out some of Sunday's highlights here. 

University College Cork has said it is satisfied it paid market value when it bought a former bank from a local authority for €800,000 more than its purchase price two years earlier.

University College Cork has been given planning permission to turn an old city centre bank into a premises for its business school.

One third of Irish hotels have changed owners since 2011, including four out of five in Cork City, generating almost €2.5bn in sales, according to a study by property consultants Savills Ireland.

The location of two, 19th century stone warehouse buildings (plus an investment property currently let out as an adult shop,) on a central 0.42 of a Cork city centre acre put up for imaginative redevelopment is what underpins an asking price close to €2m, for the property and site’s owners and vendors, Cork City Council.

ONE of the country’s largest financial advisory firms, Deloitte, has committed to a new, long-term lease on its upgraded Cork city centre offices.

Planning permission has been sought for a €25m-plus, 165-bed hotel off Cork City’s South Mall, which, if granted, will make it the city’s third largest hotel.

A man who threatened gardaí in Cork City gave his name as 147 and said he was a member of An Garda Síochána.

John Hayes didn’t experience much of the build-up to the 2014 county final... and quite the build-up there was, too, given Carbery Rangers hadn’t been involved in the showpiece event of Cork football for 108 years.

Planning permission is to be sought by the end of the year to facilitate UCC’s hopes to change a historic city-centre bank to a flagship business school.

University College Cork is set to transform a landmark former bank into a flagship business school hub after the city last night agreed to sell the building to the college.

There have been calls for a review of pedestrian crossing times in Cork City following complaints that people aren’t being given enough time to cross some of its busiest roads.

Ireland’s largest hotel operator, Dalata, will have spent up to €90m on Cork city hotels by next year, spanning purchases, upgrades and completion of its Beasley St hotel site off Cork’s South Mall and Parnell Place (pictured) where a €10.2m purchase from Nama has finally just completed.