Up to €2bn may now be provided over the next four years to the new homes and property development sectors by alternative lender Castlehaven Finance, says the firm’s regional manager John ‘Paco’ Fitzgerald.

A Cobh man who tried to strike gardaí with a glass bottle and later tried to head-butt them was yesterday jailed for four months.

Business law firm, ReganWall is expanding with the appointments of Adam Griffiths as partner and Sarah Connolly as solicitor in its offices at City Quarter, Lapp’s Quay, Cork.

Gardaí are appealing to those attending today's Rod Stewart concert in Páirc Uí Chaoimh to use public transport to access the stadium.

Hundreds of people rallied in Cork tonight demanding radical action to address the housing crisis as new figures showed that 400 new homes could be developed in vacant upper floors in the heart of the city.

For people strolling Lapp’s Quay and Albert Quay in Cork the long boats knifing through the water, crews paddling furiously, are a familiar sight.

Breast cancer survivors are preparing to launch a fundraising calendar, similar to the famous ‘Calendar Girls,’ and one of the participants is a man.

EY is creating 520 jobs across its seven Irish offices.

Cork is set to host thousands of visitors this weekend with a large number of events taking place across the city and county.

Professional women were told to “know their worth and ask for equal pay” at the second annual Cork University Business School (CUBS) conference, writes Pádraig Hoare.

The recent bad weather has been “factored in” to Páirc Uí Chaoimh’s preparations for the national league double-header at the Cork stadium on Saturday.

University College Cork acquired a private business college without picking up the tab for its pension scheme, which previously had a deficit of more than €10m.

University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea used the inaugural Cork University Business School conference to announce plans to build a business school in Cork City centre that will be one of the biggest in the country.

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.

Detailed plans of conservation work to retain historic features of a former city centre bank are included in an application to convert it to a business school for University College Cork.

Cork Simon relies heavily on fundraising by ordinary people embracing the extraordinary time that is Christmas, writes John Tynan

A woman in Cork city was mugged while Christmas shopping yesterday evening in an incident described by gardaí as "horrible, random and vicious".

Torrential rain and gale-force winds caused havoc across the country as three weather warnings took their toll.

Motorists have been warned to expect delays and consider diversions as one of Cork City’s busiest bridges closes for two months of maintenance from Monday.

Choirs from across the world made the best of the poor weather over the bank holiday weekend to deliver another successful Cork International Choral Festival.

The number of parking fines issued in Cork City declined by 22% last year with almost 7,700 fewer tickets handed out to offending motorists.

Post Publications Limited, publishers of the Sunday Business Post, are seeking to appeal a decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal that former treasurer Kieran Moloney was an employee of theirs.

Leading hoteliers John and Darina Gately have blamed the recession, office closures, and the decision on the location of Cork’s proposed events centre for the closure of their Boardwalk Bar and Grill venue.

The public will have a last chance today to go aboard the LÉ Aoife in Cork, before the naval vessel is taken out of service early next year.

The sun blazed down on 550 rowers and paddlers who were cheered through Cork harbour and into Cork city as they took on the gruelling task of completing the 10th Rás Mór, Ireland’s number one rowing race.

Win or lose, both Cork and Clare are planning big homecoming bashes after the two counties do battle again today in the replay of the All-Ireland hurling final.

With endless exotic rides and a few token exotic birds, anyone dining on Cork’s busiest boardwalk last night could be forgiven for thinking they were witnessing a revival of Men and their Motors.

Members of the public have been invited to have their say tomorrow on plans for a bike-sharing scheme in Cork.

The first female sheriff in Ireland tells Dan Buckley she opposes positive discrimination

This week with the promise of sunshine on the way, Esther N McCarthy goes hunting for shedloads of stuff including summer brights, greeting cards and a brolly — just in case.

More than 550 jobs are at stake in a bitter legal dispute over alleged trespass at the Cork offices from which the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers are now operating following restructuring of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings media group.

Cork solicitor Sinead McNamara has become the first female county sheriff in Ireland.

You could call it a recipe for success.

Esther N McCarthy dips, wheels and whirls to pick cute, clever and crafty gifts for everyone this festive season.

Hold the front page — a pop-up Christmas shop has opened in the headquarters of the Irish Examiner.

A Rose with a passion for rowing has backed plans to set up a special rowing team in Cork for people diagnosed with or recovering from breast cancer.

The landmark Permanent TSB branch at Lapp’s Quay will be one of four of the bank’s Cork branches to close by the end of the year.

Gardaí have warned motorists and pedestrians in Cork that several areas of the city will be closed off ahead of the Queen's visit tomorrow.

THE first pancake is for the dog — or so the saying goes.

BROADCASTER Neil Prendeville, who performed a lewd act while travelling on an Aer Lingus flight from London to Cork, will remain off air until Garda investigations into the incident are complete, his employers have said.

A high tide flood alert is in place in Cork.

KYRLS Quay in Cork suffered its worst flooding in almost a year last night as it emerged that EU scientists knew Ireland would suffer extensive river flooding five days before last November’s devastation but declined to disclose this information.

ALMOST 500 rowers participated in an annual rowing race from Crosshaven to Cork city over the weekend which kick started the maritime festival atmosphere for the summer.

GENERAL manager of Cork’s Clarion Hotel, Charlie Sheil, is taking the top post as GM of the new Gibson Hotel at the Point Village in Dublin this month, ahead of its scheduled June opening.