Denis Lehane knows the first thing he'd do if he found himself swimming in money

A poem about the pub’s social importance to rural Ireland is being broadcast to Tube passengers in London this St Patrick’s Day.

Those from Cork might even know her.

The ordination of six men as permanent deacons in the parish of Cloyne, in Co Cork, is a great example of the potential for lay people to get involved in ministry.

Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a wind farm in east Cork for the second time in two years.

Tommy Barker on a country home that has engrossing tales to tell of changing political times and family ties.

Thinking of building a house? The advantages of building a timber frame house over the more standard concrete block method include a shorter construction period but the block method has caught up fast in terms of energy efficiency and airtightne.

Seen from the air, the 35-acre non-residential holding which is for sale in the townland of Curraclogh, Lissarda, Co Cork, looks like a rich patchwork quilt of differing shades of green.

Although no solar farms have yet been built in the Republic, a handful of projects have been granted planning permission.

“It was 22 degrees in the car when I arrived,” auctioneer Jim O’Brien mentioned to me before taking up his post in the main ring in Bandon mart on Monday.

A teenager and a man in his 30s have died in separate incidents in Cork.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

The Government is to make €10.2m in funding available for national road schemes, with nearly half of the fund going towards a section of the Cork-Limerick road.

Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for a 5,400 sq m solar farm near Macroom, Co Cork.

All set for a new future is the former pub/post office at Poulanargid, in the folds of woods and hills off the main Cork-Macroom road, near Lissarda and Kilmurray. 

Macroom Flower & Garden Club presents a spring gardening talk by Mary Cronin (BSc. Hort.) from Sweet Magnolia Garden Centre, Lissarda on Thursday March 12 at 8pm in Coolcower House. 

Being a late bloomer in his writing hasn’t prevented the rapid progress of UCC’s John Fitzgerald, writes Colette Sheridan.

Cork county councillors have been warned to steer clear of chamber discussions on some windfarm developments.

A public meeting is to be held in a rural West Cork community tomorrow night as locals discuss growing fears about the planned construction of a cluster of giant wind turbines near their homes.

A comedy on the Great Famine is outrageous and insulting. Imagine treating likewise the Holocaust, 911, or the Paris massacre?

Plans to build a windfarm in East Cork using turbines almost double the height of the Elysian Tower have been shot down by An Bord Pleanála on the grounds of a negative visual impact and adverse impact on ecology.

The Adrian Maguire-trained Seventh Sign served notice that he’s an extremely classy recruit to this season’s point-to-point ranks by narrowly coming out on top in a pulsating finale to the open lightweight at yesterday’s well-attended Boulta fixture that was run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds-

The electoral mathematics of the next general election could dictate a Fine Gael/Fianna Fail/Labour coalition, if each is not prepared to bed down with Sinn Fein. Anyone in doubt should look to history.

UCC’s head librarian John FitzGerald has won the prestigious Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.

Two people were killed in separate road crashes in Cork and Carlow yesterday.

“There’s huge value for money here,” says Sam Kingston of Casey and Kingston, appointed selling agent for the 10,000 sq ft, expensively-built Lissarda Manor guest house on the main Cork-Macroom/Killarney Road.

The bomb squad has dealt with a grenade dating from the early 20th century near Macroom in Co Cork.

What could be the world’s smallest pup was born in Lissarda near Macroom recently.

Four brothers who lost their mother to Alzheimer’s have helped their father organise a fundraising cycle in her memory to help other families caring for a loved one with dementia.

1. Literally Inspired

A Co Cork Volkswagen main dealer has failed to get an injunction preventing the termination of his dealership as part of a nationwide reorganisation of VW outlets.

East Cork will be home to the tallest on-shore wind turbines in the country, visible from parts of Cork City, if permission to build is granted, according to locals opposed to the project.

Wind turbines that dwarf the Elysian Tower and are higher than the Dublin Spire are planned for East Cork.

American inspired five-bed property close to Lissarda still has an Irish feel, writes Tommy Barker

Local hero Darragh O’Riordan (Subaru WRC) bids to record back-to-back wins in this weekend’s Orchard Motorsport Cork ‘20’ International Rally as Armagh’s Darren Gass (Subaru WRC) aims to seal his inaugural Irish Tarmac title with Fermanagh’s Garry Jennings, the only other driver that can win the title, a doubtful starter.

Denis Lehane learns from a beekeeper that the wet washes away nectar and prevents bees flying