It’s a pub with a counter almost as long as its history, a meeting place that has become as synonymous with the festive season as carol singing, traffic congestion, and mince pies.

Jimmy Crowley has started a new folk club in his native city, writes Pet O’Connell

Kerrie O’Brien, reading at the Winter Warmers event in Cork this weekend, has also put together a book in aid of the homeless, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan

MULTIPLE murders in Montenotte; hostages in Blackpool; gangland kingpins strolling around Cobh and now deadly dognappers and drug smugglers battling for supremacy in Cork — gardaí in Graham Masterton’s world definitely don’t have it easy.

Four days, 1,200 musicians, and 40,000 punters later, the 34th Guinness Cork Jazz festival will tonight come to a close following a weekend of beats, blues, and boater hats.

From Rory Gallagher to Frank O’Connor, there’s an eclectic mix in a new anthology of Cork writings, says Colette Sheridan

The tragedy of the sinking of the Lusitania has always overshadowed the grandeur of the ship, but items from the liner which go on auction tomorrow show that five-star treatment was enjoyed by even second-class passengers.

Suzanne Harrington returns home with a boyfriend who has never visited Cork and finds there have been many changes over the years to a city which has embraced the new but hung on to the best parts of the old.

Bar owner Rita Moynihan died last week at the age of 83, leaving a rich legacy, according to Dan Buckley

IN 1970, fresh out of St Colman’s boarding school, I attended UCC.

ROSS LEWIS is standing under the archway at the Princes St entrance to Cork’s renowned English Market, in chef’s whites, arms folded, mugging for the camera.

INTERNET users researching a trip to Cork can now take a virtual tour inside the city’s bars, restaurants, hotels and other businesses — a move which traders hope will boost tourism.

Tourists coming to Cork can now take a 360-degree virtual tour on Google of the interiors of local pubs, restaurants, and hotels before going on to visit the venues in reality.

To mark the Irish Examiner Food Festival, Bridgestone Guide Contributing Editor and our own food columnist Joe McNamee unveils his inaugural food awards. Read on for the best in fine dining, bar grub, afternoon tea and much more in Cork and Dublin

THE Minister for Foreign Affairs has agreed to face what could be his toughest ever Questions and Answers session.

A SHIP’S salvage, from the 1928 stricken White Star liner, The Celtic, is an unusual find in an equally unusual Cork house and property sale.

THE Christmas shopping frenzy is barely over but Cork shoppers are turning their efforts to bargain hunting in the winter sales.

Heavily armed Land Rovers used by the Royal Marines in their war on terror in Afghanistan are to be the stars of Europe’s biggest military vehicle show today.

A man who died following a beating in a derelict house in Cork in 1997 was