A decade or so after some masterful conservation, the three terraced houses in Cork’s Bellevue Villas (where No 2’s a market relaunch) are among the city’s best examples of manageable, period home grandeur.

GARDAÍ made special arrangements yesterday to ensure a beautiful bride got to the church on time.

IN spite of overnight lows of -12C and daytime temperatures of just -5C expected in some parts today, the country now looks likely not to have a white Christmas Day.

A memorial commemorating the 52 victims of the July 7, 2005 terrorist bombings in London was to be unveiled today on the fourth anniversary of the attacks.

The former leader of the INLA in Dublin, Declan `Whacker’ Duffy, has been jailed for four years for membership of the organisation.

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of three men accused of INLA membership has heard that the INLA planned to kidnap a Cork businessman last year.

A Tyrone man was arrested in Cork last year by a detective who suspected him of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of INLA membership fled from a premises in Cork city when the owner, a local businessman, returned home with gardaí, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of four men accused of INLA membership has heard that three knives, duct-tape and cable ties were found in the coal-shed of a house that two of the accused men had entered.

CORK’S city manager has been asked to intervene in a standoff which has forced the closure of a famous lane for more than a month.

Tommy Barker views a 1930s house that was built in a former orchard.

THEY built warehouses to a high standard in the old days. Irish Distillers used red sandstone in their whiskey store at the end of Lover’s Walk in Montenotte, Cork and it’s now a new apartment development.