A planning application for the site's redevelopment is to be lodged this week.

An investigation is underway following the demolition of a building on Cork’s MacCurtain Street to pave the way for a €7m ‘city-sleeper’ hotel.

The largest single footprint in the conserved, converted and upgraded yard space with enclosed garden at Cork city’s Thompson House, measuing about 12,500 sq ft, is now available to let, on a new ten year lease, according to Lynch family owners’ co-developer John Lynch.

The Thompson Bakery building on Cork city’s MacCurtain Street is not just a slice of local history — it’s almost the full sliced pan, spanning three centuries of heritage, and now visibly risen to renewed glories.

Meitheal Architects has promoted six key staff to associate level within its practice in Cork.

The city is growing and changing, but unless the Government can ability to deliver their objectives, more urban sprawl awaits, writes Peter O’Flynn

Kya deLongchamps is impressed by what she sees when she visits a period house near St Luke’s in Cork

Two of the brides stayed in contact after their wedding day after meeting on the 3pm train that day to Dublin 46 years ago.

Eve Kelliher gets set to hit the Open House trail.

Foodies rejoice - the Cork Gourmet Trail is back for another year and is set to be bigger and better than ever.

THERE’S a set-back charm, on the double, to sunnily set 66, Wellington Road, in Cork city’s genteel (or, at least, regentrifying) St Luke’s Cross, between the city centre and Montenotte.

The pull of Cork’s northside is strong - and that’s official.

The Everyman Palace Theatre has seen a lot in its 120 years. As it opens its doors to public tours, Marjorie Brennan gets a sneak peek into the workings of this iconic Cork institution.

A Garda trying to get into a pub to carry out a late-night inspection heard loud 'shushing' from inside the pub as he was left standing outside the locked premises.

The volume of water wasted in Cork city has increased over the last four years despite a massive infrastructural project to plug leaks and improve pipes throughout the city centre.

Two-time winners Son of a Bun on Cork’s MacCurtain Street just missed out on a hat trick.

One of the longest-running pubs in Cork is due to expand, bringing new life to a former bakery in the city centre.

There’s no shortage of music options at the newly-expanded festival.

Des O’Driscoll looks back on the strange set of circumstances that led to the founding of the festival in 1978.

The scramble to find a home in the crisis-hit rental sector has led to people queuing to view a €900-a-month one-bedroom apartment on Cork's Tuckey Street.

We hope they paid their bill.

More additions to student accommodation provision in Cork are to be made after permission has been granted for a development with over 200 bed spaces near the city centre.

The First Lady of Song played two memorable concerts at the jazz festival in 1980, writes Des O’Driscoll

A strange set of circumstances led Jim Mountjoy to suggest a jazz festival for Cork in 1978. Little did he know how his idea would snowball, writes Des O’Driscoll

Plans for the overhaul and extension of the Metropole Hotel in Cork city centre have been detailed by the company proposing the works.

Plans for a pedestrian and cycle bridge in Cork City, which is being part-funded by the EU, have gone on public display.

Derry Cotter was a lecturer in UCC for 35 years. His first stage play, The Inheritance, opens tonight in the Cork Arts Theatre, and will also be performed by the UCC Players in Ardmore, Co Waterford on Friday, May 26 . Cotter was born in a pub in the North Main Street, Cork, which his parents used to run for Murphy’s Brewery. He is married to Carmel, and they have four children.

Michael Twomey may be best known for Cha and Miah, but his reflections on over 70 years in Cork theatre include some incredible history, writes Jo Kerrigan