One of the most iconic theatre venues in the south of the country may not re-open until December 2019.

Des O’Driscoll picks the best events for the week ahead

A suspended sentence was imposed yesterday on a Macroom man who was caught masturbating in bushes near a park playground in Cork City.

The agriculture minister, who has an office on one of the country’s worst bottlenecks, has met with road building chiefs amid fears work on the long-awaited €160m N22 bypass could be delayed by up to five years.

Today, May 26

About 20% of the country’s political representatives are landlords, according to the most recent registry of members interests.

Three members of a fire brigade in Cork suffered injuries to their hands and face after a barrel of liquid exploded at a fire they were fighting yesterday morning.

The jury in a serious assault trial has been told a woman suffered a stroke, brain injury, and various broken bones after being assaulted by her husband in the family home.

A depressed milkman, who lost his lucrative milk round, resorted to cultivating cannabis in what was described in court yesterday as a small, but sophisticated, growhouse operation.

Munster and Ireland legend Paul O’Connell is Danny Lynch’s favourite player, writes Sam Boland.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England, is home to one of Europe’s largest concentrations of researchers in the fields of environment, health and plant science.

Macroom Haulage Ltd has developed and expanded over almost 30 years by guaranteeing best in class service levels an ability to continuously develop and grow its portfolio of services in line with market demands by its customers.

Many, many years ago I was involved in selecting an end-of-the-food-chain rugby team — Minor B Seconds — at a small, rural, end-of-the-world club. 

Most kids bat off minor bugs fairly effortlessly but not Fíonn Flannery O’Riordan.

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A hill farmer who ambushed and assaulted a neighbour on a remote road near the Cork-Kerry mountains was yesterday jailed for 12 months.

Sales growth in infant formula and bottled water products have helped lift French yoghurt firm Danone to a 4.5% gain in annual earnings, according to its newly released 2011 accounts.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl who has beaten cancer despite being given no chance of survival in Ireland has marked her final day of treatment by ringing a special bell at a Boston Hospital.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

VEGETARIAN food producer Deirdre Collins is launching her range of wholefood burgers on the British market.

JOB opportunities for graduates in the agri-food sector increased more than three-fold in the last quarter of 2010, according to analysis by the Agricultural Science Association (ASA).

YOUR report (February 15) highlighting the unsafe entry to St Colman’s Boys’ National School in Macroom, Co Cork, prompts me to write about my recent visit to the school.

Convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan will have to wait to the New Year to find out if his appeal against the conviction he received for the robbery of a post office has been successful.

A MIDDLE-AGED man drinking in his local pub in west Cork was beaten to his knees and then held by the hair as his two attackers kicked and kneed him into the face. One of the assailants has been given a suspended one-year sentence.

DAIRYGOLD Co-op has agreed to purchase the brands and goodwill of Macroom Mills for an undisclosed sum.

The man who raped and killed Ballincollig beautician Rachel Kiely was jailed for another eight years today – for carrying out a robbery while out on bail.

NOT only has Christian Wirtz collected two senior hurling medals since arriving from Germany less than a year ago, he became one of the country’s highest-scoring Leaving Certificate students this week.

An elderly man has died in a fire at a house near Macroom in Co Cork this morning.

LAST SUMMER I got a phone call from a man who lives locally to say that he had picked up the body of an animal that had been killed on the road and he was having an argument with some of his friends about its identification.

I SUFFER from a very rare condition: irony deficiency. For where my fellow citizens see merely a humorous irony I am often troubled

The US-owned Elan Pharmaceutical company is to cut its 900-strong Irish workforce by more than a third.

A WIDOW whose late husband's inquest was put back just hours before it was due to be heard has called for a system that cares more about grieving families.

A Dublin computer company is reported to be set to lay off 100 jobs in the latest blow to the high tech sector.

The Government tonight dampened hopes of more tax cuts after pointing to "a significant moderation in the pace of growth" in a revised forecast of this year’s economic progress.