Work has begun on the demolition of a landmark suburban cinema in Cork which is being converted into a retail centre.

The owners of the Natural Foods Bakery, well-known purveyors of wholesome foods, are to sell one of their three premises as they focus more on producing artisan breads.

The brand has seven outlets located in Cork's Mahon Point and Wilton shopping centres, in Tralee, Waterford, Limerick, Galway and Athlone.

Plans for 1,100 apartments on a key site in Cork’s south docks are in the pipeline, it has emerged.

Pay to directors at one of the largest architectural practices in the country soared to €2.47m last year.

Pantos, big wheels, festivals — Ciara McDonnell rounds up the best events this December to keep you busy in the build up to Christmas

A man reacted to his girlfriend breaking up their relationship over a meeting at a café by throwing hot coffee into her face.

Operating profits at one of the largest car dealerships in the country, Johnson & Perrott, increased 11.5% to over €4.6m last year.

Cork’s love affair with dining out, music, and coffee is driving a retail expansion throughout the city and suburbs.

Tommy Barker visits a property that has the best of both worlds, set in a rustic idyll yet just a short hop in the car to the bright lights of the city

Steroids caused a bodybuilder’s thinking to become so reckless he ended up supplying steroids and cocaine, it was claimed, but after evidence of turning his life around he was today given a four-year suspended jail term.

Change our habits and our children will follow suit

Cork's first cycling maps have been unveiled ahead of national bike week.

Nauzika and Peter Habermayer are a running couple with a difference.

The National Transport Authority says it hopes to achieve some quick-wins on the bus and rail network once its ambitious €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area is adopted.

A €1bn 25-stop light-rail system linking Ballincollig to Mahon via a new docklands bridge is among the proposals contained in the long-awaited Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy (CMATS).

Work on a €1bn light rail system for Cork will not start until 2031 at the earliest with the focus in the interim on improved roads and increased bus lanes.

A €1bn light rail system between Ballincollig and Mahon Point via the city centre, as well as eight new railway stations and 100km of bus lanes, are contained in a radical new transport plan for Cork.

Family-owned furniture retailer EZ Living Interiors has hired 45staff in its outlets in the past year.

I love this time of year and this week I’m sharing some of my favourite ways to spend my downtime in December. For my recipe, it’s my gingerbread cookies and spiced almonds, both great edible gift options, writes Derval O'Rourke.

Greenfield sites hardly come any better, or beguiling, than this. Seven acres of ‘farm’ land, recently shorn of its annual crop of maize, between the two main Douglas Roads in suburban Cork, within a walk of the city centre have just come up for sale as a truly prime development opportunity.

THE first phase of a significant €15million motor trade investment on Cork city’s Bandon Road opens next week, indicative of the recovery in the Irish economy, the motor trade and a forerunner of other developments to follow on Cork’s western fringes.

PLANS for a €100m residential development in Cork’s Mahon, with 413 units across six blocks including one mooted tower of 25 storeys tall by the Jack Lynch Tunnel approach is being proposed for lands owned by McCarthy Properties.

Plans for what could be the tallest building in Ireland, near Cork’s Mahon Point, have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála.

Two charges of endangering the lives of gardaí were brought yesterday against a 31-year-old man yesterday.

Esther N McCarthy is eyeing up some delightful design details in advance of an al fresco summer.

A bodybuilder’s thinking became reckless as a result of using steroids and he ended up supplying steroids and cocaine, his barrister said yesterday.

“She’s never going to know her sister, that’s what gets me the most. And the fact now that there’s no answers, it makes it 100 times worse.”

Gardaí are now satisfied that a knife was not produced during an assault on a late-night cinema goer in Mahon Point shopping centre in Cork on Friday night.

Update 1pm: Gardaí say they are now satisfied that a knife was not produced following an alleged assault on a late-night cinema goer in Cork's Mahon Point shopping centre on Friday night.

Thousands of comic book fans are expected to flock to Mahon Point shopping centre next week for the Cork Comic Expo.

A young man found hiding in the attic of his home when gardaí went looking for him was yesterday jailed for three years.

From a doggie delight to a great interiors event, there’s a spring in Esther N McCarthy’s step...

OVER €100m has been invested off-market, across three low-key retail deals, in the heart of Cork City, at Opera Lane, Merchants Quay/Marks & Spencers Shopping Centre, and St Patrick’s St.

A young man admitted assaulting his ex-girlfriend by head-butting her as she sat on a bench at a shopping centre and now he has been warned that he faces jail if he does not start a rehabilitation programme during Christmas.

OFF the pitch, footballer Mark McNulty is not what you’d expect. There’s hardly a sentence when the Cork City goalkeeper doesn’t mention his children.