The festival is one of the most iconic events of its kind on the national cultural calendar.

One of the largest housing developments proposed for the Cork city area has An Bord Pleanála approval.

The Labour Court has recommended enhancements to the severance packages of those affected by the closure of An Post’s Mail Centre in Little Island, Cork.

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

Growing, stabilising, or stagnating?

He may have been too small to see the parade as a child but Olympic medal winner Rob Heffernan was walking tall as he led the St Patrick’s Day parade through his native city.

Paddys of all ages donned the patron saint’s costume and marched through Cork city today to celebrate the restoration of the city’s landmark St Patrick’s Bridge.

Cork’s newest bridge looks set to be named after a woman thanks to the public after four leading female historical figures were included on a five-name shortlist.

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

The signature dishes of some of Cork’s top restaurants will be on the menu for a culinary tour of the city shortly.

One of Cork City’s busiest hotel and restaurant districts is bracing for disruption and water outages during a €20m Irish Water pipe replacement project.

Two women enjoying the Cork Jazz Festival on MacCurtain St had the upset of having their handbags containing mobile phones and cash stolen from them.

Cork’s long-running jazz festival provided a mix of old and new sounds, writes Alan O’Riordan

A party atmosphere kicked off the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival when large crowds thronged a free open-air concert, signalling the start of celebrations for the festival’s 40th birthday.

Up to 40,000 people are expected to jive their way through the 40th Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this bank holiday weekend, with free open-air gigs, a jazz parade, and an open top jazz bus among the highlights.

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

As the Cork Jazz Festival turns 40, Richard Fitzpatrick asked a few familiar faces to share their fondest memories of the famous festival. 

The first new bridge over the river Lee in more than a decade has been installed.

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

Henry Ford paid an emotional visit to Cork in 1912 and here, Denis McSweeney imagines the scenario that unfolded.

A man serving two prison sentences for robbing prostitutes has had an eight-year term cut to six on appeal.

It may have taken years to reconstruct after the Easter Rising, but a Lego enthusiast took 24 months and used 50,000 pieces to recreate Dublin’s main 1916 battleground.

Ireland’s Alcatraz-style visitor attraction unveils its €5m revamp this weekend as the country gets set to bask in bank holiday sunshine.

The creator of the psychedelic pop sound is more than happy to be playing a concert in his adopted home of Cork, he tells Ed Power

A national coalition will this evening urge voters in the upcoming general election to make mental health a priority.

Questions about housing density, traffic management, and potential environmental impact dominated the second day of an oral hearing on a new town plan for more than 5,000 houses, north of Cork City.

150 political scientists will gather in Cork this weekend for the annual Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) conference.

If there’s blood on the streets of Cork city with its recent wave of new restaurants and bars opening for business, there’s a quarter-cut of the city that may well have a roll to play. It’s McCurtain Street.

George Harding left school at an early age but never lost his love of poetry. Following his retirement from a successful bicycle business, he went to university and got back on the literary saddle, he tells Colette Sheridan.

A prostitute working alone in the Metropole Hotel, Cork, was tied up with cables from her phone and computer chargers and put into a bath with a towel over her head as two men robbed her of €4,000 cash and other items.

In 1948, newspapers dubbed Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin the ‘loneliest boy in the world’: he was the sole child on the Blaskets, and now is the only surviving evacuee of 1953-54, says Áilín Quinlan.

CLASSICAL REVIEW: Messiah - Triskel Christchurch, Cork

The threat of driving winds and torrential rain showers could have given people the blues and kept them away, but the Cork Guinness Jazz festival events were as packed as ever as revellers happily went ‘Singin’ in the Rain’.

Gardaí in Cork City are trying to establish what happened to a man in his 30s that resulted in him ending up in hospital, fighting for his life.

A man in his 80s has died after he drove the wrong way down a motorway before colliding head on with another car on the outskirts of Cork.

The Irish Chess Union is to meet tonight to discuss a report on a violent end to a weekend tournament which saw a competitor accused of cheating after he was discovered in a toilet with a computer.

The anti-property tax campaigners who disrupted a local authority meeting in Cork have challenged TDs to face the public at an open meeting.

Music fans are this morning gearing themselves for one last toot on the trumpet as the Guinness Cork Jazz festival enters its final day.

A handwritten letter penned in Irish by former Cork lord mayor Terence MacSwiney could fetch up to €1,500 at an antique book fair this weekend.