A major fundraiser is being planned to make up a shortfall in money needed to operate a charity-run home in Cork, which currently caters for 128 residents and 100 day care patients.

On a night when British challenger Decorated Knight, ridden for Roger Charlton by George Baker, landed the Group 3 ICON Meld Stakes at Leopardstown, the O’Briens again stole the show as the progressive three-year-old Arya Tara justified favouritism in the listed Stanerra Stakes.

Cork’s city planners have sought ministerial approval for the major extension of a tax break scheme designed to promote regeneration and city living, and to include the city’s main shopping and office districts.

Bogus insurance claims and staged traffic accidents poison the atmosphere for valid claims as well as tying up gardaí and ambulance services to bolster the frauds, the sentencing judge said yesterday.

Suzanne Harrington returns home with a boyfriend who has never visited Cork and finds there have been many changes over the years to a city which has embraced the new but hung on to the best parts of the old.

When she moved to Cork from the USA 14 years ago, former journalist Jamie Monagan brought her favourite ‘blankie’ with her — now, thanks to a special programme for wannabe female entrepreneurs, she’s about to launch a business making designer throws.

Location: St Luke’s Cross, Cork City

EVERYONE of a certain age remembers — or claims to remember — the day US president John Fitzgerald Kennedy died.

One Canadian province estimates it will have 20,000 construction jobs which Irish people can fill over the next five years.

Troops will march into Collins Barracks in Cork tomorrow to mark the 90th anniversary of the handover by the British to the Irish Army of what was then Victoria Barracks.

THERE’S something about Montenotte — the quality of the buildings, or that feeling of the last vestige of Empire.

THERE was a reluctant acceptance among many public service workers picketing in Cork that their income is going to drop again after the budget – but they remain adamant in their desire to see the pain shared by those in the high-income brackets.

A NUMBER of Cork city’s major hotels and guesthouses had to close or turn customers away as a result of last week’s floods.

ONE of Cork’s biggest suburbs will not have a priest this summer because of fall-offs in vocations.

HOUSE buyers are now getting better value — and often better properties in better locations.

THERE’S a bit of a surge of relocation house hunters from Dublin on the prowl in Cork right now, and many in particular favour ease of access to the city centre, and a period home in the right setting.

ON June 27, members of St Finbarr’s GAA club ladies’ section were involved in a bus accident on Military Hill, Cork.

AEROBIC exercise is a given for those who live in elevated parts of the northside of Cork city.

DONE up during last year for ultimate re-sale, no 13 Military Road is none the worse for this: in fact, it has been re-done with a professional approach to appeal to a wide cross section of buyers looking for contemporary comforts in an older house. And, in a settled, older area too.

THOUSANDS of homes in Cork city’s northside were left without water following severe water disruption caused by broken pipes.

IT may be one of largest charitable bequests in Ireland’s history - a €20m bequest from an 84-year-old bachelor.

Rose Martin visits a Victorian beauty that’s recently been renovated.

IT’S hard to tell that the owners of this period house have two small children running around, it’s so perfect.

TUCKED away in a mature, residential area is this Victorian townhouse at 22 Alexandra Villas on Military Hill, which has just come on the market with a €295,000 price tag.

THERE’S a different march up on Military Hill these days and it’s accompanied by the whine of the angle grinder and the staccato thrum of the pneumatic drill.

PART of a development of apartments and townhouses across from Collin’s Barracks, on Military Hill, number 25, Bellevue Court, is a gem.

THE steady march of re-gentrification continues at St Luke’s Cross in Cork city, where large older houses are going back from years of flatland habitation to private residential usage.