More than 240 families renting council houses in North Cork will be feeling a lot cosier this winter following the announcement that insulation and draft-proofing works are to start on their homes.

Even though Donegal’s Declan Boyle secured enough points to land the Clonakilty Black Pudding Irish Tarmac Championship, he will contest the Acesigns Cork 20 International Rally, the final round of the series.

IT may once have given Glastonbury a run for its money, but Nadd village — the location of the former Naddstock Festival — has reverted to being a sleepy hamlet in the mists of the Boggeragh Mountains.

Kilmacrane’s timber-frame, timber-clad design has a cosy Scandinavian feel on 15 private acres, says Tommy Barker

ONE of Fine Gael’s youngest politicians is unlikely to contest the next local elections in Co Cork.

THE celebrated US painter Georgia O’Keeffe will be honoured in her ancestral Co Cork tomorrow evening.

Sean O’Riordan on the continuing decline in West Cork’s population.

JOHN CREEDON topped Pool B of the Murphy’s Stout Munster Senior championship when he finished with two great bowls to beat Kieran Gould and John O’Driscoll at Castletownkenneigh on Saturday.