Just hours before pledging support for his successor, the Bishop Emeritus of Cork and Ross was visiting the sick in Cork University Hospital, supporting, among others, a man from West Cork who had lost several fingers in a horrific lawnmower accident.

Evelyn Grant is a flute-player and presenter of Week End Drive on RTÉ Lyric fm. She is also musical director and conductor of the Cork Pops

A volunteer who is the powerhouse behind Cork’s Penny Dinners first developed the helping gene when she realised that when her father went “missing” on Christmas morning he was actually out feeding the city’s elderly.

Cork is set to host thousands of visitors this weekend with a large number of events taking place across the city and county.

A memorial will be unveiled today just off America’s iconic Route 66 in memory of a Cork woman who became one of the most celebrated trade unionists in US history.

Des O’Driscoll shares his top tips for upcoming events

When he first visited the Cork of his ancestors, Henry Ford was embroiled in a fascinating saga revolvong around an apparent bequest to charity. Dave Hannigan tries to seperate fact from fiction.

Time was that road bowling wasn’t so much a tradition in Cork as a birthright. It’s a sport surviving in changed times and changed lives, but only just. Isn’t there an onus on us all to preserve native tradition and heritage?

A Cork mother who sadly lost her son an hour after he was born has called for anomaly scans to be made available to all expectant parents.

Trish Dromey discovers a quaint, terraced, two-bed that’s sure to please.

Cork historian Dr Sean Pettit will guest at the 2016 Spirit of Mother Jones festival and summer school.

Videographer Ethan Copage admired the architecture around Cork city so much he decided to capture it on film.

This period-era, mid-terrace home is full of character and enjoys the elevated views from Cork City’s Richmond Hill, writes Tommy Barker.

Hundreds of people turned out on the streets of Cork for the city’s 90th Eucharistic procession in beautiful sunshine yesterday.

The former home of a Lord Mayor is tiny, but it’s centrally located.

A sign of how one of Cork’s oldest communities has been welcoming the city’s newest arrivals was displayed to Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan yesterday.

A British MP whose campaign had a huge bearing on freeing the Birmingham Six will be guest speaker at a festival in Cork to honour another human rights champion.

One of the most detailed digital images of Cork city’s iconic northern skyline is set to go on public display.

THREE years ago many Irish people had never heard of Mother Jones.

The North Monastery primary school in Cork has withdrawn controversial plans to start teaching infant boys, but its board hopes agreement can be reached with local schools on future enrolments in time for September 2015.

A meeting between the Catholic Bishop of Cork John Buckley and three city schools has failed to bring about an agreement on how to deal with dropping pupil numbers.

Carmina Burana promises to be a highlight of the choral festival in Cork, writes Jo Kerrigan.

Plans to close the North Monastery primary school in Cork City have been withdrawn after angry opposition by parents, pupils, staff and the wider local community.

Parents at the second of two Cork city primary schools proposed for amalgamation have voted unanimously against the move.

The proposed merger of two of Cork’s oldest primary schools is causing controversy on the city’s northside.

PURE city centre living is on offer at the Georgian-era townhouse, 32 Nicholas Street in the very heart of Cork, a precipitous and narrow hilly stretch within the city’s South Parish.

Comedian Tommy Tiernan has a great skit about NASA, and about the space race that culminated in the moon landing in 1969.

Political choices on the abortion debate should not be free from the influence of faith matters, the papal nuncio said yesterday.

Cork Choral Festival 2013 was another huge success, writes Declan Townsend

It was a dawn chorus with a difference as a city welcomed summer — and the start of an international five-day festival of choral music.

Bishop John Buckley couldn’t live in the Bishop’s Palace. He would feel cut off, he tells Claire O’Sullivan

Children have been exposed to deadly diseases after picking up needles discarded by heroin users who inject themselves on Cork streets.

Children have been exposed to deadly diseases after picking up needles discarded by heroin users who inject themselves on Cork streets.

Ten people lay dead across the road from where Mary Jones lived on Winchester Street.

An Irishwoman once described as “the most dangerous woman in America” for her fearless campaigning for workers’ rights is to be honoured in her native city this week.

The fairest of views can be had from this Shandon-view home, says Tommy Barker

The Grammy Award-winning British ensemble The King’s Singers present the Thursday Gala at Cork Opera House at 8pm this evening.

What I do: I am a singer with the Vocal Ensemble Gentlemen Singers from the Czech Republic.

The National Chamber Choir and the Gentlemen Singers both perform at Cork Choral Festival on May 4, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

More than 4,500 singers from all over the world will fly into Cork shortly to take part in the city’s 58th international choral festival.

The standout feature of this house must be the price which, at €55,000 is a steal in what must be the most under-rated residential area of the city, Rose Martin reports