Mad about reimagining Cork city community groups involved in painting, street art and guerrilla gardening projects are fuelling a renewed sense of pride Leeside, even making electricity boxes hot property, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

The theft of a historic sculpture from St Patrick’s Street has reignited a long-running conversation in Cork City about the handling of historic artefacts.

It was a moment that stood out from the rest and caught people's’ attention.

A local authority has defended the installation of an unsightly steel railing along an historic city quay.

Questions have been asked about the whereabouts of a missing antique fountain which once stood at the end of Shandon Street in Cork city centre.

They’ve breathed new life into the historic spine of their city, reinvigorating ancient lanes and public spaces with stunning murals and creative arts projects. Now they’re turning their attention to the city’s river and quays.

The key to identifying Aidan O’Driscoll’s killers may be stored in cameras of drivers who were in the Blackpool area of Cork City hours before last week’s brutal murder.

A landmark building on Cork’s famous Shandon Street is to be covered in ‘butter wrappers’ as part of a striking public art project.

Joe Fitzgerald who died on September 13, 2016, at the age of 94, was a man of very diverse activities — star businessman, Master of Slua Muiri in the 40s, Dinghy and Dragon sailor in the 50s and 60s — cruising man, Commodore of the Irish Cruising Club and Commodore of the Royal Cork in the 70s and 80s and friend and companion to all who knew him.

Renovation work and affordability draws the players, Trish Dromey finds.

There have been calls for a review of pedestrian crossing times in Cork City following complaints that people aren’t being given enough time to cross some of its busiest roads.

Casting a ghostly glow along the north channel of the River Lee, a fleet of small boats set sail at precisely 7.30pm last night, slid slowly along the riverbank walls alongside the Mercy Hospital and set off on a brief yet poignant journey towards Custom House Quay.

Tommy Barker basks in the gardens and city oasis of this hideaway home near cathedral and Bishop’s Palace.

The family of one of two homeless people whose bodies were taken from the River Lee on Sunday night has asked that donations be made to the Cork Simon Community.

A private investment portfolio of 28 apartments, and two retail units in Cork city centre is being offered to market in lots, worth €3.2 million combined.

The slopes of Cork city’s northside breed character.

A woman had to be removed from her car by emergency services after crashing into the front door of a busy Cork City pub on Saturday evening.

A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found after her house was set alight.

CORK CITY €45/65,000

Now you can drinks the streets of Cork dry — well, maybe its laneways.

No 39 Monastery Avenue is within an easy stroll of city centre Tommy Barker reports

No 83 Wolfe Tone Street, Cork, is an easy home to keep warm, Tommy Barker reports

Possibly the cheapest detached house to come on the market in Sunday’s Well for a while, this sun-trap home needs a strong hand to bring back to a good standard, writes Tommy Barker

An architect’s stand-out home uses every inch of space to maximum effect, and it’s clean-cut look is almost monastic writes Rose Martin

TRIBUTES were paid last night following the death of a community leader who campaigned for answers for the victims of Cork’s 2009 flood.

THIS is something else — a house with a site in one of the most built-up areas of Cork’s northside.

GARDAÍ investigating the murder of Ger ‘Topper’ Staunton in Cork city last week have appealed for a woman spotted near the scene around the time of the shooting to come forward.

GARDAÍ are investigating a number of separate complaints from pro-Lisbon groups after their posters were vandalised and the offices of TDs targeted.

THE Lee swim took place in Cork city last Saturday. Newspaper photographs showed the swimmers in what looked like clean water. The opposite was the truth.

GARDAÍ launched two major investigations yesterday after a spate of arson attacks in Cork city at the weekend.

THE first crematorium outside Dublin opened its doors quietly yesterday on an uninhabited island in Cork Harbour.

ONLY a few years old, and again done up to a high standard by its investor owner, no 46 Monastery Terrace, on Cork’s Monastery Hill along Blarney Street, is as likely to lure an astute investor as a private owner-occupier.

ONE of the success stories of Cork's reign as European Capital of Culture (CoC), the city's Crawford Art Gallery, has every intention of carrying the momentum on into 2006.

ON Sunday last, it was obvious from early morning that some event would be taking place later in the day in Cork city.

THE removal took place in Cork City last night of an Irishman whose body was found inside a freezer in an apartment in Portugal.

AS a resident of Pope’s Quay in Cork, I am writing to voice my annoyance at this whole bridge fiasco. The new bridge, is, in my opinion, pointless.

THE chance to get hip to the square has cropped up on Cork city’s North Mall — the Abbey Square home of Frank and Walters guitarist Niall Linehan is up for grabs.

ONE of Cork city’s best designed new apartment complexes is hiding its light under a bushel - you’d need a helicopter to realise just how successfully it has been squeezed into its quayside site.

ONE of the country’s most promising basketball stars died suddenly yesterday after suffering an epileptic fit.