The revamped Cork City local electoral areas are posing challenges and changes across the city but the northside of the river is undergoing a far more drastic change.

Ireland could be hit by a strong Atlantic storm later this week with winds of up to 150 kilometres an hour.

The Taj Mahal is a wonder of the modern world, but this national and international treasure needs swift and decisive action if it is not to lose its legendary lustre.

The Central Bank’s Philip Lane and fiscal watchdog Seamus Coffey have warned about the many risks facing the economy. They should add online shopping to the list, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

It might be easy to admire the numbers surrounding the global reach of this week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open before sitting back in anticipation of the deluge of dollars to come.

More than two out of five people would like to learn Irish and speak it more often but support is not as strong in Northern Ireland, a survey suggests.

Under Project Ireland 2040, the Taoiseach is promising to restart projects that were stalled during the recession.

A portal tomb, excavated only two years ago in Kerry, has revealed evidence of some of the earliest agricultural activity in north-west Europe.

Far too many four and five-star hotels in Ireland are under-performing and proving a disappointment to high-paying guests, according to Georgina Campbell, the woman behind the annual hospitality awards.

What's being rumoured online and in the papers.

Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a California teenager who livestreamed a car accident on Instagram that killed her younger sister.

You can say this much for certain about Damien Hirst — he doesn’t do low-key and his latest exhibition is no exception.

The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons — a measure some have criticised as an anti-Muslim move that worsens religious tensions.

Update - 7.45pm: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the United States to extradite a Muslim cleric he accuses of being behind Turkey's failed coup attempt.

I hope, when the refugees are being divvied up in Ireland, that the stretch of north-west Mayo along the Wild Atlantic Way, from Ballycastle to Bangor Erris, is not forgotten, as is usually the case.

There has been a major outbreak of mumps in Ireland over the past 12 months with almost 2,000 cases of the highly infectious disease having been notified to the health authorities.

Dairygold yesterday followed the example of other milk processors and reduced the price it will pay suppliers for June milk.

The public has been asked to take part in a survey to help save one of the country’s most endangered and iconic species of birds.

Tyrone were plunged into a relegation crisis following a heavy defeat to north-west neighbours Donegal at Ballybofey today.

LARGE amounts of water flowing into the North Atlantic from melting Polar ice caps, as a result of global warming, could have serious consequences for growing conditions along our south and west coasts.

A blast at an explosives factory in north-west Bulgaria might have killed as many as 15 people, authorities say.

Former England international Ian Wright is understood to have flown home from Brazil after his wife and children were burgled at knifepoint.

AbbVie is to manufacture one of the world’s newest blockbuster drugs following an €85m expansion at its plant in Sligo.

Ukraine’s prime minister has told leaders in the east of the country that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers.

Irish MEPs have requested funding from the EU Solidarity Fund to help repair damage caused by superstorm Christine.

It seems that news of the demise of ginger people has been greatly exaggerated, as a “shadow army” of carriers of the gene exists across Europe.

Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence, a leaked report said.

Osama bin Laden was able to live in Pakistan undetected for nine years because of a breathtaking scale of negligence and incompetence, a leaked report said.

A car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 16 people and wounding 42 others.

Bombings at two mosques in north-west Pakistan have killed at least 10 people, police say.

Andre Villas-Boas thinks Emmanuel Adebayor could be the key to helping Tottenham pull off an improbable victory against Basle which would see the club move into their first European semi-final in 29 years.

French actor Gerard Depardieu will not turn up at a Paris court to face charges of drink-driving, his lawyer said today.

Butty Sugrue was some man for one man.

A politician has said RTÉ is costing his county thousands of visitors because of dodgy weather forecasts.

Everton look to have won the race to sign Croatia international wing-back Danijel Pranjic, fuelling speculation that Leighton Baines is on his way out of Goodison Park to Manchester United.

An elderly man was killed while trying to rescue his friend from crocodiles in north-west Zimbabwe.

Fears for the future of 650 staff at credit card company MBNA have been allayed after its owner, Bank of America, managed to sell part of the business as a going concern.

The HSE will save only €57 million in the first year after an expected 3,000 staff leave under the Government’s pensions deadline — only one third of the expected savings.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger reserved special praise for young winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain despite his side losing 1-0 at home to Manchester City in the Carling Cup quarter-finals last night.

Stoke have made their "last bid" to Tottenham for striker Peter Crouch and midfielder Wilson Palacios, according to Potters chairman Peter Coates.

MORE than 4,000 Irish people could be suffering from an “invisible” serious brain injury caused by alcohol abuse, according to research.

Two explosions went off minutes apart in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar early today, killing 34 people and injuring nearly 100 in one of the deadliest attacks since the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month, officials said.

Taliban fighters killed eight Pakistani soldiers at a checkpoint in an Afghan border region that the army had said was cleared of insurgents, while two bomb attacks today in the north-west killed six civilians, officials said.