Tributes have been paid to a woman who tragically lost her life in a collision involving a truck on Smith Street in Cork city centre yesterday.

Investigating officers have also appealed for witnesses to the freak accident off Oliver Plunkett Street to contact them.

A Swiss-based investor has commenced building a portfolio of Cork city centre properties, having spent close to €5 million to date, acquiring a number of well-established buildings on Oliver Plunkett Street and St Patrick’s Street, with over 12 tenants combined, and getting an average 8% rent return on his purchases.

Cork publican and local legend Brian O'Donnell has died.

Let’s start this week with a couple of questions. What is the world’s best-value wine? And what is the world’s best-value fine wine for long ageing?

SMALL retail businesses and service providers in Cork can look forward to a markedly more prosperous future as the city progresses through a generation of significant investments.

The family-friendly parade will mix red-hot jazz bands with fiery Cork characters who will dance through the city streets in a dramatic musical procession.

What do you get when you mix red-hot jazz with the fiery characters of Cork, and the unique surge of Guinness?

A once-a-year opportunity comes up next weekend when buildings of architectural merit, that are not usually accessible by the public, open their doors, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Extinction Rebellion activists have targeted the Port of Cork in their campaign of environmentalism.

Gardaí are appealing for information following a hit and run in Cork.

Gardaí are appealing for information following a hit and run in Cork this evening.

A Cork gym which had to close temporarily after just a month in business has said it is “confident” it will soon be able to confirm a re-opening date.

A Leaving Cert student out celebrating his results was punched in the face and had his nose broken after he put his foot on the bonnet of a car.

An intermediate Cork hurler who spent two months remanded in prison for an assault on another man and a woman in Cork city centre was given a fully suspended two-year jail term.

Cork city’s Clancy’s bar is set to rise again, in time for its 195th birthday, part of a c€3.5/€4m total investment by its new consortium of owners.

As the Metropole Hotel unveils its own new snug, Donal O’Keeffe takes a leisurely stroll around Cork and visits some of the city’s cosiest pub corners.

There’s no shortage of music options at the newly-expanded festival.

A man begging on the street was caught with a knife down in his pants but he claimed the only reason he carried it was that he was sick of people taking the cup he used for begging.

According to the Lonely Planet’s latest Ireland edition, “everything good about Ireland can be found in County Cork”. Truth or just wishful thinking? We sent Rob O’Donnell, an American living in deepest West Cork, out to play tourist for a day and give his verdict.

A CORK city centre complex of retail and offices, fronting two streets and with a combined income of €96,000 per annum is for sale at a price guide just north of €1m.

APARTHOTEL use is mooted for a Cork bar and entertainment complex, just put up for sale and with almost 200 years of trading history in the heart of the city centre.

A man sat into the passenger seat of a publican’s car and tried to rob a bag containing €805 in cash but claimed he was trying to prevent a possible drink-driving incident.

It was far from scary in the National Lottery HQ today as three players from Monaghan, Donegal and Cork celebrated a Happy Hallo'win after collecting €363,294 on Lotto and Scratch Cards.

Currently available for rent and right in the centre of Cork city, is Stapleton House.

The family of a young Cork man are worried about him since he went missing on Sunday morning.

The group of people took to Facebook to plead their case with the County Council and the Mullingar Town Team.

THREE retail-based Cork city investments, worth a combined €3 million-plus and each promising a yield of c.8.25% come to the open market this week with Cushman & Wakefield, pitched at private investors, and to those in search of pension income.

First South Africa, then the Rockefeller Centre, New York – and, now Cork is about to be hit by Rain.

Gardaí objected to a new burrito outlet in Cork city getting a licence to serve wine on the basis that it was in the middle of “a public disorder hotspot”.

A brave Cork man has told how a visit to the dentist led to the greatest battle of his life – against one of Ireland’s rarest cancers, writes Sarah Horgan of the Evening Echo

One year on – Oliver Plunkett Street traders reflect on their ‘Great Street Award 2016’, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Superdry, which was forced to reinstate the famous ‘The Moderne’ sign over its premises in Cork last year following the intervention of planning officials and a formal complaint from a member of the public, has won an award for its preservation of the building.

The Cork Guinness Jazz Festival weekend is nearly upon us and one Cork pub has gotten to the heart of the celebration in their promo video released on Wednesday.

AS THE very last section of shiny, white Techcrete cladding panels swung into place this week on Cork City’s rapidly-emerging €50m Capitol retail and office complex, a pedestrian passerby on Grand Parade observed “ah, the last piece of the jigsaw”.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has directed the case against a young woman, accused of assault causing harm to a bouncer at a pub in Cork, could only be dealt with at Cork District Court on a plea of guilty.

I never dreamed that I could be anything as fabulous as a performer. It was beyond my wildest dreams.