The family of a 92-year-old church sacristan who died after an accident on a pedestrian crossing say they hope he can rest in peace after a raft of safety recommendations were made at an inquest yesterday.

The incident happened at around 10.15am at Ennis Mart on the outskirts of the town.

Tommy Barker An entire apartment development with 62 units in Cork city’s suburbs is for sale, as a single lot, being offered to investors with a guide price of €17.5m.

There's hardly a row of homes in Cork city’s older southside suburbs with as much ‘kerb appeal’ as those on one side of Ardfoyle Crescent: even their entrance pillars set quite a tone of grandeur, in red brick and crowned with large terracotta globes.

Cliodhna Sargent’s penalty corner strike powered Cork Harlequins into the Irish Senior Cup semi-finals as they snatched a late 2-1 win over Muckross.

AN overseas investment fund, as yet unconfirmed, is the buyer of the c€30 million residential-led investment sale of the City Square development, in Cork City’s Blackpool, which has a weekly income of €40,000, or c €2m per annum.

For someone who won five world amateur championships in four different continents it should come as little surprise that Katie Taylor thrives away from the home comforts that await her back in Bray.

Suzanne Harrington takes an imaginary look inside the White House. 

Whoever becomes 45th president of the United Stateswill be expected to deliver a unifying speech, saying that they will work for all Americans, both those who voted for them and those who voted against.

The trial of seven people charged with murdering a man, who was beaten to death, has heard that another man seen punching and kicking him repeatedly was charged with assault causing harm.

The trial of seven people charged with murder has heard that two of them had blood on their clothing shortly after a group was seen fleeing the bridge where Dale Creighton was found unconscious.

The jury in the trial of seven Dubliners charged with murder has seen footage of what the prosecutor described as a “vicious, prolonged and sustained attack” involving kicks and stamps to the 20-year-old’s head and body, after which he was thrown “like a rag doll”.

The second season of the EY Hockey League gets underway this weekend and 11 Olympians will feature, fresh from their Rio 2016 campaign.

Some unusual names will adorn hockey’s St Stephen’s Day trophies around Ireland after a quartet of entertaining finals produced a glut of goals.

Banbridge’s reign as Irish Senior Cup holders came to an abrupt end while there were also big successes for non-EY Hockey League sides on a turbulent cup weekend.

George Clooney was involved in a car crash on Thursday night.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

It won’t take much extra work to put a more modern shine of the grandly-titled Lavanagh House, a four-bedroomed, single storey bungalow directly opposite the Lavanagh Centre/Enable Ireland in Cork city’s Ballintemple.

A young player from New Orleans, Odell Beckham Jr, stole the show on Sunday night with a three-fingered catch that will intrigue for years to come

Before it gets grim around here, allow me to get a little sentimental.

Get a slice of Big Apple style with inspired use of colour, savvy use of space and soft

The son of property developer Gerry Gannon was found dead in his living room, having taken methadone, an inquest heard.

The new NFL season in the US is bringing with it more moral confusion than ever and it’s only the beginning of August.

Firefighters scouring the scene of a gas blast in New York City which flattened two apartment buildings have found a seventh body.

A fifth person has been confirmed killed by an explosion that flattened two New York City apartment buildings.

At least three people have been confirmed dead after a gas leak triggered an earth-shaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings in New York City.

An explosion has destroyed two New York City apartment buildings, killing at least two people and injuring 17 others.

There are reports that a building has exploded and collapsed in New York.

I know how galling this all must be, hearing about the big North American freeze and the tremors of polar madness it’s firing across the ocean to stir things up around your way.

Homes and business owners are beginning to count the cost as the latest 120km/h winds batter the west and south coasts.

Men At Lunch, the documentary inspired by the iconic photograph taken during the construction of New York’s Rockefeller Center, received its cinematic release in New York yesterday, 81 years to the day since 11 steelworkers nonchalantly posed on a beam dizzyingly high above Manhattan.

A 30-year-old New Yorker who spat at a flight attendant on board a transatlantic flight yesterday escaped jail.

Next February, the first cold-weather outdoor Super Bowl will take place in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.

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Organisers of two candlelit vigils in New York City over the past two evenings have called for a boycott of travel to Ireland in light of Savita Halappanavar’s death.

Thought sample sales were just for the fashion elite? Meet Susan Lyne, the woman who has brought them online — so we can all pick up designer goods for less. Nancy Hess reports

The past should prove an inspiration rather than a burden for Cork Harlequins as they bid to become the longest odds Irish Senior Cup winners in some time.