"Cop yeerselves on — I told ye weren’t getting one,” shouted the woman in front of me at her two small kids earlier, on Parliament Bridge in Cork.

In 1991, the Temple Bar Architectural Framework Plan was welcomed as a visionary approach to creating a new “cultural quarter” for Dublin in one of the most historic areas of the city.

Over the next few years, we will find ourselves in a whirlwind of War of Independence centenary commemorations. It was a nationwide fight for freedom and here the rebel streets of Cork city heaved with revolution.

Campaigners opposed to OPW flood defence plans in Cork city have expressed concerns about the “dismissal” of 700 submissions on a quay revamp which will include integrated flood defences.

The €6m revamp of an historic Cork city quay which will include the city's first flood defences has been given the go-ahead.

Plans for flood defences to protect one of Cork City’s most flood-prone areas as part of a major public realm upgrade have gone on public display.

City councillors have called for the OPW’s controversial flood defence scheme for Cork to be peer-reviewed amid confirmation that work on phase one is due to start this summer.

Cork’s €140m flood relief project should be future-proofed by Dutch engineers who are world experts in flood scheme design.

A detective garda couldn’t believe it when he saw a man rolling a pram down the street with one hand and pushing a heavy industrial road cutting machine with the other.

Described as a commercial development opportunity on a modest scale is the proposed sale of No 23 George’s Quay, in Cork city centre.

Three-storey, two-bed townhouse in Cork is high-end, with a mid-floor kitchen and en-suites, says Tommy Barker.

The former Maddens TV shop, at no 5, Parliament St, is to let in Cork City

Further office sales and investments beckon on Cork city’s South Mall traditional offices heartland, hot on the heels of a building investment sale by Allsops last month, for €1.4million.

Two burglars in a stolen van careered through the streets of Cork without any regard for the safety of other motorists as they tried to escape pursuing gardaí.

Ryanair has defended its use of a photograph of Cork to promote flights to Dublin in a French newspaper — by claiming nowhere in the capital looked as nice.

In the second of a five-day series, Eoin English finds that the jobless figures in the Cork City area have surged to almost triple what they were in 2005.

A Naval Service Dive Team has recovered a woman's body from the River Lee in Cork city.

RESCUE services were last night searching for a woman who fell into the River Lee shortly before 9pm.

ROY KEANE’S recent departure from Sunderland led to the usual ham-fisted comparisons with Cork people in general, and the current Cork hurling stand-off in particular.

MIKE ‘The Rebel’ Perez, a former world junior champion, will headline the most exciting professional boxing show ever staged in Cork where he will be joined by two other Cuban-born world junior champions on another Nowhere to Hyde bill at Neptune Stadium on September 13.

A BRAVE garda who tried to save the 13-year-old who drowned on Sunday while swimming in the River Lee has spoken of his complete despair.

SPONTANEOUS applause broke out on the streets of Cork yesterday as people lined up to bid a final farewell to one of city’s last great characters.

A PROJECT involving the gradual cleaning of the River Lee continued yesterday.

TOP TV entertainer Graham Norton is to strike camp from his Cork city penthouse perch.