Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Two hundred years ago, a Cork City sugar merchant attempted to take hordes of poor Irish families to a fresh life in a land of plenty, in South Africa. But things didn’t quite work out as planned, explains Robert Hume

A group of private investors are aiming to have the tourist ferry service operational by next year and the commuter service up and running in 2022.

With breath-taking views and unrivalled elegance, Sheerwater is stunning, writes Catherine Shanahan

Sorting out Cork people for ages

Darren Murphy, 42, with an address at Dan Desmond Villas, Passage West, County Cork, denied murdering Olivia Dunlea

The enticing prospect of feasting your eyes as you tuck into your breakfast is an added bonus of this appealing County Cork residence.

Audrey's been sorting out Cork people for ages.

The largest engineering project of its type ever undertaken in this country will start shortly in Cork's lower harbour.

Three ages of summer with Camille O’Sullivan who recently finished her run at the Edinburgh Arts Festival.

Cork’s love affair with dining out, music, and coffee is driving a retail expansion throughout the city and suburbs.

Concerns have been raised that plans to provide proper accommodation at Haulbowline Naval base won't be enough to bring an end to sailors sleeping on ships on their days off.

A project aimed at ending the decades-long practice of discharging raw sewage into Cork Lower Harbour has taken a major step forward.

No additional resources have been given to either of Cork’s local authorities to enforce new rules on short-term letting.

The ESB is preparing to start a €1.2bn national roll-out of smart meters to businesses and households, beginning in parts of Cork and the greater Portlaoise area.

A young man started stealing tractors and cars within four days of his release from prison where he served a sentence for stealing cars.

With an ambitious new €3.5bn transport plan unveiled for the expanded metropolitan area of Cork, I am surprised to see the obvious overlooked.

The historic reorganisation of local government in Cork has impacted on most of Cork County Council’s municipal districts (MD) but none more so than this one.

The revamped Cork City South East local electoral area represents a daunting challenge for any single

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Seven third-level education and research institutes in Cork, attended by some 48,000 staff and students, have united to call for better cycling infrastructure.

Bail was refused in the case of a young man accused of engaging in two-week spree of stealing tractors and other vehicles and driving them around the city and county.

A meeting will be held in UCC tomorrow to plan for special centenary commemorations of the War of Independence and Civil War.

Two prisoners at Cork Prison were caught in possession of mobile phones during routine searches and each got a two-month term added his sentence.

Cork County Council warns it’s “a long way” from breaking even on money it has invested in Spike Island, even though the island has won a number of international tourism awards.

Residents in a Cork Harbour town have criticised plans to close roads in the area for 40 working days to facilitate works by Irish Water.

A Corkman who tried to smother his girlfriend before stabbing her in the neck when she asked “what about my kids?” has been convicted of her murder.

A man who denies murdering his girlfriend was categorised by the prosecution as a controlling individual who committed murder in a jealous rage but the defence claimed he felt provoked and lost control.

The defence in the case of a man who denies murdering his girlfriend at her home called evidence from a pathologist who suggested the victim died as a result of a stab wound and that smoke inhalation was not a factor.

The Cork man who admitted stabbing his girlfriend denied to gardaí that his motive for setting fire to her house was to conceal the killing and said he burned it so that the victim’s three children would not find her.

The Passage man on trial for murdering his girlfriend confessed to gardaí that he stabbed her with a kitchen knife and she did not even think it was coming.

The man accused of murdering his girlfriend at her home in Passage West, Co Cork, more than five years ago told gardaí that he snapped, stabbed her in the neck, and set fire to the house.

New ‘code-of-conduct’ signs are to be erected shortly on a greenway on the outskirts of Cork City amid fears more pedestrians could be knocked down by cyclists.

The extraordinary quality of political talent in Cork South Central sees it as one of the most hotly contested constituencies in the country, writes political correspondent Elaine Loughlin.

A man who pulled two young boys from a Cork river on Saturday afternoon said adrenaline spurred his actions as he dived into the currents to save them.

The number of frontline gardaí based in several Cork City Garda stations is still at 2010 levels despite the arrival of 15 probationary gardaí in two districts this week.

Work on an underwater sewage pipe crossing Cork’s lower harbour will start this year as part of a €117m project to end the daily discharge of thousands of tonnes of raw sewage into the sea.

A proposal to develop one of the longest greenways in Ireland, along the River Lee to the Cork coast has received the backing of the Green Party.