The final weeks in school for over 55,000 Leaving Certificate students with themes about school days and childhood memories on their English papers.

Oh dear!

The pied piper of Neptune is back. He’s recruited and coached against NBA talent, scouted Steph Curry and watched more game film and planned more sessions than just about any coach involved in Irish sport. Now, after three decades in the all-consuming ‘rabbit hole’ that’s NCAA basketball, Pete Strickland is back where his coaching career began, in Ireland, masterminding the revived national senior team programme.

Kevin Barry’s new play reconnects the Limerick writer with his old stomping ground of Cork, writes Des O’Driscoll.

A young American woman who spoke on television about working in Cork as a prostitute was put on trial yesterday for having a cannabis growhouse at her city apartment.

Selfies taken by a motorist led to his prosecution on multiple counts of dangerous driving after he took off at speed from gardaí through red lights in Cork City.

Selfies taken by a motorist led directly to his prosecution on multiple counts of dangerous driving after he took off at speed from gardaí through red lights in Cork city.

When Cork hurlers win the All-Ireland, next year or the year after, they will have Michael Moynihan to thank.

We all know men love their motors but the action at yesterday’s Red Bull Soapbox Race proves a car doesn’t even need a motor for a man to fall in love.

 

As Corcadorca marks 25 years of great theatre in Cork, Pat Kiernan and Enda Walsh tell Alan O’Riordan about the early days, Disco Pigs and what’s happened since

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has agreed to consider alternative locations for a step-down facility to house female ex-prisoners as the first choice site has provoked controversy being in the vicinity of no less than eight schools.

A new selection process, twice as many Roses, an extra night on television, and a longer festival are all reasons why this year’s Rose of Tralee will be the best yet, according to host Dáithí Ó Sé and reigning rose Elysha Brennan.

A student wearing traditional Pakistani dress who asked a fellow student in UCC for directions was in court yesterday over a sexual assault conviction that arose from what he claimed was a ‘thank you’ hug.

EARLIER this week, singer Damien Dempsey stood on stage at Trafalgar Square, in London, under the stern gaze of Admiral Nelson’s statue.

The number of parking fines issued in Cork City declined by 22% last year with almost 7,700 fewer tickets handed out to offending motorists.

I’ve spent much of my life raging against stupidity and injustice. 

Seán Kelly set the pace for 120 amateur cyclists out of Waterford yesterday on a tough four-day cycle through Munster’s six counties.

Tommy Barker is stone-mad about a pitch-perfect, quirky and quality city retreat

WHEN Philip and Amy Keohane stood in Cork City centre last summer, watching scores of saddle-weary cyclists struggle up the near-vertical height of Patrick’s Hill, they cried.

ALTHOUGH increasing numbers of us buy our wine at the supermarkets, this week I want to encourage you to remember the independent wine shops who can often provide more variety and unusual styles.

HAVING never seen an electric bike before, I had the false preconception that it was a first cousin to the electric car and that you could drive it like those bicycles you sometimes see in France with a little motor attached to the front wheel.

THE MINUTE I got into the taxi I could see by the way the back of his head was dug into his shoulders that he was a disgruntled taxi driver from central casting.

I’m not usually one for trading secrets with guys I want to beat in races, but here’s a confession.

A highlight of Midsummer Festival was a series of plays performed in unlikely locations about Cork city, says arts editor Marc O’Sullivan

For most of us, skiing constitutes a leisure activity more than a sport, but for Cork sisters Claire (15) and Isabel (13) O’Leary it could be the ticket to representing Ireland at the Winter Olympics.

Burst pipes and back-boiler, flooded sitting room and cake-hungry mice feature among Áilín Quinlan’s not-so-happy festive memories

BUILT at the end of the last Great Depression, the 1930s Art Deco-style home The Haven, is for sale in the teeth of another tough time economically — but this lofty place is at least in as good a shape as it has been in its long lifetime.

A PROPOSAL to introduce a 30 kilometre-an-hour speed limit on Cork city’s main street is not only dumb, it is potentially dangerous.

IT was billed as the ‘marathon for everyone’ and it looked like everyone got their skates on – or at least their running shoes – for the Cork City Marathon.

THE man who died in a crash on a stolen motorcycle in Cork city on Monday night was previously caught stealing a car on the same street.

A heroin dealer in Cork city was jailed for six years today, as the drugs squad said the problem had surfaced in the area over a year ago.

SEAN KELLY left Cork yesterday on his Tour of Munster stage across the Vee, on to Cashel and to Limerick but he will be back next Wednesday to see how the young guns of world and Irish cycling handle the notorious St Patrick’s Hill climb when the Tour of Ireland hits it at the end of its first stage from Kilkenny.

THE world’s leading cyclists contest the five day Tour of Ireland next August.

FINANCIAL guru Eddie Hobbs and All-Ireland hurling hero Seán Óg Ó hAilpín have been installed by the bookies as joint favourites to lift the title of Cork Person of the Year, at the annual awards ceremony which will be held in the Rochestown Park Hotel today.

I SALUTE everyone who was involved in organising the Andrea Bocelli concert in Collins Barracks, Cork, last Friday night.

SPANKING new inside and ready to move into, number 39 Sydney Park in Cork is a smasher.

CORK will host the world’s steepest soapbox race this Sunday before an estimated audience of 30,000.

ONE of those grand old buildings which climb the steep incline that is Patrick’s Hill in Cork, number 23A, is on the market with Mark Kelly of Hamilton Osborne King.

ONE of the very early owners of number 8 Audley Place, on the tip top of Patrick’s Hill in Cork city, placed an interesting codicil on the deeds of the property.

ONE of Cork city’s best kept secrets has to be Sidney Park, just off Patrick’s Hill.