On Friday, Cork Culture night is going ahead all across the city and one of the best places to be is in University College Cork.

Munster’s European hopes came to a frustrating end for another season down by the Mediterranean yesterday, as they came up short in a Heineken Cup semi-final for the second year in a row.

A new direct passenger car ferry service linking Dublin with the French port of Cherbourg is being introduced by Irish Ferries.

THE Government’s proposal to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol following the recent budget increases will probably mean an end to the €5 bottle of wine in the supermarket.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death on charges related to one of the world’s deadliest incidents of soccer violence, which killed 74 mostly teenage fans of Egypt’s most popular sports club last year.

DARK winter days in January are not the time you expect to drink rosé, but there is one reason you should — if you are serving Indian food.

The head of Ireland’s largest fruit and vegetable producers has been jailed for six years for a €1.6m scam involving the importation of garlic.

Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history.

Fierce storms battered Britain today with heavy rain and winds gusting over 100mph.

Thousands of people will be travelling by car, train, bus or plane today to get home in time for Christmas.

The number of Irish beaches securing coveted Blue Flag status has hit an all-time high.

WHAT is love? Well, to judge by the sea of gifts and cards welling up in the shops this weekend it’s pink, frothy and ephemeral — basically the Jedward of emotions.

IT’S no easy task being in charge of the kitchens on the world’s second largest luxury liner that produces more than 100,000 main courses a week.

Scottish Diageo workers today appealed to shareholders to support their cause as the firm's plan to cut hundreds of jobs was branded "corporate greed".

Hopes of saving hundreds of whisky jobs in Scotland were dashed today after drinks giant Diageo rejected a Scottish government-backed proposal to counter their factory closure plans.

JANUARY 21, 2009 will be the 90th anniversary of a very important day in Irish history, but it is very likely that the day will go unnoticed.

A BORD Pleanála oral hearing was yesterday told that the Oyster Bank at Ringaskiddy was the most suitable of three sites examined for the Port of Cork’s proposed new €226 million container and cargo terminal.

Swedish golfer Patrik Sjoland upstaged home hopes Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman and Retief Goosen to grab the lead after the second round of a hotly contested SAA Open in Port Elizabeth.

THE PORT of Waterford is preparing to close the gates on a section of quay in the city which it has sold to a property developer, locking out fishermen who use it to land daily catches.

THE final bill for the Dublin Port Tunnel could exceed the estimated cost of €750 million because of a dispute between Dublin City Council and contractors working on the State’s largest ever infrastructural project.

New restrictions must be placed on heavy goods vehicles to stop cyclists being killed in large numbers, it was claimed today.

Three dockers at Dublin Port have won compensation at the Labour Court after being discriminated against because of their age.

Marine Minister Dermot Ahern has approved plans to upgrade the facilities at Port Oriel in Clogherhead, Co Louth.

Gardai have seized ecstasy, amphetamines and cannabis with a street value of €3.5m during three separate operations last night.

A major search operation was continuing today in north-west Ireland after a 22-year-old German backpacker went missing while on a cliff top walk.