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

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

A Cork woman who is suing the HSE and two laboratories claiming there was a delay in her cervical cancer diagnosis is to be given key documents relating to reviews and audits of three previous smear tests.

A search is continuing this morning for a fisherman missing off the Wexford Coast.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A stunning new mural with a conservation theme has been unveiled on the quayside in Cork city as part of a new city placemaking initiative.

Terminally ill Ruth Morrissey and her husband Paul who sued over her CervicalCheck smear tests were today awarded a total of €2.1m by the High Court in her landmark action.

The High Court judge hearing the action by terminally ill Ruth Morrissey against the HSE and two US laboratories over the alleged misreading of her CervicalCheck smear slides hopes to give his judgement in the test case in early May.

Former World Champion and Olympic medal-winning race walker, Rob Heffernan, will have to keep a slower pace than usual when he serves as Grand Marshal at the Cork city St Patrick’s day parade which gets under way at 1pm tomorrow.

John Palmer has been running his musical instrument shop in the heart of Waterford city for 30 years.

A new play delves into the lives of the shawlies, the Cork women who were ahead of their time in running a family and a business, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) has ruled that a notice of termination served on a resident of the Leeside Apartment building in Cork City is valid — in a move a TD said opened the way for other tenants to be evicted.

Confirmation of the financial services firm Clearstream to over 70,000 sq ft, plus an optional extra of 20,000 sq ft more for 600 well-paid financial services jobs at Navigation Square on Cork city’s quays makes it one of the very largest-ever office deals in Cork city.

Irish4Israel welcomes the decision of the American government to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. For more than 2,000 years the Jewish people have yearned to return to Jerusalem, that desire became a reality in 1967.

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The design brief was to reimagine and renew the public space at Fr Matthew and Morrison’s Quay — the historic centre of Cork, but also one of the most flood prone areas of the city.

The chairman of the Port of Cork says it is vital for the country’s economic future that An Bord Pleanála give the green light to the proposed €180m Cork-Ringaskiddy motorway.

DEVELOPMENT worth €160 million, spanning eight buildings and to include 237 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 400,000 sq ft of offices and an acre of open plaza is coming on track on Cork city’s Horgan’s Quay.

Gardaí have been warning the public about parking restrictions this week ahead of the Munster quarter-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

An 11-year-old owes his life to the quick response of two recently retired lifeboat members and the expertise of the emergency services.

Dublin Fire Brigade say part of Custom House Quay has been closed due to a gas leak on North Wall Quay.

ONE of the country’s largest financial advisory firms, Deloitte, has committed to a new, long-term lease on its upgraded Cork city centre offices.

Depaul have announced that they will open a new emergency night service in Dublin.

Retail giant Dunnes Stores has been accused of “giving two fingers to the people of Cork”, after apparently ignoring the Lord Mayor’s request for a meeting to discuss the closure of one of its largest city stores.

Trader in historic part of city says the area still has ‘huge potential’ but ‘is like the land that time forgot’

IT IS not often that one can include the trade union movement and a stained glass window in the one sentence.

The developers of the site where U2 recorded some of their albums have failed in their battle with Dublin City Council over a disputed Luas Red Line payment of almost €500,000.

Nama was the €72bn missing elephant of the election campaign, writes Political Editor

While Bernard McNamara’s offer to do remedial work at the Longboat Quay complex at cost price would save residents financial pain, questions arise as to how the work could be done at this rate and if the recommended works would be completed in full, writes Michael Clifford

Des O’Sullivan says that 2015 has been a year when records were broken for sales of art and sculpture.

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Twenty years after it hit national headlines, set political and business shock waves and repercussions that saw Ministerial resignations, tribunals and indirectly the demise of a serving Taoiseach, Cork City’s Horgan’s Quay site is back up for grab, openly this time, by tender.

Pressure is mounting on Dublin City Council to foot the €4m bill for fire safety remedial works in the 299-apartment complex Longboat Quay.

Two different property offers, one to let, the other to buy, are on the market at 6 Lapps Quay, in the heart of Cork city, next to the Clarion Hotel, bus station and near the rapidly developing One Albert Quay.

Documents furnished to a buyer of a unit at the questionable Longboat Quay complex did not reveal the extent of existing issues, writes Michael Clifford

The developers of the site where U2 recorded some of their best-loved albums have entered a battle with Dublin City Council over a disputed Luas Red Line payment of almost €500,000.

THE city centre garage site of the former motor dealership, PJ O’Hea’s, which was in business for 87 years, has been put up for sale a decade after its short-lived relocation to East Gate.

Thirty new jobs have been announced at augmented reality development company DAQRI in Dublin.