An inquest has heard how four members of a family died while attempting to do a u-turn on a busy national road.

The death has occurred, at the age of 89, of Loyal Goulding, Ardmahon House, Well Road, Cork, and one of the great characters of Cork and Irish golf for many years.

Tommy Barker reports on two homes that form our house of the week.

Cork County Council has unveiled an ambitious €723m plan for housing, roads, and other major projects which it proposes to undertake up to 2020.

It will be 2020 before the Waterford hurlers play a Munster championship home fixture at Walsh Park.

Shuffle forward a week from now and the drawbridge will close on applications for the role of the GAA’s next director general. Interesting times lie ahead, but the process of appointing Pauric Duffy’s successor has already shone a revealing light on an association at war with itself.

Book proposal #812: a modernist novel in which a forlorn student searches Dublin up and down for recognisable GAA food ahead of a big match.

Cash-strapped local authorities have to find millions of euro from their own resources to restore public servants’ pay.

Transport chiefs have been accused of treating women as second-class citizens by refusing to implement the renaming of one of Cork’s busiest roads after the “forgotten women” of the Irish revolution.

A ban on major road works in the heart of Cork City will come into effect within weeks in a bid to prevent chronic traffic congestion over the festive period.

A post from the Facebook account of the Down Rose, Fainche McCormack, has criticised the Rose of Tralee as well as a documentary by RTÉ on the event.

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Tommy Barker steps aboard a very special marine-themed 1920s home in Currabinny.

Arguably fewer cars troubled Cork this Easter Monday than was the case 100 years ago, as the city centre was taken over by pedestrians for the city’s state commemoration of the 1916 Rising.

An extra €205m to equip the gardaí with modern technology is part of a €875m justice capital plan promised by the outgoing Government.

The Public Services Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has voted to approve the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

Cobh Low Road houses are Cork’s version of Killiney. Inver, one of 14 houses here in a line of magnificent Victorian villas, makes a precipitous stand towards the sea, and is a handsome maritime home. 

Aidan Desmond was an impressive winner over Seán Twomey in the Munster Junior C semi-final at Templemichael on Sunday.

Imokilly 0-20 UCC 0-17: Imokilly’s greater balance in attack proved vital in returning the divisional outfit to the Cork SHC fourth round after a six-year hiatus.

Des O’Sullivan reports on an unusual offering at Whyte’s auction house in Dublin.

Cork County Council hopes to secure advance funding from the Department of Environment to build new roads and bridges which will open up two adjoining sites in East Cork for major development.

The major extension proposed for the Bon Secours Hospital, in Cork City, has been approved by An Bord Pleanála.

Esther N McCarthy invited Michelin-starred chef Andy McFadden into her kitchen to pass on some of his expertise and, more importantly, help up her serve up a two-course delight for her beloved.

The Special Criminal Court has ruled that members of the public should be excluded from the court when six members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit give evidence in the trial of eight Dublin men accused of IRA membership.

Locals in Bray say they are shocked by last night's gun attack.

Councillors will get a chance midweek to press Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe about the importance of building a bypass to relieve congestion in a grid-locked Cork town.

The builders are coming to Cork’s Skehard Road, following on the €850,000 auction sale last week of a house on 1.25 acres there, and with a dozen or two dozen new homes now expected to replace that old five-bed dwelling and its garden. 

An IRA prison escapee pardoned by Margaret Thatcher’s government has said she was a pragmatist whose ministers made small concessions as part of dealings with Ireland.

Croke Park is set for its busiest weekend of the year, with 120,000 patrons expected through the turnstiles on Jones’ Road.

A woman was taken to hospital with a suspected fractured elbow after one of several confrontations between Irish Water contractors and protesters in Dublin yesterday.

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Five years ago I had my lifetime’s collection of militaria stolen by a ruthless gang who broke in using sledge hammers and smashed all my doors.

The Garda overtime bill has plummeted from €115.3m in 2008 to €42.4m last year.

Schools and students face disruption from tomorrow as industrial action by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) commences.

A portion of the Tralee/Newcastle West road is expected to remain closed for the next two hours after a school bus caught fire.