If you love antique and vintage stuff, chances are that once on any overseas holiday, you will start sniffing around for the best local sources of distressed goodies. Kya deLongchamps takes us Stateside.

Cork city’s St Luke’s Cross area is getting back to gentrification: visiting many of the homes here, on fine sunny days, you appreciate its enduring appeal.

SO THERE we were, walking along Dublin’s Great South George’s Street of a Sunday morning. 

They prematurely declared Scotland an independent country. Oops.

Bord Gáis is checking out of several of its office spaces on Cork city’s Lapps Quay — just as Cork City Council prepares a €2m quay upgrade, to include the €800,000 purchase of the old Cork Savings Bank at 1 Lapps Quay.

Brazil awoke today to city centres still smouldering after a night that shocked the nation: one million protesters took to the streets in scores of cities, with clusters clashing violently with police during anti-government demonstrations.

Yes, we will have a summer.

France rugby’s version of Manchester City have huge ambitions for the future, have dropped the good-time image and they also play in sky blue. Robert Kitson reports

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson reacted to the defeat by Burnley by making seven changes at the DW Stadium.

DEVELOPER Owen O’Callaghan is to seek planning permission this week for a €210 million office-led scheme on Cork city’s quays, and has promised an even more significant further office development in a year’s time.

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez sprang a surprise for this showdown of the only two unbeaten teams in the Barclays Premier League, by naming three strikers.

South Africa marked the 30th anniversary today of the death of Steve Biko, the symbol of black resistance worldwide who was killed by apartheid police.

West Ham boss Alan Curbishley will hand new signing Calum Davenport a debut as his side go in search of three Premiership points at Newcastle today.

Tottenham head coach Martin Jol dropped Robbie Keane to the bench for the clash against Wigan, with Mido and Jermain Defoe preferred to lead the attack at White Hart Lane.

Teams for tonight's Premiership clashes.

Teams for all today's 3pm kick-offs in the Premiership.

Aston Villa were boosted by the return of defender Jlloyd Samuel and midfielder Gavin McCann who had missed the Christmas programme with groin and knee problems respectively.

RETAIL tycoon Philip Green could ditch his bid to take over Marks & Spencer if talks with the trustees of its pension fund fail, it was reported yesterday.

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With its astronaut back home and healthy, the orbital capsule that made China’s first manned space mission a success began its own physical examination today – an exhaustive, part-by-part check-up to determine if everything worked according to plan.

THE Irish U-23 and junior teams for the world cycling championships in Belgium will be the best prepared ever according to Ciaran McKenna who heads the High Performance Committee responsible for team preparation those days.