Named with a delightful sense of innocence, or directness, is this Cork address, Doctors Road — and, no, it’s not the hinterlands of Orchard Road by the Bon Secours, the Hayfield or Heatherfield developments or even Bishopstown’s Highfield. All of those prescriptive ‘good’ Cork addresses have a preponderance of medics in situ, buying and selling.

Units of the Cork City and County fire brigade have responded to a fire at a recycling plant in Glanmire this morning.

Edmund Sexton beat Éamon Bowen Jnr by just over a metre in a highly-competitive score at Templemichael on Sunday.

TALKS between two of Cork’s biggest hospitals could result in a blueprint for a new city hospital within months, it has emerged.

AS a parent and a primary teacher with years experience, currently studying for a doctorate in education, I am dismayed that standardised testing is back on the agenda.