An inspection of a mental health facility in Cork found its residents were not receiving adequate privacy or outdoor space.

It's all falling into place for a talented Irish artist who returned to painting after her children were raised.

The Housing Minister has defended the government’s Rebuilding Ireland plan and insists that a large state-owned site in Cork, which has lain vacant for years, is being considered for housing.

A driving force behind addiction treatment, Sr Margaret Kiely is grateful for the many opportunities she’s had to live life to the full, writes Rowena Walsh

Work to dismantle Cork's famous Shakey Bridge has begun.

Ambitious housing plans are being prepared for a former asylum building on the northside of Cork city which has been boarded up since it was gutted in a suspected arson attack just over two years ago.

A project aimed at ending the decades-long practice of discharging raw sewage into Cork Lower Harbour has taken a major step forward.

An 18-year-old man is to appear before a special sitting of Waterford District Court this evening charged in connection with a fatal stabbing which occurred in the Dunmore East area last year.

The number of people seeking help for cocaine addiction has trebled since 2016, new treatment centre figures show.

Mater Private Cork will add another 25 staff members once it adds two now operating theatres and a 30-bed day care ward by the end of 2019.

Three out of four mental health centres inspected failed to reach acceptable standards of cleanliness and maintenance, the inspector of mental health services has revealed.

A young mother disqualified from driving failed to stop at a Garda checkpoint and was pursued by a patrol car for 45 minutes from West Cork to Cork City while she was “stoned” from cannabis.

A €30m affordable housing project on public land on Cork’s northside has been granted planning permission.

Patients with bed sores, patients sleeping on mattresses, lack of access to therapies — all feature in the litany of failings criticised by inspectors in the latest reports from the Mental Health Commission.

The HSE is planning to dispose of a huge, fire-damaged former hospital on the open market, despite calls from a local authority for the site to be used for housing.

A postage-stamp sized site in the heart of Cork City, which was bid upon by US-based developers earlier this year up to a reported €1.3m, is among the 200 lots at the December BidX1 end-of-year online auction.

A “masterplan” is to be prepared to develop a former psychiatric hospital campus in Cork City after a disused unit was gutted in a suspected arson attack.

Five units of the Cork City Fire Brigade were needed to tackle a large blaze at the old St Kevin’s unit at the former Our Lady’s Hospital site in Shanakiel.

Latest: One of the best known buildings in Cork city - the former Our Lady's Hospital - is engulfed in flames tonight.

52-year-old John Ryan was last seen four days ago

This two-storey property was built in the mid 1950s, and so will be newer than many of the neighbouring homes, and it has an elevated deck, facing south. 

A 29-year-old Corkman charged with discharging a firearm, arising out of an investigation into a young woman being shot in the neck 10 days ago, yesterday said he was seeking bail.

“This is my daughter Ciara. I would just like to show you the impact of this.”

There’s an appeal to home hunters either end of a long spectrum, at the end of a short terrace, at Cork city’s Shanakiel suburb by the 1870’s Gothic revival church St Mary’s.

A father-of-nine threatened to destroy a new €5 million Traveller housing facility in Cork city and told gardaí: “We’ll make your lives hell in the new site.”

The houses at Cork’s Ashboro, up in Shanakiel and above Sunday’s Well, are big blocks of homes: in fact, it’s nearly a surprise to find that houses here like No 8 Ashboro have ‘only’ 1,900 sq ft inside in them.

Gardaí in Cork have questioned two Polish men, following the seizure of €10,000 worth of drugs during a search of a house in Ballincollig yesterday.

With the latest opinion polls showing independence for Scotland becoming a very possibility, would it be an appropriate time to suggest a radical new proposal for the governance of the western flank of these islands?

Size: 85sq m (900sq ft)

Size: 130 sq m + 1 acre site

The Government and junior minister Kathleen Lynch were accused of prioritising “political expediency” over the needs of mental health patients as they were lambasted in the Seanad for shutting acute psychiatric beds in counties Galway and Cork.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Gardaí seized machetes, knives, and iron bars and arrested 14 people when rival gangs clashed on Cork’s northside — one of several violent incidents which marred the city’s traditional bonfire night celebrations.

The HSE is under fire for allowing buildings on a former mental hospital complex fall into total dereliction over the past decade.

The only family remaining on an estate due to be demolished are living in fear, says Eoin English

Dispersed around the country are 142 HSE properties, all of them vacant, many of which have lain idle for more than a decade.

More than 140 HSE properties around the country are lying idle at a time when the executive is paying €40m annually renting space.

Auckland it ain’t but Tommy Barker finds a peach named after a beach in a lofty location in Ireland’s southern hemisphere

Auckland it ain’t but Tommy Barker finds a peach named after a beach in a lofty location in Ireland’s southern hemisphere