The suspected theft of a ceremonial public plaque which was gifted to the people of Cork more than 30 years ago by one of its international twin cities is to be reported to gardaí.

A councillor leading the hunt for Cork’s ‘lost’ fountain has called for a nationwide audit of historic street furniture and public artefacts.

A middle-aged man minding his own business crossing the road was struck on the back of the head and fell to his knees, the victim stated yesterday.

A city councillor has offered a €100 reward for information leading to the return of an historic 19th-century fountain gifted to the people of Cork but which officials admit has been lost.

A 24-year-old man hoping to avoid detection for carrying drugs put two pieces of cannabis in his mouth and fled from gardaí with five deals of heroin in his underpants.

A grandmother bringing her grandson to McDonald’s for a treat was seriously injured when she slipped on an ESB manhole cover, but yesterday she lost her claim for compensation at the High Court in Cork.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet but cannabis by any other name might not be illegal — no matter how it smells.

€135,000 Shandon St house has ground-floor shop, says Tommy Barker.

Bagpipes owned by murdered Lord Mayor of Cork Tomás MacCurtain will be played for the first time in almost a century today during a ceremony to honour his role in the 1916 Rising.

An historic landmark Cork city church will host an open day and garden party next weekend to showcase progress on a major restoration project.

For the past decade, when driving east along Washington St in Cork City, I uttered a profanity at the abomination that is the Capitol Cinema complex on Grand Parade.

A woman who had her iPhone stolen at Mustangs nightclub in Killarney used the ‘Find My Phone’ app to track it down to a repair shop in Cork City. A subsequent Garda inquiry led to the discovery of 13 stolen phones, many of them taken from nightspots in the town.

An 86-year-old man was kicked in the leg on a street in Cork by a much younger man who shouted obscenities at him.

A murder trial witness said the accused first jokingly called a 59-year-old homeless man a paedophile and a kiddy-fiddler, then said it seriously and assaulted him, dragged him out of a flat, and came back saying “he has gone down the drain”.

A cyclist who died in a fall at the bottom of one of Cork’s steepest streets had no working brakes on his bike, an inquest has heard.

A €500,000 fundraising drive is under way to save and restore a landmark church and priory in the heart of Cork City.

One of Cork’s first heroin addicts has swapped his addiction for a pottery class.

Michael Noonan announced a 40c increase in the price of an old reliable — at the same time 260km away, a muffled groan went up in the Old Reliable.

Vacant shop windows are being transformed into artistic tourist information panels as part of a new approach to tackle dereliction in Cork City.

ONE of the striking things from Building Ireland, a six-part TV series that examines Ireland’s building and engineering heritage, is to realise how prominent the country was on the world stage in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sq m: 106 (1,150 Sq. ft)

A cyclist who was seriously injured in an accident in Cork city yesterday evening has died in hospital, gardaí said.

Cork’s North Cathedral was host to an ordination for the first time in 24 years at the weekend — the only ordination for the Cork Diocese this year.

Two local authority housing projects are to be built in Cork City as part of a €5m investment.

The Irish Examiner has opened its vast photographic archive for a festive exhibition which offers a glimpse of Christmas past in Cork.

The owner and developer of Cork’s new Islamic Cultural Centre has been warned he will have to apply for planning permission if he wants to extend its opening hours.

A fire-breathing Halloween dragon parade which has spooked Corkonians since 2006 has been put on ice for a year in a bid to develop a monster three-day festival.

A new Islamic cultural centre in Cork City which was the focus of a planning controversy last month is throwing open its doors to the public this weekend.

Talks between Muslim leaders and city planners about an Islamic centre in Cork at the centre of a planning controversy are set to take place within days.

A leading Muslim cleric has called for dialogue amid concerns that a planning row over an Islamic centre in Cork could fuel anti-Muslim sentiment.

WE were all new to this country once. My people sailed into Cobh and built their churches on the hills of Cork. There weren’t too many Congregationalists round the city in the early years of the last century, but my grandfather integrated quickly.

Planners have issued a warning letter to the owner and developer of a Muslim information centre at the centre of a planning row in the historic core of Cork City.

Members of the public have been invited to have their say tomorrow on plans for a bike-sharing scheme in Cork.

A woman had to be removed from her car by emergency services after crashing into the front door of a busy Cork City pub on Saturday evening.

The recent death of his dad gave 8-year-old Kieran Thomas all the impetus he needed to carry him across the finish line and into the waiting arms of his mother at yesterday’s Cork City Marathon.

Two separate grant schemes have been launched to help tackle dereliction in the historic spine of Cork City.

The directors of one of Cork’s oldest chains of bookmakers have told a creditors meeting that the company owes €500,000 to creditors but holds just €10,300 in assets.

Chinatown comes to Cork tonight as a huge fire-breathing dragon and more than 350 ghouls and zombies take over one of the city’s most historic areas.

Cork’s famous Shandon St was reopened last night after building inspectors gave the all-clear following a partial roof collapse.