A consortium that owns some of Cork’s best-known pubs has initiated proceedings aimed at preventing Irish Bank Resolution Corporation selling its loans to Nama.

Sting played the Marquee on Leeside last night, but on Sunday, he was an ‘Englishman in West Cork’ and then back up in Cork City for some ‘Murphy’s in a Bottle’.

UP TO €1m is to be invested in a new micro-brewery in the old heart of Cork city, the Coal Quay.

One of Cork’s best known publicans has removed anti-abortion posters from one of his venues after they were placed there without his knowledge.