The €10.5m regeneration of a historic convent and school as a heritage centre has been described as a living showcase of one of Ireland’s greatest social justice pioneers.

Cork is set to honour its sustainable food heroes as an inner city community unveiled an ambitious regeneration plan which includes growing their own food.

The sister of a woman who was found dead in a derelict building in Cork City last week has told mourners at her funeral that she will “always be around” through her baby son.

Plans for more than 100 social housing units on four inner city sites are set to breathe new life into the heart of Cork city.

The family behind one of the country’s oldest independent book shops will celebrate 100 years in business today with an eye on the next chapter of their remarkable story.

One of the country’s first anti-water charges groups has vowed to mount “sustained resistance” against meter installation on “their own patch”.

Tommy Barker on reasons you’ll be glad of this top floor two-bed pad.

Following in the footsteps of Dublin and Limerick, and dozens of other cities around the world, Cork is to host an ‘Open House’ weekend of its architectural highlights and gems.

Seven homes in Cork’s South Parish offer modern comforts in an old city quarter, and the last one’s now on offer, writes Tommy Barker.

Residents on the northside of Cork City have vowed to resist the installation of water meters until a water pipe in their estate which they say has been leaking for over a decade, is repaired.

A key figure in the growing anti-water meter movement in Cork has distanced himself from another blockade group after ugly scenes during a fracas.

A former school and convent is to be transformed into a €10m heritage site honouring the founder of the Presentation order of nuns.

A five-year-old schoolboy was jabbed by a heroin addict’s needle which was thrown into his school’s play area minutes before break time yesterday.

There have been calls to extend a city-sponsored painting grant scheme which has breathed new life into Cork’s historic spine.

PURE city centre living is on offer at the Georgian-era townhouse, 32 Nicholas Street in the very heart of Cork, a precipitous and narrow hilly stretch within the city’s South Parish.

“You can almost dial for heroin in Cork now,” says Sinn Féin councillor Chris O’Leary.

Location: Cork city

Townhouse in top condition, close to city centre has a lot to offer Tommy Barker reports

Plans have been drawn up to make part of Cork City safer by night in an effort to prevent a repeat of a horror attack which led to a Spaniard being hospitalised.

The Spanish man brutally beaten with a golf club in Cork City was reunited with his young son yesterday after being released from hospital.

Investigations are ongoing after a Spanish man was attacked with a golf club in Cork city when he refused to hand over cigarettes or his mobile phone to a gang of youths.

ONE of Cork’s most historic communities has called for an aggressive and coordinated assault on dereliction to restore their village to its former glory.

OPENING officially next Tuesday is a new social housing scheme by Clúid.

THE redevelopment of Iarnród Éireann Horgan’s Quay site in Cork city is one of the most crucial elements of the city’s draft development plan published yesterday.

SPONTANEOUS applause broke out on the streets of Cork yesterday as people lined up to bid a final farewell to one of city’s last great characters.

I WOULD like to add my own condemnation of the demolition of Fr Mathew’s Chapel on Blackamore Lane (Irish Examiner, Thursday, October 21).