The researching of Cork ancestors is being made easier through the online availability of records for the city’s biggest cemetery.

A shot was discharged from a sawn-off shotgun when a man who was threatening to shoot a woman tripped over her dog.

A ballistics report is being prepared in an investigation into the case against a Cork man charged with having a sawn-off shotgun following an alleged shooting incident and high-speed chase through 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.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has backed the calls of campaigners to make the vandalised mass grave of Magdalene women at Sunday’s Well accessible to the public.

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has called for the exhumation of the remains of Little Nellie — the “unofficial patron saint” of Cork — from a cemetery on lands controlled by receivers to allow people to pray at her grave.

Two recent incidents are instructive into how the memory of some lives are valued more than others in this country.

Imelda Keenan’s eldest brother got on his knees and begged for the return of his sister during a graveside ceremony in Co Laois yesterday.

The Good Shepherd Order has added another name to a headstone for a mass Magdalene grave, more than a quarter of a century after the woman’s death.

Round-the-clock surveillance cameras will be installed at four cemeteries across Cork City within weeks after a spate of vandal attacks.

A religious order which listed four Magdalene women as being buried in two different locations has amended the headstone.

A religious order has refused to offer any explanation as to why four women who died in its care are named as being buried in two different locations.

The gates of cemeteries in Cork City may be locked at night in a bid to prevent vandals from desecrating graves.

One of Cork’s best known market streets will host a huge festival celebrating the city’s heritage and music as part of this year’s heritage day event.

THE grief-stricken uncle of two little brothers who lost their lives following a fire told a requiem Mass heaven now has “two extra angels”.

CORK people will get the chance to step back in time tomorrow as many landmark and buildings around the city throw open their doors to show off their heritage – and it’s all free.

An Irish woman who died when the Titanic sank 98 years ago is finally getting a memorial stone on her US grave.

ONE of the great Irish textile industrialists, Richard Lord, has died. He was 93.

A CITY council is to introduce strict restrictions on the size of headstones in its cemeteries following the furore surrounding a huge monument erected to a well-known horse dealer.

ITCHY building fingers were behind Bydon Lodge some 14 years ago, and now the vendor has repeated — and excelled — himself again.