Legendary publican Brian O’Donnell of the Hi-B bar was yesterday given a fitting send-off by his family and a large gathering of friends who came together on a cold and cloudless day to remember a man as warm and as wildly eccentric as the city itself.

The Cork architect Kevin Smyth has proposed a radical tree-planting programme for the main streets of his city.

Cork’s love affair with dining out, music, and coffee is driving a retail expansion throughout the city and suburbs.

Breast cancer survivors are preparing to launch a fundraising calendar, similar to the famous ‘Calendar Girls,’ and one of the participants is a man.

Shares in UK high street retailer Debenhams,which has 16 stores in the Republic and the North, plunged over 10% as it confirmed it was considering “longer-term options”, including possible further store closures.

Park the St Patrick’s St car ban and give us back our city.

Yesterday morning was like any other Friday for Charlie’s, the early house on Union Quay.

Business leaders in Cork have given City Hall two weeks to iron out teething problems with the new St Patrick St car ban.

Four women who stole €4,777 worth of clothes from Penneys in Cork were so laden with bags that one of them asked for the help of a shop assistant to carry the stolen property out of the shop.

A father of three proposed to his love of 14 years in a novel way over Christmas, enlisting the help of Santa and the elves at a branch of Dunnes Stores in Cork.

It’s a pub with a counter almost as long as its history, a meeting place that has become as synonymous with the festive season as carol singing, traffic congestion, and mince pies.

“God be with the days when people had manners around the town,” a solicitor declared yesterday in defence of a man involved in a fracas outside Abrakebabra on St Patrick St in Cork.

A serial shoplifter, who was convicted yesterday of carrying out more than 30 thefts, declared from the dock at his sentencing hearing: “I ain’t very good at shoplifting, am I?”

A taxi driver was robbed of the purse around her neck after driving a man from Cork City to a dark laneway in Buttevant, North Cork.

Global 21st-century tech giant Facebook, along with Chinese firm Huawei and US cyber security company Alien Vault, are to keep company with a repolished Cork pearl, the 18th century-founded Oyster Tavern, as the line-up for the city centre’s €50m Capitol shops, office and bar development is confirmed.

As a gay person, Brian O’Flynn left Ireland aged 18 in search of a new life and a more accepting society, but  after the yes vote in May 2015, he says home has finally become home

A pioneering Cork-based initiative to cater for autistic and disabled shoppers has gone national after similar schemes were adopted by major retailers across the country — and even by a supermarket in the UK.

As a child, Noel Campion loved art but a lack of funds meant he never got to finish his degree course. As he got older art became something he associated with his youth — that is until he discovered the Apple app, Procreate, on his iPad.

Anyone who has been through Dublin in the past couple of months will be keenly aware of the infrastructural squeeze that is taking place as the economy rebounds.

After lighting up hurling and football pitches across the country in his heyday, GAA legend Jimmy Barry Murphy used his magical touch to switch on the Christmas lights in Cork City last night.

Two appeals to An Bord Pleanála will delay the start of the €50m regeneration of the derelict former Capitol cinema site in Cork City by at least four months.

Cork’s city planners have sought ministerial approval for the major extension of a tax break scheme designed to promote regeneration and city living, and to include the city’s main shopping and office districts.

The number of retail premises lying vacant fell considerably in the opening months of the year as a slight pick-up in sales growth enticed retailers back onto the country’s main streets.

Major traffic restrictions will be in operation on Bank Holiday Monday as more than 9,000 competitors take to the streets in the annual Cork City Marathon.

Hundreds of people turned out in Togher, Cork City, as world champion walker Robert Heffernan was treated to another, more low-key homecoming last night.

There were tears of disappointment in Cork yesterday where The X Factor organisers were forced to turn away a third of those who turned up to audition for the hit talent show after demand far exceeded expectations.

THERE was an increase in the number of premises closed temporarily due to problems with food safety last month.

“COCK-UP” read the underside of the Rebel fan’s sombrero, where in normal circumstances it would have read “Up Cork”.