The family-friendly parade will mix red-hot jazz bands with fiery Cork characters who will dance through the city streets in a dramatic musical procession.

Each week, Denise O'Donoghue profiles one of the runners taking part in the ‘Irish Examiner’ Cork City marathon this June

Fashion and homeware retailer Laura Ashley is to leave its long-held Cork city centre shop on St Patrick’s Street, after 30 years trading there at the Merchants Quay Shopping Centre: it is moving instead to suburban retail park.

Esther N McCarthy picks po-faced pandas, pretty prints and shiny spoons this week.

A WELL-SET St Patrick Street Cork city retail investment directly opposite the completed and fully occupied Capitol mixed use development, which is let to Boots Chemists and earning a current annual income of €540,000 is for sale, guiding €5.75 million.

WITH plans afoot for the €70m-plus investment property sale of the ‘old’ Roches Stores/Debenhams Cork’s store by the publicity-shy Roche family, the arrival of a neighbouring niche investment with a more modest €1.5m price tag has impeccable timing, and opportunity.

Hot on the heels of the circa €4m investment sale of the former Pavilion retail unit on Cork city’s prime shopping thoroughfare, St Patrick’s Street, comes another section of the 1921-built ex-cinema.

First South Africa, then the Rockefeller Centre, New York – and, now Cork is about to be hit by Rain.

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.

Bank of Ireland chief Richie Boucher says the bank’s policy of promoting fixed-rate mortgages ahead of cutting variable rate home loans will not change for the moment, regardless of competitors’ decisions and political pressure.

Site clearance works could start within weeks on a Camden Quay office building of 72,000 sq ft, and which could have a transformative impact on an old Cork city centre area less than 100m from St Patrick Street.

The historic Victoria Hotel on Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street has been sold, 18 month after it went to market for sale by tender.

Global consulting engineering company, Arup, is to move into new Cork City offices, at One Albert Quay, in time for its 70th anniversary.

There’s a touch of the exotic to this 1850 sunny property in St Luke’s Cross, writes Tommy Barker.

A COMMERCIAL site in the centre of Cork City that has been derelict for more than a decade is set for a multi-million euro investment and retail development. 

TOMORROW is the tender date for the sale of Cork City’s Victoria Hotel on St Patrick’s Street and Cook Street, with well over a half dozen parties expected to make offers on the historic 33-bed city hotel.

One of Cork city’s oldest hotels, the Victoria Hotel on St Patrick Street, is for sale by tender in April.

City officials have been asked to introduce designated alcohol-free zones across the city centre for Cork’s St Patrick’s Day festival.

CCTV captured a man throwing his hands up in celebration and shouting “three knockouts” after he punched three men in the face in an unprovoked attack in Cork City centre.

James Joyce once posed a conundrum: how to get from one end of Dublin to the other without passing a pub. Most people who took up the challenge failed happily.

Cars will be banned from Cork's Patrick Street, while MacCurtain Street will revert back to a two-way system under new plans by the city council, today's Evening Echo reports.

The bank holiday weekend produced a higher number of arrests for public order offences in Cork City than a normal weekend, a senior garda has said.

City officials have ruled out a proposal to allow the Vita Cortex workers lead Cork’s St Patrick’s Day parade.

LATE-NIGHT revellers are being offered transport home to several satellite towns in Cork in a new initiative.

Bus Éireann has today outlined alterations to services in Cork during royal visit this Friday, May 20.

DUNNES Stores’ right-hand man Dan Barrett has occupied all of the hot seats.

PART of a €80,000 haul of jewellery stolen from a shop in county Cork has been seized by police in Germany.

THE house market might have been on the floor in 2010 — but, if it was, the commercial end of the business was in the basement by comparison and, unlike the stamp duty break given to the residential market in Budget 2011, it still has a high tax rate on transactions.

A UNIQUE 19th century map showing the rich history of one of Cork city’s newest shopping precincts was unveiled yesterday.

DEVELOPER Owen O’Callaghan is to seek planning permission this week for a €210 million office-led scheme on Cork city’s quays, and has promised an even more significant further office development in a year’s time.

Criminals no longer need to pick our pockets to rob us — they’re doing it electronically. Consumer correspondent Paul Kelly reports.

THE Bodega Bar in Cork city has been bought by developer Owen O’Callaghan, in a €7 million swoop, and is set to be redeveloped as a shop.

A 79-YEAR-OLD woman was killed in a horrific accident yesterday when she was crushed underneath a lorry.

PARENTS of children preyed upon by paedophile James Lombard reacted angrily yesterday when he was jailed for just five years despite sexually assaulting 16 youngsters.

Tommy Barker views a property that offers the best of both worlds.

SITES for new shops are being assembled quietly on and off Grand Parade in Cork.

IRELAND’S largest ever fireworks display has been cleared to take place in Cork city in just over a week.

TRADERS hit by Cork’s worst flood since 1962 launched a blistering attack on the city council yesterday.

A PROPOSAL to open a pub for Travellers has been abandoned after the Traveller Visibility Group deemed it discriminatory.

IF fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges then the River Lee’s latest addition can only add to the spectacle.