Paddys of all ages donned the patron saint’s costume and marched through Cork city today to celebrate the restoration of the city’s landmark St Patrick’s Bridge.

Cork’s newest bridge looks set to be named after a woman thanks to the public after four leading female historical figures were included on a five-name shortlist.

Cork’s landmark St Patrick’s Bridge is to close to traffic for resurfacing for two weekends in a row later this month as part of its €1.2m restoration.

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An unexpected consequence of this summer’s drought, and some of the fires caused by it was the exposure of the imprint of human habitations lost to history.

The man convicted of murdering the mother of his child ‘lost control and exploded’ over fears she had cheated on him. Liam Heylin followed the case.

A visitor to Cork City witnessed the man accused of murdering his girlfriend catching her by the throat and shouting at her in Cork City on Saturday afternoon before she was found dead early on Sunday morning in a squat.

Drunken revellers know it well but Cork city’s much- loved Berwick Fountain on Grand Parade is getting a facelift.

ONE of Cork city’s finest period homes, time-wrapped and time warped Lotabeg House, on 36 acres in Tivoli, has finally come to market two years after a hugely publicised auction of its contents that attracted 7,000 viewers to the property, over three days.

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Planning permission is being sought to install new street lights, inspired by Cork’s historic tram system, on the city’s landmark St Patrick’s Bridge as part of a €1.2m refurbishment project.

THE imminent sale of the Elysian tower development to an as-yet unconfirmed international fund, with 217 fully let apartments and commercial units at what’s understood to be a 5% return, may see a snowball effect of REITs and funds interested in Cork city’s multi-family unit sector.

Heritage campaigners have called for an engineering rethink following confirmation that repairs to Cork’s iconic Shakey bridge will dampen its signature shake.

There have been calls for an urgent health-and-safety audit of Cork’s iconic Shakey Bridge amid fears it could be one shake from collapse.

There have been calls for an urgent health-and-safety audit of Cork’s iconic Shakey Bridge amid fears it could be one shake from collapse.

Cork City Council has advertised for contractors to “rehabilitate” the bridge’s four cast-iron lamp standards and lanterns, and four others which are in storage.

There have been calls to name Cork’s newest bridge after a woman, and for the public to have a say.

Plans for a pedestrian and cycle bridge in Cork City, which is being part-funded by the EU, have gone on public display.

CORK CITY has a long and occasionally fraught relationship with the River Lee. 

Des O’Sullivan takes a look at the forthcoming auction of furniture and art at Lynes and Lynes in Co Cork.

 

Although dwarfed in scale by its grandly sized neighbours this mews conversion comes with lots of quirky charm, writes Tommy Barker.

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.

Renovation work and affordability draws the players, Trish Dromey finds.

Safety mesh has been installed along a stretch of exposed quayside in Cork city centre where a toddler fell into the River Lee.

Photographs revealing the savagery of the Chinese army under Yuan Shikai, the first president of the Republic of China, have generated significant international interest in the auction of the contents of “time capsule” Lotabeg House in Cork.

The house contents of Lotabeg — a time capsule of long-hidden antique delights — will be auctioned by Mealy’s in Cork next month.

THE banners are up along Cork city’s St Patrick’s Street for today’s St Patrick’s Day parade — and, selling agents DTZ Sherry FitzGerald have just this week managed to snake in a large ‘Sold’ sign on a high-profile building on this retail thoroughfare which bears the saint’s name.

Casting a ghostly glow along the north channel of the River Lee, a fleet of small boats set sail at precisely 7.30pm last night, slid slowly along the riverbank walls alongside the Mercy Hospital and set off on a brief yet poignant journey towards Custom House Quay.

Suzanne Harrington returns home with a boyfriend who has never visited Cork and finds there have been many changes over the years to a city which has embraced the new but hung on to the best parts of the old.

Hundreds of thousands of euro have been invested in cycle lanes and in Cork another €2m has been invested in the Coca Cola bike scheme. But why do potholes still abound, asks Caroline Delaney.

I used to have a photograph — now sadly mislaid — of my mother striding out across St Patrick’s Bridge in Cork with my brother in the push chair. That picture would now be around 70 years old.

AGENTS Lisney bring a second Patrick Street, Cork City, retail building for sale this month as an investment, seeking offers of €750,000 for No 121, opposite the Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre and Marks & Spencers.

Two former Cork City sites, associated with boom-time purchases involving Oyster Developments, are being brought to market by Savills.

Cork has topped a list of under-rated cities that tourists should see in their lifetime.

A NEW sales and letting pitch is to be tried at Cork’s City Square development — the pitch is ‘space for free.’

The Irish Examiner has opened its vast photographic archive for a festive exhibition which offers a glimpse of Christmas past in Cork.

Gardaí in Cork are appealing for witnesses to a street fight in the city, which they believe led to the death of a 36-year-old.