There’s more than first meets the eye at the early 1900s’-built 7 Frankfield View terrace, hidden away high up above Cork’s St Luke’s Cross finds Tommy Barker.

An energy drink producer has conceded it “regrets” parking several branded cars along a Cork city centre cycle lane for a promotional photograph.

One of Cork City’s busiest hotel and restaurant districts is bracing for disruption and water outages during a €20m Irish Water pipe replacement project.

It is hoped predicted Beast from the East-style low temperatures won’t have a detrimental impact on the St Patrick’s Day parades which get under way around the country tomorrow.

You could soon be walking in the footsteps of Cork’s favourite tracksuit-wearing teenage tearaways, Conor and Jock, if a former lord mayor has his way.

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.

A US tech and software company is expected to announce the creation of up to 100 jobs in Cork today.

 

 

One of the country’s most audacious school renovation projects has been recognised in this year’s RIAI architecture awards.

Cork school’s renaissance is a showcase for architectural excellence, writes Eoin English

We all know men love their motors but the action at yesterday’s Red Bull Soapbox Race proves a car doesn’t even need a motor for a man to fall in love.

AT Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, the objective is always to give every sick child every chance every time.

The Cork Civic Trust is poised to make an offer to buy a State-owned city property earmarked for a controversial step-down facility for ex-prisoners.

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.

This period-era, mid-terrace home is full of character and enjoys the elevated views from Cork City’s Richmond Hill, writes Tommy Barker.

There’s an education in convenient city-centre living to be had at No 1 Mount Verdon Terrace, an 1830’s end-terrace period home. 

Broadcaster and rugby pundit George Hook has agreed to line out as grand marshall for the St Patrick’s Dayparade in his native city.

 

heritage building on Cork city’s elegant North Mall which sold at auction to a co-operative housing group in 2008 for €1.36 million is back on the market, now guiding €425,000, after some further building conservation and conservation roofing work.

CORK CITY will have a new landmark design building later this year, in one of it most prominent settings - half way up the vertiginous St Patrick’s Hill. A school redevelopment there has been designed by the winners of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey.

Education Correspondent

IT’s moving out time today for school pupils at No 7 Sidney Place, Wellington Road, a mid-Georgian building high above Cork city - and now for sale, as the school departs its several levels.

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.

One of the most detailed digital images of Cork city’s iconic northern skyline is set to go on public display.

As revellers act the goat in Killorglin for the next few days, Kerry folk in the north of the county are today beginning to prepare for a huge barbecue feast — of rump steak, pig on a spit along with lamb, chicken, goat, pheasant and fresh fish.

Cork City Council has approved the use of a former hospital as a third-level college.

President Michael D Higgins said it was with “a great sense of humility and appreciation” that he had become the sixth Irish head of State to be bestowed with the Freedom of Cork City.

Victims of racism can tell their stories online at iReport, which records the number of incidents per region and raises awareness, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

It’s all downhill from here — Corkonians could be skiing and snowboarding down the country’s first publicly owned ski slope by next summer.

A former elite Irish Ranger is gearing up for his toughest challenge yet — cycling one of Ireland’s steepest hill 150 times in one go to help fund a vital operation for a brave little girl.

There was a new start for first-year students but also for staff as a Cork school moved to a temporary home in a former hospital.

The former Marymount hospice is to be given a new lease of life as an education campus, including a residential English language centre.

The former St Patrick’s Marymount Hospice on Wellington Road in Cork looks set to be taken over by Griffith College.

I’m not usually one for trading secrets with guys I want to beat in races, but here’s a confession.

Plans to develop a tourist attraction at one of Cork City’s most panoramic locations have been shelved.

It is the festive display to beat all others — Claire O’Sullivan goes behind the scenes at Brown Thomas Cork to see the Christmas window in the making.

To even walk up Cork’s steeply rising St Patrick’s Hill is an achievement in itself, but yesterday “ultra-cyclist” Donncha Cuttriss pedalled its length not just once but 100 times.

HOUSES in Cork’s Sidney Park are embedded in the city’s veins of sandstone, rising in serried ranks from the side of St Patrick’s Hill up towards the grounds of the former St Patrick’s Hospital. And top of the pile is Knockmahon.

IT’S that time of year again and the calendar is stuffed with delicious events.