A planning application for the site's redevelopment is to be lodged this week.

One of the best-known family-owned shops in Cork city is to close its city centre outlet after 40-years in business, citing the challenge from online shopping and access issues.

In this year of significant commemorations, Dr Aodh Quinlivan of UCC’s Centre for Local and Regional Governance recalls the Cork Corporation elections of January 15, 1920, and the first meeting of the Corporation on January 30, at which the doomed Sinn Féin man became the city’s first citizen

Dublin City councillors have backed a plan to turn the old Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin into a centre for third-level education.

Those who wish to vote in the upcoming general election on February 8 must be registered by the close of business tomorrow.

The decision by Ms O'Sullivan brings to an end her 11-year career as a TD.

A public representative who was born in a mother and baby home won unanimous support from her colleagues to call on the government to buy the home rather than see it fall into the hands of private developers.

James McDermott confesses to having had a couple of sleepless nights last winter.

Boris Johnson has insisted progress is being made in Brexit talks with Brussels and the chances of an agreement have risen – but the European Union said a no-deal outcome remained a “distinct possibility”.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton has said that new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has only one perspective and that is to ensure that the Conservatives win the next election.

Gardaí in West Cork have appealed to the driver of a car involved in a hit and run that left a two year old boy with non-life threatening injuries to come forward

In 1999 I decided to leave Saudi Arabia after spending a few years working in Riyadh learning all about how to make a clean label gelato.

The first new office building to be constructed on Cork city’s South Mall in a generation is 35% more energy efficient than comparable buildings, constructed even up to just a decade ago.

The pull of Cork’s northside is strong - and that’s official.

Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street is 850m metres long.

Toto will play their classic mega-hit, and plenty more hits from their impressive repertoire, at the Marquee in Cork, writes Ed Power.

A deal ensuring flights between the UK and Switzerland continue post-Brexit is to be signed by the UK's Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.

Spend this midterm getting your spook on, with Ciara McDonnell’s pick of the best events taking place on Halloween week.

From Best Takeaway Pizza to Best Spicebag, the ‘steaks’ were high at last night's Just Eat National Takeaway Awards.

You get one striking measure of just how far Graham Burke has come in a relatively short space of time when you ask him where he was the last time Ireland played Wales in Cardiff, that night in October of last year when James McClean scored the goal which put Martin O’Neill’s men through to the World Cup play-offs.

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Women placed in industrial schools and Magdalene laundries speak out about their experiences.

The controversial afternoon car ban on Cork's main street has been suspended until August 9.

A woman who claims she slipped on an alleged grease like substance in the food hall of Marks & Spencer in Dublin’s city centre has sued in the High Court.

Los Angeles isn’t just about movie stars and the Oscars, writes Sara Benson.

From past times to exciting times, Esther N McCarthy wraps up some must-have gifts.

All the local ghosts and ghouls are out for Halloween celebrations in Cork.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is "bitterly disappointed" by a US Department of Commerce decision to impose a tariff of nearly 220% on a new model of passenger jet manufactured by Bombardier, one of the North's biggest employers, Downing Street said.

Survivors of Magdalene laundries, and their relatives, have relived the horrors of rape, abuse and lost lives as they renewed calls for a memorial and full redress.

Latest: White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired after less than 10 days in the post.

A High Court judge has approved a plan which will see Charlie Gard "inevitably" die shortly after being moved to a hospice and having life-support treatment withdrawn.

Latest: Charlie Gard's mother yelled in anguish as a High Court judge set a timetable for the end of the terminally-ill baby's life.

The parents of baby Finn put their faith in the doctors at Temple Street after they learnt their boy’s skull would be disfigured without surgery, writes Jen Hogan.

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You heard them before you saw them.

The family of a Limerick politician, who died last year while canvassing with Fianna Fáil's Willie O'Dea, has appealed for the return of a plaque stolen 24 hours before it was to be unveiled in his memory.

Esther N McCarthy plumps for luxurious mohair and lifelike art work in this week’s interior picks.

THREE retail-based Cork city investments, worth a combined €3 million-plus and each promising a yield of c.8.25% come to the open market this week with Cushman & Wakefield, pitched at private investors, and to those in search of pension income.