Aisling O’Riordan is involved in various arts and entertainment events around Cork, including this weekend’s It Takes a Village festival in Trabolgan, as festival manager. Weekend passes and Sunday day tickets are still available for ITAV. Aisling also DJs and plays in the bands Morning Veils and Hex.

As Herbert gets ready to bring his grooves to Trabolgan, he tells Don O’Mahony about his anti-Brexit project and happy memories of previous visits to Cork.

He was the musical legend who gave it all up to drive a taxi.

Now that the line-up for Electric Picnic has been released, it’s time to finalise your plans for a busy season of music events, writes Ed Power.

Our Arts Editor selects his highlights of the year...

Jim X Comet has been involved in music in Cork for the past four decades. He played with such bands as Belsonic Sound and the Dancing Bastards From Hell, as well as managing the Comet Records shop.

Des O’Driscoll shares his suggestions for the week ahead

Tommy Barker visits a recently-refreshed home in the lovely East Cork village of Whitegate.

A teenager who suffered life-changing neck injuries in a fall while taking photos of the snow is expected to be transferred to Dublin for specialist treatment.

Des O’Driscoll meets Joe Kelly, one of the organisers of It Takes A Village music weekender in Trabolgan

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

Two Cork festivals have promised dance, rock, spoken word, and more as they unveil the latest additions to their line-ups.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

As part of our running series, Eoghan O’Sullivan selects his 2017 highlights from the world of arts and culture.

Pool parties, popular music and literary pursuits are all on the agenda for Munster’s first ever live-in weekender which is being launched later today.

Mark your diaries. From festivals to rainy day actitivies, Ciara McDonnell has rounded up 20 ways to keep the kids amused this summer

On the eve of what would have been Princess Diana’s 56th birthday, Ryle Dwyer reveals her hidden Irish connections.

An Post has just launched a new stamp to celebrate the founding of Lions Clubs International and it features the images of two Cork people, one of whom is a former Gaelic football great.

A boil water notice affecting some 10,000 people across vast swathes of east Cork since February could be lifted within days.

A new year, but sadly, the same old story for homes and businesses threatened by flooding in parts of Cork.

Work on a €2.5m interpretive centre in the middle of Cork Harbour could get under way as early as September and be completed in time for the start of the 2016 tourist season.

The team which identified the Irish tomb of Princess Diana’s great-great grandfather plans to open the graveyard to visitors as a part of a new, historic graves project.

It’s one of the simple joys of childhood — enjoying a swing in the playground.

Location: Guileen, East Cork, €230,000

A graveyard restoration project in Cork has uncovered the ancient burial tomb of a direct ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

A tourism start-up hascombined quick response codes and treasure hunts to create 10 jobs in Cork.

From crafts to cookery along with culture, craic, and ceol — that’s what the Ring of Cork has to offer.

With great food, a fine beach and plenty to do, Esther N McCarthy enjoyed her stay at Garryvoe Hotel

A businessman has agreed to orders requiring him to repay Bank of Ireland €16m over unpaid loans issued for property development and other purposes.

Up to €35m annually and around 190 jobs could be generated from Cork County Council’s plan to transform Spike Island into a tourist attraction

Most parents would recoil in horror at the thoughts of backpacking by train with two toddlers in tow but Rory Fitzgerald found it a cheap and fun way to see Europe.

Spectacularly sited tillage land by the mouth of Cork harbour, within a few hundred yards of Roches Point lighthouse, is for sale for half a million euro.

Barely dismounted from Cheltenham, some of the racing world’s top jockeys are now set to brave Youghal’s main street.

ROLL up, ladies and gentlemen, roll up! Ringmaster Michael O’Leary here, willing and able to answer your questions about my incredible flying machines, the Ryanair cheapo flights.

THOSE into fitness and scenery can combine both by taking part in a cycling event at the Burren in County Clare on Saturday next (June 19).

Trabolgan Holiday Village, the family holiday destination in east Cork, has seen a surge in bookings as recent disruption to air travel drives demand for Irish holidays.

MICK Fitzgerald admits he was lucky to retire in one piece after calling time on his near 20-year career yesterday.

TIDE movement on Cork harbour would mean that any potential chemical waste from the former Irish Steel plant is effectively swirled around the harbour.

Nicky Henderson has admitted that there are some “dangerous” times ahead for Trabolgan as he plots his return to the racecourse.

LIFE may begin at 66, especially now with the new Senior Smart Pass allowing free travel to, from and all around Northern Ireland.