A major design competition has been launched for the near €2m redevelopment of an historic park in the heart of Cork city.

Studios offering tattoos are mushrooming today, but there’s a long tradition behind decorating our bodies, says Robert Hume.

Poteen was blamed by a man for assaulting two other men who intervened when he was rowing with his partner on the street in the early hours of the morning.

If you know Cork, you know the Oval bar.

The scramble to find a home in the crisis-hit rental sector has led to people queuing to view a €900-a-month one-bedroom apartment on Cork's Tuckey Street.

In 1983, aged 21, I voted against the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution designed to ban abortion in Ireland. At the time, a crisis pregnancy was a very real possibility for me.

Day three of the Cork International Choral Festival sees plenty more exciting events happening across Cork City. Check out some of Friday's highlights here. 

A man was stabbed in Cork city centre last night, on Tuckey Street just off Grand Parade.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

A further €1m-plus Cork city bar and nightclub sale has just concluded, with the Bowery on Tuckey Street selling off-market: it comes just as Wetherspoons are poised to reopen a premises now standing them a total investment of as much as €3.5m, a bar investment level seemingly back to boom time values.

Farranree on the northside of Cork City, has been named the dirtiest location in the country on its first-ever appearance in the Irish Businesses Against Litter league.

Recently, two letter writers asked for respect for cyclists: surely those writers should acknowledge some cyclists are dangerous and should have respect for pedestrians.

DERELICT buildings and ill-kempt facades are an unfortunate feature of the Cork City visual experience.

The TV3 documentary, In the Name of the Republic, highlighted for a new generation the role of the late Martin Corry in the War of Independence.

Poet and librarian Thomas McCarthy celebrates a collection that recognises the social power and importance of libraries

After years of lank, flat styles, a simple but painless €400 procedure restored my tresses to former glory, says Aoife Dowling

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THE only answer to the recessionary blues is some rhythm and blues, with a bit of jazz thrown in for good measure.

IT can be a term of encouragement, or abuse, being told to stand up on your own two feet — but it is good advice for life. For a healthy one, especially.

NOTHING stands still: not time, not the ground we stand on, and certainly not a city.

A number of traffic restrictions will be in place in Cork City today, for the Queen's visit.

Gardaí have warned motorists and pedestrians in Cork that several areas of the city will be closed off ahead of the Queen's visit tomorrow.

UP to 40 jobs were created last night as Cork’s newest late night venue opened.

Forty jobs are being created with the opening of Cork’s newest late night venue, it was announced today.

ALL aboard. A special “hop-on hop-off” bus service will operate across Cork on Friday night to help people sample the city’s Culture Night celebrations.

THE Minister for Foreign Affairs has agreed to face what could be his toughest ever Questions and Answers session.

FLAMBOYANT wedding planner ‘Franc’ has been engaged to help attract Christmas shoppers to Cork city.

FROM whale-watching to historical re-enactments and from nighttime bat walks to lectures in stately homes, an impressive 1,000 events will take place across the country for Heritage Week, which will see a large number of historic buildings throw open their doors to the public, many for the first time.

CORK’S historic Grand Parade is to be transformed as part of a €10 million facelift.

CORK city’s infamous riverbanks will be the central focus of the largest outdoor event ever to be staged here when the city is officially unveiled as the 2005 European Capital of Culture on Saturday night.