Ryanair has announced further cuts to their flights to/from and within Italy due to the continued spread of coronavirus.

Irish tourism is facing more uncertainty after the US issued warnings about travel to parts of Italy and the French authorities closed the Louvre Museum in Paris over concerns for its staff catching the coronavirus from the hundreds of people streaming through its doors.

Ireland and other EU countries have been told to be on alert for possible cases of the coronavirus.

The Extinction Rebellion group in Ireland is attracting growing numbers to its events and counters criticism by emphasising it is on the side of the people, writes Joyce Fegan

It’s that time of the year again when tourism industry people look to the 2020 horizon, cogitating on what the 12 months ahead holds for Ireland.

Combined impacts of sea-level rise, intensification of maritime transport, depletion of coastal ecosystems and deep-sea mining are the theme of a new exhibition planned for the Italian city of Venice which aims to change the dialogue about ocean environments.

I wonder if children had a choice, would they prefer if we got our act together to tackle climate change or bought them an array of presents from a bumper toy store, asks Joyce Fegan

Venice and Cork, as we have been reminded this month, are cities facing a common threat. Last week’s high tide inundation left 80% of Venice under water; by sheer good luck, this week, Cork city centre was spared devastating deluges.

An engineering expert who helped advise the Italian government on flood defences in Venice insists that the river Lee dams can protect Cork from river flooding without the need for "high walls".

Research throws light on how other countries managed the transition of their declining energy industries to meet climate change targets, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Save Cork City’s plan is to build a tidal barrier now... instead of waiting for the sea to claim the city, writes Victoria White

There is real value and potential in small towns as future sustainable communities argue Free Market's Tara Kennedy and Laurence Lord

For those involved in the film industry, November is the great “in-between” month — the annual period between possibility and promise.

Despite Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s weekend bullishness when he said that a record 2.3m people are at work and that the unemployment rate stands at 5% and continues to fall, today’s budget, one of the tightly choreographed melodramas of the political year, might be described as a cross between one of Venice’s masked balls and a dull episode of a TV blind date exploitation fest.

Cork city set to spill some secrets over the weekend.

We must develop a reputation for the quality of our produce but also offer tourists the opportunity to be actively involved in the food experience, says Samantha Morris

Kya deLongchamps says current lighting trends wink back to Scandinavian and Italian classics.

The Ketchup Pizza?

Neil Delamere in conversation with Richard Fitzpatrick.

God be with the days when we knew our place, vis-à-vis tourists.

Noah Smith In 1953, mountaineers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed summiting of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak.

Earlier this week, protestors in Majorca stepped up their opposition to mass tourism by vandalising rented cars.

A former Lord Mayor of Dublin and a leading environmentalist believe the introduction of a tourist tax in the city would benefit the entire country.

If you were at a wedding in the last few years, chances are that you were served prosecco.

Kya deLongchamps is mesmerised by early French glass paperweights

University College Cork researchers have unearthed some 200 volumes of centuries-old newsletters that shine a light on 16th and 17th-century life in Europe.

Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed, Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives’ need.

Shane Cotter, a director at Architectural Farm, talks with Aileen Lee.

The French Riviera has been a major attraction since it first became the playground for the international jet set in the sixties and the Gulf of St Tropez is the jewel in its crown, writes Conor Power

In 1991, the Temple Bar Architectural Framework Plan was welcomed as a visionary approach to creating a new “cultural quarter” for Dublin in one of the most historic areas of the city.

A transatlantic flight made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport early today after a passenger was reported to have suffered a stroke.

A transatlantic flight was forced to divert to Shannon Airport this morning after the crew declared a medical emergency.

Cork has a second wind in its development sails, so it is perhaps salutary to look back to the last development surge, and the hopes and concerns just before the crash 12 years ago.

The Notre Dame fire has strengthened the argument in both economic and environmental terms of investing and looking after heritage buildings both here and abroad, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalisation, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialisation, development, and trade, writes Harold James.

The cost of transporting the Taoiseach and other ministers around the globe on the Government jet reached almost €1m last year at an average cost of over €18,600 per trip.

Many European cities share common problems, but because of cultural differences, they respond differently. Some ban or limit cars and make some streets pedestrian-only.

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