A business seed planted 135 years ago on Cork city’s South Mall still sees a family-owned firm sowing and reaping.

Cork city’s Clancy’s bar is set to rise again, in time for its 195th birthday, part of a c€3.5/€4m total investment by its new consortium of owners.

A councillor accused of blacking out Queen Victoria-related street names in Cork has applied to have his case heard in Irish - this application will be heard at the High Court in Dublin next month.

An applied maths graduate caught with five deals of heroin last year was caught on another occasion stealing ice cream.

Breast cancer survivors are preparing to launch a fundraising calendar, similar to the famous ‘Calendar Girls,’ and one of the participants is a man.

The application by a councillor to have his case heard in Irish will be heard at the High Court in Dublin on December 13.

A major development of high-rise student accommodation has been given the go-ahead in Cork.

Over 600 student beds in Cork and 700-plus in Dublin, are being provided in a progressive €200 million-plus joint venture partnership by global players Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, and Global Student Accommodation Group, GSA - who’ll trade in Dublin and Cork under the brand Uninest.

Facebook has lodged planning documents to facilitate its use of The Capitol offices development in the centre of Cork city.

Former lord mayor Des Cahill may be called to give evidence in the case against a man accused of blacking out streets names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria.

The District Court judge dealing with the case against a councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Queen Victoria told him to go to the High Court if he wanted to raise the issue of having a judge fluent in Irish for the case.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

A proposed new UCC student accommodation building — the 255-bed development at Victoria Cross — is set to rise to eight and up 10 storeys, across four linked blocks, on the former western suburban site of the Crow’s Nest bar.

The investigation into the blacking out of street signs named after Britain’s Queen Victoria resulted in a councillor and two other men being charged at Cork District Court yesterday.

Plans for a spate of student apartments could strangle traditional residential areas of Cork City.

A TRIO of terraced 1890s-built villa buildings, facing the UCC campus and main entry gates on Cork city’s Western Road is up for sale in one lot for €2.35 million, pitched for student accommodation, residential, offices or academic/medical-related uses, with possible further development to rear.

A controversial bus lane has been retained as part of a €4m upgrade plan for one of Cork City’s busiest access routes, despite pleas from residents to scrap it.

Irish street name campaigners who defaced several ‘Victoria’ road signs in Cork City have been accused of attacking the city’s heritage.

Plunkett Carter tells of the remarkable story of how Fordsons upset the odds in 1926 to become the first Cork team to win the FAI Cup trophy.

Tommy Barker reports on what is a market rarity theses days — a selection of new builds.

The most recent resale at The Crescent, off Cork’s Farranlea Road, was to private/family buyers, but that was for a version of this novel, contemporary crescent-shaped terrace of three storey homes which had an added-on ground floor room that made it even more suitable for smallies.

Work has started on the demolition of the former Crow's Nest bar and restaurant at Victoria Cross, Cork.

Site clearance works could start within weeks on a Camden Quay office building of 72,000 sq ft, and which could have a transformative impact on an old Cork city centre area less than 100m from St Patrick Street.

One of the closest, purpose-built student accommodation blocks to Cork Institute of Technology in the western suburbs has been put up for sale, guiding at €1.2 million.

This picture from the Irish Examiner photographic archive relates to a camogie game reported in the Cork Examiner on March 25, 1916.

A planning application for a student apartment complex in one of Cork’s flood-risk zones has been lodged which the backer say will help ease the city’s chronic student bed shortage.

Homeowners and businesses across Cork were yesterday recovering from Storm Frank’s fallout — and bracing themselves for further hardship.

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.

A PEARL of a riverside Cork site, between the gates of UCC and the city centre, is for sale for €2.5m.

Cork City Council is awaiting further information from developers of the proposed reworking for residential use of a former bakery site in Togher.

Munster’s property market has kicked off the new year with an €18m apartment complex sale in Cork City, bought by UCC, along with a €1.35m coastal house sale in West Cork.

Boxing: Boxing history will be made in Cork on Thursday night when the New York Fire Department enter the ring in Ireland for the first time.

A setting near Cork’s UCC and several hospitals, as well as sports fields, helps to pitch the home Porres, at the corner of off-radar Linaro Avenue, to family home hunters.

Demand for booze-free housing in University College Cork has increased this year, leading to a major expansion of a student wellbeing programme.