Three of Cork’s most ‘Outstanding People of the Year’ were honoured at an awards ceremony in the Vienna Woods Hotel last night.

The Jameson Experience in east Cork and the team behind UCC’s year-long George Boole celebrations were among those honoured last night for helping to generate more than €10m in conference and tourism business in Cork this year.

A touring health author who held a series of talks in Ireland last week has been accused of promoting banned substances that claim to prevent cancer.

Three women seeking wages they claim are owed to them by a rape crisis centre will have to wait to find out if they’re successful because the name of their employer was incorrectly stated on a decision issued by a Rights Commissioner.

Sugar industry revivalists Beet Ireland are set to unveil the site which they intend will house Ireland’s first sugar factory since the industry imploded seven years ago.

In a further escalation in their dispute with Garda management, rank-and-file members of the force have taken an unprecedented vote to bar their commissioner, Martin Callinan, and other members of Garda management from the forthcoming annual general meeting of the Garda Representative Association (GRA).

A Cork psychotherapist is set to join world-renowned self-help gurus like Susan Jeffers and Eckhart Tolle on the bookshelves.

The first in a series of nationwide meetings aimed at tackling suicide is to take place in Cork tonight.

A former psychiatric nurse is hoping a series of nationwide workshops can provide the Government with the necessary tools to reduce a needless average suicide death rate of 500.

De boys are on to something massive, like. And the translation for those of you unfamiliar with Cork slang is: These young entrepreneurs have developed an idea that is going to be really quite successful.

THE Health Service Executive has stepped in to help pay for a cancer patient’s life-saving surgery in the US.

LADIES Football President Pat Quill is targeting attendances of 50,000 at their All-Ireland finals within the next decade.

GAA president Christy Cooney has expressed satisfaction at the decline in the number of cases heading to the Disputes Resolution Authority.

MONEY cannot buy you everything. Like many Cork people, Ireland’s newest millionaires, the Cunningham family of Farranree, were yesterday hoping for the Rebel County’s hurlers to beat Waterford and claim an All-Ireland semi-final place.

CASH-RICH Celtic Tiger cubs will be purring this weekend when a fleet of top-of-the-range Porsches roar into Cork for an invite-only sales exhibition.

A CONSTRUCTION company, which at its height employed upwards of 100 people, has gone into receivership with debts of nearly €3.5 million.

GARDAÍ are to question a number of people involved in the controversial Liberty pyramid system following formal complaints from investors who lost money in the €20 million scheme.

The Alliance for Insurance Reform (AIR) will be a series of free seminar series to help business people get the most from their insurance cover in Cork tomorrow evening.

THE big event of the spring in Cork is Federation Day.