Renowned soprano Cara O’Sullivan has been presented with the inaugural Cork Culture Award.

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Elaine Howley is a singer with the Altered Hours, one of the acts playing weekend festival It Takes A Village (April 13-15) in Trabolgan, Co Cork. She is from Tipperary Town, writes Des O’Driscoll

The rivalry between two Cork schools, Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers, has been well documented. The disputes and battle for bragging writes in an ongoing battle for supremacy will continue beyond today’s Munster Senior Cup semi-final.

Heritage campaigners have called for an engineering rethink following confirmation that repairs to Cork’s iconic Shakey bridge will dampen its signature shake.

There have been calls for an urgent health-and-safety audit of Cork’s iconic Shakey Bridge amid fears it could be one shake from collapse.

There have been calls for an urgent health-and-safety audit of Cork’s iconic Shakey Bridge amid fears it could be one shake from collapse.

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Kerry County Council has been slammed for undertaking work at a holy well, a recorded monument, which some locals believe may be the site of the original crystal fountain associated with the Rose of Tralee.

Parishioners attending a picturesque Cork church have less than two weeks left to stop it becoming the first in the city to be forced to close due to a lack of vocations.

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There’s an appeal to home hunters either end of a long spectrum, at the end of a short terrace, at Cork city’s Shanakiel suburb by the 1870’s Gothic revival church St Mary’s.

HOUSES — and, especially, those in cities — don’t get much calmer than the Victorian gem at 9 Fernhurst Terrace, on Cork city’s College Road: it just exudes relaxation.

Sunday’s Well, Cork city €325,000

This Cork period home has a pretty perch — with precious parking space aplenty, writes Tommy Barker.

The 5,500 sq ft Woodlawn, a modernised Georgian up in Sunday’s Well, may be unrivalled in decorative quality and finish. It’s yours for €3.8m.

Sq m: 370 (4,000 sq ft)

Staff at a centre for school dropouts which faces possible closure due to a lack of funding have launched a petition in a bid to convince the Department of Education to save it.

Descendants of workouse and County Home residents buried in unmarked graves in a west Cork cemetery took part in a solemn procession to mark the return of a sacred symbol yesterday.

A centre for early school-leavers which faces possible closure unless it secures extra funding has revealed it is turning away a growing number of referrals.

There have been calls for urgent action to improve the condition of Cork’s landmark Daly’s Bridge — known to generations as the Shaky Bridge.

The Good Shepherd Order has added another name to a headstone for a mass Magdalene grave, more than a quarter of a century after the woman’s death.

THERE are inmates of the Irish prison system who have been incarcerated for most of their lives.

Cork-born doctor Madoline O’Connell (nee Horgan), who was apprenticed to the discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming, in Harefield Hospital in Britain during the second world war, died last month.

Paul Carberry will be reunited with Monbeg Dude in tomorrow’s Betfred Grand National Trial after a merry-go-round of jockey bookings for Haydock’s big race.

The vandalised Magdalene grave at Sunday’s Well contains the names of just 30 women who died between 1882 and 1983.

Asbestos has been found in the ruins of a former convent gutted by fire.

The most interesting horse on view at Cork this afternoon has to be Willie Mullins’ Pique Sous, who makes his debut over jumps in the Family Day Out Maiden Hurdle.

A pristine, 200-year-old Georgian in an enclave on Cork’s Sunday’s Well has been lovingly restored by the vendors, says Tommy Barker

THERE hasn’t been as varied exploration of the River Lee since St Finbarr came down from Gougane Barra in the seventh century and founded the city of Cork.

Possibly the cheapest detached house to come on the market in Sunday’s Well for a while, this sun-trap home needs a strong hand to bring back to a good standard, writes Tommy Barker

Bus Éireann has today outlined alterations to services in Cork during royal visit this Friday, May 20.

AN AMBITIOUS tourism strategy will use Cork’s renowned food culture and its 23 annual festivals to tempt an extra one million visitors to Leeside.

PRESENTER, politician, President – that’s the abridged version of Pat Cox’s CV. The former PD member who became a TD and then ran as an independent MEP ended up as President of the European Parliament for three terms.

THERE’s value to be had for trader-uppers in Waterfall, Co Cork, where a big dormer, on a large site, is on offer at €475,000 through Global Properties.

THEY made €1 million to €1.5 million during the boom — depending on site size and condition — and one sales asking price even breached €2 million.

YOUNG MUNSTER claimed the Limerick Charity Cup for the first time in 13 years with a dogged 11-10 win over UL Bohemian at Thomond Park on Saturday.

AIB CUP FIRST ROUND: Saturday, September 26