Almost 15 new property millionaires were created every week in Ireland last year as the average value of a house surged almost €100,000 in five years, a new report shows.

A man facing charges of turning up armed with knives to cause damage at a neighbour’s house in November committed the same crimes last Wednesday night, it was alleged yesterday, as he applied to be released on bail.

Plans for Ireland's first supervised drug injecting centre have hit a stumbling block after Dublin City Council decided it needs planning permission.

Several sites in Cork City have been identified as possible locations for a supervised drug injecting room ahead of the introduction of the first facility of its kind in Ireland in Dublin next year.

Plans for Ireland’s first floating hotel may have to be put on hold after an objection was lodged against planning permission for a river cruiser on Cork’s River Lee.

Selfies taken by a motorist led to his prosecution on multiple counts of dangerous driving after he took off at speed from gardaí through red lights in Cork City.

Selfies taken by a motorist led directly to his prosecution on multiple counts of dangerous driving after he took off at speed from gardaí through red lights in Cork city.

From paving the way for peace in Northern Ireland to spearheading the growth of a tea empire, former tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Peter Barry was a man of many parts, a classic blend if you like, which helped make him one of those rare politicians to win respect across the political divide.

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A man dressed in full military attire, including ceremonial feathers in his cap, flagged down a Garda car at Wellington Rd in Cork to announce that he was a member of the French Foreign Legion who had lost his way.

Two tourists visiting Cork were mugged by a local man who held a knife to the throat of one of the victims.

An influential LA producer praised Cork’s film industry yesterday, as the Cork Screen Commission (CSC) unveiled plans to entice projects south, away from studios in Dublin and Wicklow.

VINTAGE clothing has come of age. Something, perhaps, to do with the fact that all previously-loved clothes have a back story.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien is fighting a bid by Revenue to overturn a decision that he was not liable to pay nearly €57m in tax in Ireland around the same time he started living in Portugal.

The former Marymount hospice is to be given a new lease of life as an education campus, including a residential English language centre.

They’re as much a part of a Cork Christmas as spiced beef or the crib at the Lough.

One of the country’s best-known hospices issued a warning last night about bogus collectors using its name for door-to-door collections.

Marymount Hospice in Cork is under “huge pressures” in terms of admissions as it has been unable to open the extra 20 beds planned for it due to the recession.

The resolution of an accommodation crisis at a fee-paying Cork school has been welcomed by parents after a building in temporary use has become available again for classes.

Classes began for some students at a fee-paying school in Cork yesterday as efforts to resolve its accommodation crisis continued.

Gardaí believe the house fire which claimed the life of a 22-year-old man in Cork City yesterday started accidentally.

The oldest resident of one of the country’s most advanced hospice and hospital facilities helped the President officially open the €54m complex yesterday.

A fly-on-the-wall documentary is to take a look behind the scenes at the country’s oldest hospice in Cork city prior to its move to new premises.