A bus driver was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving in Cork City yesterday.

With wonderful wildlife on its doorstep and close proximity to the city centre, Westbourne Terrace has much to offer, writes Tommy Barker

A CORK city house that has been a life-saving, holistic home-from-home for many hundreds of persons given cancer diagnoses now looks set to return to private, family accommodation and ‘domestic service’ once more.

The Ryans could never have imagined just how big a part UCC would play in their lifelong romance.

Generations have walked over it and soon it will have a name, as University College Cork (UCC) today plans to brand the historic bridge at its ceremonial gate as the Alumni Bridge.

More homeless people will die unless the Government increases its efforts to tackle the crisis, a frontline charity worker has warned.

More than 600,000 native trees are to be planted across 1,500 hectares of bogland that is no longer used for peat production.

Cyclists must have greater input into the design of cycling infrastructure, Cork's city councillors have said after getting first-hand experience of life in the bike lanes.

Refurbished B&B sat idle because of funds dispute

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.

HAVING a little time to spare on a visit to Cork last week, a walk into the UCC campus from the Western Road side was an enticing option. The freshly-greening trees were the magnet, surely one of the best views the college has to offer.

The charity spoke out in the wake of the eviction into homelessness of a young mother, Stephanie, and her three children from the Cork city home she had been renting for nine years.

Ireland and Malta will be the only EU countries that drive on the left-hand side after Britain departs the bloc in October, writes Fergus Finlay

Gardaí investigating two assaults in Clonmel, Co Tipperary yesterday have arrested a man in his 30s.

A man grabbed the woman and attempted to drag her into a car in Clonmel.

With all new year resolutions parked and maybe some broken at this early stage, I noticed a few sporting suggestions and commitments for the future in the 2019 list of to dos. All positive in presentation and thought, but practical in results?

The long-anticipated sale by Nama of €300m in property portfolio loans, associated with a number of O’Callaghan Properties (OCP) assets in Cork, has been welcomed by the company itself as “very positive” and could bring fresh and further investor activity to the city.

The unprecedented growth of student accommodation in Cork City over the past two years has raised concerns.

Tommy Barker gives this old schoolmaster’s house in Clonakilty an ‘A’ grade for a class upgrade

Olivia Kelleher rounds up the start times for the parades in Cork and further afield. 

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.

WHAT’s the collective noun for multiple medics? A delivery of doctors, or an outbreak of obstetricians? A coven of consultants? Can any location get closer to the action than bustling College Road itself?

A man whose mother died while sleeping rough in Cork last year says he is now on the verge of ending up on the streets with his pregnant girlfriend.

It may not have looked it yesterday as people across West Cork surveyed the fallout from Hurricane Ophelia, but the area might have escaped the worst of the damage.

A step-down facility for the homeless, which has been unused for more than a decade, could be open within six weeks if State funding is sanctioned.

The 30-year-old woman who died in a tent while sleeping rough in Cork was a “very decent girl” who had fallen on hard times, according to the head of a local homeless charity.

Waterford woman Teresa Deevy was acclaimed as one of the nation’s best playwrights. So why has she faded from memory, asks Marjorie Brennan

The route of the first Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon to be staged on a Sunday has been tweaked to avoid clashing with morning Masses.

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Tommy Barker takes a look at a renovated property close to Cork city centre, which has old world charm and attractive design

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.

More than 400 students could get to live in purpose-built Cork City centre accommodation as part of revisions to the long-awaited events centre.

Dan McCarthy speaks to the people taking over at the new An Oige hostel as it moves to Wellington Road.

Work begins today on a €15m one-stop shop for most student services in an extension to one of University College Cork’s oldest buildings.

It’s almost a pub quiz question for Cork’s version of University Challenge: for two marks, when was the fabled Western Star Pub demolished.