As a graduate who has been unemployed for over two and a half years, I think It’s great to see developments like One Albert Quay being constructed in Cork.

The full political and economic consequences of the Greek referendum have yet to unfold. However, the speed and efficiency with which the referendum was held, was truly remarkable.

Now the marriage equality referendum is over, would it be too much to ask that politicians and the media get back to real life and real issues?

Last Friday was World Mental Health Day. On the previous Friday, you published an article on mental illness, by Mr Paul Gilligan, CEO of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, entitled “Stigma of mental illness unfair and crude”.

As a city-dweller, I think it’s long past time we ended the urban/rural divide on suicide and other major social issues.

I am a native of Cork who walked to the Model School, Anglesea Street, for eight years. There would sometimes be a small flood in White Street and a little on Georges Quay.

Plans have been drawn up to make part of Cork City safer by night in an effort to prevent a repeat of a horror attack which led to a Spaniard being hospitalised.

A Spaniard who had 21 staples inserted in a head wound after a vicious and unprovoked attack by a gang of youths in Cork has said he has no intention of leaving this country.

The Spanish man brutally beaten with a golf club in Cork City was reunited with his young son yesterday after being released from hospital.

Investigations are ongoing after a Spanish man was attacked with a golf club in Cork city when he refused to hand over cigarettes or his mobile phone to a gang of youths.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a man in his late thirties was attacked with a golf club in Cork city last night.

A Spanish man is being treated in hospital after he was beaten with a golf club in Cork overnight.

HERE’S a tale of two cities, and two men, and how the more things change, the more often they stay the same.

NOW that the Irish soccer team has qualified for Euro 2012, we can look forward to great times next summer.

IT seems Social Protection Minister Eamon O Cuiv and the Green Party have finally discovered the long sought-after panacea for unemployment – force people to work for their social welfare payment.

WILL the Irish media please stop using the term PIIGS?

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

THEY bared all for art but were fully clothed yesterday as they collected souvenir copies of the photographs taken by world-renowned American artist Spencer Tunick in Cork last year.

OPENING officially next Tuesday is a new social housing scheme by Clúid.

CORK could become the creative capital of the country through a planned art and design quarter, graduating students heard yesterday.

THE decision by Cork city manager Joe Gavin to make a city centre site available at a nominal charge for the development of a centre for architecture and design is a key investment in the future of third-level education in the city and region.

A MAJOR expansion of family support services in the South was announced yesterday as President Mary McAleese opened a regional headquarters for children’s charity Barnardos in Cork.

I have two questions for Minister McDowell:

HERE’S an on-going quiet revolution off Cork city’s Douglas Street, with millions of euro flowing in property investment.

FORTY three new Cork city houses aimed at qualifying ‘affordable’ category buyers are to be offered early in the New Year, bringing cheer to some lucky buyers.

IT was a case yesterday of Cork city’s Central Fire Station revisited for President Mary McAleese.