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€50m spend will transform Cork's Metropole Hotel

A €50 million spend on 400 hotel bedrooms is heralded for one of Cork city’s oldest hotels, The Metropole, to include extension and refurbishment, the provision of a retail arcade, and a new adjoining hotel to be called the ‘M’, in a scheme likely to take three to five years to deliver.

Thu, 08 Jun, 2017

Close call as phone stops bullet

A mobile phone saved a Florida gas station worker from a robber’s bullet.

Tue, 29 Oct, 2013

Steele: ‘I waited for Saoirse to get older for role’

Producer Charles Steel revealed he had been waiting since 2007 for then 12-year-old Irish actress Saoirse Ronan to grow up to give her the starring role in an adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s novel How I Live Now.

Thu, 12 Sep, 2013

Gardens in sky planned for September 11 site

A PLAN calling for soaring “gardens in the sky” and a submerged memorial was unveiled yesterday for the World Trade Center site, but wrangling between leaseholders, politicians and September 11 victims’ relatives will ultimately decide what fills the space.

Fri, 28 Feb, 2003