The time-honoured place for a summer’s day out is the beach. Whatever the weather, you can always build a sand castle, says Robert Hume. Bucketloads of people have been doing so for generations.

The husband of a woman missing since March 20 says she took thousands of euro in cash with her when she disappeared, but he doesn’t believe she has run off with another man.

A new regulatory framework for water safety at Irish swimming pools is to be implemented following the death of a three-year-old boy last year.

CCTV footage revealed the final movements of Ronan Kennedy, aged three years and ten months, at the Quality Hotel in Youghal, Co Cork.

Seafarers, beach lovers and families looking for a detached coastal home under the €250,000 mark should train their radar on 1, Island View.

A father, whose three-year-old son drowned, was told the children using the hotel’s kids’ club should wait for armbands to be given out by staff, an inquest heard.

National Bus and Rail Union general secretary Dermot O’Leary says his union will do its “damnedest” to retain rural services should it be forced into industrial action .

A visually-impaired Cork woman hopes to claim a Guinness World record by becoming the first officially blind person to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.

A historic naval crest lay in Irish homes for over 60 years with the owners oblivious of its significance to Malta’s heritage.

Trish Dromey finds a gardener’s dream tucked away inside the historic thirteenth century core of Youghal.

Most octogenarians would have their feet up with a nice cup of tea in hand, but not husband and wife, Joe and Kay O’Regan, who held hands as they crossed the finish line of Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon.

For a buyer willing to put in the effort, No 2 Summer Villas should regain some seaside Victorian splendour. 

A self-styled vigilante was jailed yesterday for a bizarre incident where he armed himself with a knife and kicked in what he thought was the door of a heroin dealer’s home — but he got the wrong address.

Local man Pat Daly  speaking about the young man who is in a critical condition  and was airlifted from the local GAA pitch in Youghal, Co Cork, after a work place accident at the Youghal Commercial Park Marlhill Court.

Proud families gathered on the quayside yesterday to welcome home the crew of LÉ Niamh, who apart from rescuing migrants, assisted in the birth of one and the double resuscitation of an infant who nearly drowned.

Seafront properties built by the Victorians along the Front Strand have for a great many years been among the best places to live or stay in Youghal.

In publican speak, they’re the ‘lost generation’ — younger people who have forsaken the traditional pub for the nightclub or home-drinking, as well as the tens of thousands that have emigrated.

The beautiful work of a famous Youghal glassworks is on display at an exhibition at the Crawford in Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne

GLOBAL coffee giant, Starbucks, is to open its first Cork City centre store, at no 39 Princes Street, a few doors away from the famed English Market.

A specimen pollock was used to strike a Polish man in the head during a full-scale row over the relative merits of Irish and Polish dance music.

Davy Russell was yesterday fired as the number one rider to Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud.

This story has been subject to the following update on February 3, 2017: Following an appeal by Henry Gwyn-Jones the findings of the Employment Appeals Tribunal were overturned at Dungarvan Circuit Court on 17 December 2013.

The Gare St Lazare Players have brought their take on Moby Dick to its home town of New Bedford, says Gerry McCarthy

A MEMBER of the Irish Army who was permanently scarred after he was stabbed in the neck in Youghal has been compensated with €3,000 by his attacker.

A MAN arrested and released early one morning was still in a rage over a row with his brother-in-law and after his release kicked in his relative’s front door and stabbed him in the neck as he lay in bed.

A WELL-KNOWN building contractor died after a fall from scaffolding he’d erected for a maintenance job on a three-storey building in East Cork.

Dublin: Ian Martin has been elected to succeed Dr Aidan O’Boyle as the chairman of the Small Firms Association.

A YOUNG soldier is fighting for his life after being attacked in the smoking room of a pub.

A YOUNG soldier is fighting for his life after being attacked in the smoking room of a pub.

UNREASONABLE consumer pressure on the Irish hospitality sector to reduce prices could put many fine establishments out of business, renowned food writer Georgina Campbell has warned.

POSSIBLY the only building in the country where a procession of people waiting in line did not signify a dole queue, Cork’s newest retail store threw open its glass doors yesterday to the city’s starving fashionistas.

SCHOOL sports competitions face major disruption or even cancellation after a move to withdraw substitute teacher cover for staff bringing students to games.

THE Commercial Court is being “littered” with claims for specific performance of contracts, including many contracts for the sale of lands for development, a judge said yesterday.

THE owner of a holiday park pond in which a two-year-old baby drowned last summer has secured council backing for a fresh bid to have it filled in.

MOUNT JULIET, the popular golf and leisure resort, has been declared Best Hotel of the Year 2006 by a leading food and hospitality awards scheme.

THE Bandon-based SWS Group has reported good progress across its range of businesses in 2005.

A SERIAL rapist, who is serving life for the murder of a teenager, was left at large by police, prosecutors and the courts, according to a new documentary to be screened tonight.

THIS is the innocent woman who married the Irish serial rapist and child killer Robert Howard, who is suspected of killing up to seven women in Britain.

A religious order tonight admitted that it failed to notify the Gardaí about abuse allegations against a priest who carried out a “reign of terror” in Newbridge College.

Two witnesses have told a jury that they saw gardaí beat a school teacher friend with batons as he lay on the ground during the May Day 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration.

A FORMER Presidential candidate and founder of the Chernobyl Children’s Project will be cheering on her niece when she makes history by competing in the Rose of Tralee festival.

LOOKING poised and elegant in her lemon halter neck evening dress, the stunning Catrina Supple floated across the stage of the Pavilion Baltard last night, hoping to be the first Irish beauty to be crowned Miss Europe.