More additions to student accommodation provision in Cork are to be made after permission has been granted for a development with over 200 bed spaces near the city centre.

A city rising, in places, but crumbling to the point of collapse in others.

Despite the fact work has not yet started on the events venue, the key players insist the project will eventually reach fruition, writes Eoin English

AT the start of George Orwell’s magnificent novel 1984, its anti-hero Winston Smith hears the loudspeakers drone that Oceania is at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.

In our continuing series where readers get to grill senior politicians on issues of the day, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan, jumps into the hot seat.

WHEN I was a child growing up in suburban Galway in the late 1970s and early 1980s, disposing of our waste was a relatively simple matter.

NEVER in the history of mankind has so little been learned about so much by so many. The Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis was like a sort of Pinocchio-fest.

One of Ireland’s best-known broadcasters, Newstalk's Pat Kenny and his wife, Kathy, have lost out in their battle against plans for apartment and housing development on a site adjacent to their Dalkey home.

Prices are on the rise, but North Cork still offers good value for money, writes Helen Kelleher.