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THE 56th Corona Cork Film Festival was officially opened at Cork Opera House last night by arts minister Jimmy Deenihan.

With a saddlebag full of chocolate and a straw bonnet on the bould Neidín, The Menu is taking to the highways and byways once more.

Kilkenny City hasn’t been as badly affected by high-street vacancies as some other towns and cities but has seen a rise in the number of vacant commercial spaces, from 3.3% in early 2014 to 7.7% in the first quarter of this year.

More outlets are opening on the country’s prime shopping streets, writes Peter O’Dwyer

IN THE PAST few years, the Irish have taken to camping like never before.

From movies to music, fashion to food, our writers pick the cultural highlights of summer.

Food news with Joe McNamee.

A pair of old friends from Barcelona came to stay with us for a week in August, as they do every summer, welcoming Ireland’s breezy climate as a respite from the 40C heat endured throughout much of Spain.

A brewery in Cork is throwing open its doors tomorrow as part of heritage week and is proud to trumpet an unbroken record of employment within one family stretching back to the day it opened — 163 years ago.

Ambitious plans for a brewery and whiskey distillery outside Killarney, Co Kerry, are under appeal to Bord Pleanála on the grounds of “fire-water retention”.

Michael Fassbender relished the thought of donning a Stetson and wielding a six-gun for his new western, writes Susan Griffin

 

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One man has been beheaded and at least two have been injured in an attack on a factory in the south-east of France, Renault has recalled thousands of vehicles because of a problem with the braking system, there will be two more boxing finals with Irish involvement at the European Games in Baku. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

A Spanish visitor using the toilets at a fast-food outlet in Cork City had the cubicle door kicked in; A 15-year-old Killarney student has no place to live and yesterday went in to her Junior Cert geography exam knowing her family had no money for food; Nineteen people injured as a pick-up truck smashed into a cafe in Australia. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

A Junior Cert student and her family are living in a car in Killarney; Northern Ireland is ’on guard’ for an attempt to make a ’united British’ football team; and 17 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Peru bus fall. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

 

From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their picks for the year ahead.