THE Bishop of Cork and Ross has launched a scathing attack on an exhibition, due to open in UCC today, for portraying the Virgin Mary in an“offensive” way.

IT WAS supposed to be a small academic conference at University College Cork (UCC) with four guest speakers exploring various aspects of Chicano, or Mexican American culture.

A CONTROVERSIAL art exhibit at UCC has sparked outrage even before it is opened.

-1954: Tony Walsh is born.

John Fitzgibbon’s father, Vincie, told me something once in Cloyne when I was a young fella.

Irish attitudes to towards our lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender sons or daughters, brothers or sisters, friends, uncles or aunts and other relatives and neighbours have changed dramatically, and very much for the better, since homosexuality was decriminalised in 1993, the year those celebrating their 21st birthday this year were born.

A CHEF clutching a cluster of small copper saucepans is part of the promotion for the new four-part series about the Shelbourne Hotel being broadcast by RTÉ.

Amid the Beyonce ‘gap’ controversy Suzanne Harrington throws a wobbly and offers the F-word to fat shamers.

Aodhán Ó Riordáin tweeted a pictured of his office door this morning, after it was sprayed with curry and vandalised with the words "scum" and "traitors".

With a gay marriage referendum due in spring, are gay quarters a relic of the past? asks Kay Cairns

Cosmopolitan now has a guide to sex positions for lesbians. Have celebrities like Michelle Rodriguez helped a new generation to ‘come out’? Paula Burns reports.

WE don’t get out as much as we should. Not that you would know it from the notions we have.

I reached maximum ice-pop consumption during the heatwave, writes Lindsay Woods.

ACTOR and playwright Karen Cogan is revisiting her roots in Drip Feed, her self-scripted one-woman show set in Cork’s gay scene in 1998.

In the words of the Jonathan Van Ness, can you believe?

Ed Power rounds up the best non-World Cup activities to help keep you sane while everyone else dons their soccer pundit hat and becomes an offside rule expert.

If you would rather watch anything other than football for the month of June, here's everything new and return on Netflix.

The stars from the Netflix hit show, known collectively as the Fab Five, visited the small town of Yass down under and hit it off with locals.

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WALKING into the room where the gentlemen of Queer Eye are hanging out is an onslaught. If that doesn’t sound like fun, then let me assure you that it really is, writes Laura Harding.