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Friday 28 February 2020

CORK NEWS - LIVE

John Grant concert announced for Cork this summer

Grant will perform some new songs from his new LP, Love Is Magic, as well as older favourites for the Cork audience.

A view of the proposed new 25-storey JCD Group residential development on the Carey's Tool Hire and former Sextant bar site.

Sextant skyscraper in Cork gets go-ahead

Suspended sentence and road ban for Cork man who drove at Garda twice

A guard of honour outside St Mary’s on the Hill Church in Knocknaheeny yesterday after the funeral Mass for Kimberly O’Connor, who died in a car crash last week.

‘The room lit up with your smile and infectious laugh’: Devastation as Kimberly laid to rest

DENIS SCANNELL

Hotel at Blarney Golf Resort, Co, Cork.
Picture: Denis Scannell

Blarney Hotel 'unlikely to reopen under current owners'

The fake alert at CIT comes as fears grow that the outbreak, which is appearing in new countries on a daily basis at the moment, will reach Ireland.

Pictured: Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a bus garage in Seoul.

(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Fake coronavirus alert sent to Cork students’ emails

Gurranabraher Garda Station

Man jailed for punching Cork garda in the jaw

Gardaí responding to residents’ concerns about anti-social behaviour targeted activities in Farranree. Stock image.

Anti-social behaviour patrols nab man with €10k of cannabis in Farranree

Before and after image of the flood defences for Orchard Court in Blackpool. Credit: Ryan Hanley Consulting Engineers; McCarthy, Keville, O'Sullivan.

Objections to Blackpool Flood Relief scheme

Firefighters used High Pressure airbags, stabilisation blocks and ratchet straps to free the casualty and paramedics rendered medical assistance before the woman was taken to the hospital.

Pic: Cork City Fire Brigade

Tree surgeon injured in Garravach woods taken to hospital

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CORK SPORT - LIVE

Skibbereen Community School celebrate with the cup following the Basketball Ireland All-Ireland Schools U16 C Boys League final at the National Basketball Arena. Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Cork basketball: Skibbereen Community School seal a league and cup double

Skibbereen Community School 60 De La Salle, Churchtown 33

Emma Tobin of Virginia College in action against Laura O'Sullivan of Blarney. Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Cork basketball: Heartache for Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal, Blarney after a thriller

Cork City head coach Neale Fenn applauds the supporters at Turner's Cross. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

Cork City needs the fans out in force for crucial clash with Finn Harps

Limerick's Cian Lynch in action against Cork's Robert Downey in last weekend's Allianz Hurling League tie at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Picture: INPHO/Ken Sutton

The Paudie Palmer column: Beware the hurling snob who sneers at football

The Turner's Cross faithful at a Cork City game in glorious sunshine. Picture: Brian Lougheed

Local soccer leagues are set to oppose any sale of Turner’s Cross even if Cork City takeover goes through

National Sport Live

Celtic knocked out of Europa League by FC Copenhagen's late goals

27.02.2020 22:07

Late extra-time goal knocks Arsenal out of Europa League

27.02.2020 22:05

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CORK LIVES

A cozy Aran sweater made by Ursula McGrath. Picture: Jorg Koster

Cork woman's Aran sweaters for dogs will feature in the New York St Patrick's Day parade

Forget Gucci — these poochy designs by a Cork woman are set to take the dogwalks of New York by storm, reveals MARY HASSETT

CORK LIVES

A cozy Aran sweater made by Ursula McGrath. Picture: Jorg Koster

Cork woman's Aran sweaters for dogs will feature in the New York St Patrick's Day parade

Forget Gucci — these poochy designs by a Cork woman are set to take the dogwalks of New York by storm, reveals MARY HASSETT

David Creedon

Frank Dowling. Picture: David Creedon / Anzenberger

Corkman: I was put on end-of-life medication 5 years ago

Richard Jordan at his new business premises for Amari in Drawbridge Street, Cork city. BELOW: Douglas Shopping Centre ablaze

How this Cork businessman bounced back from Douglas fire trauma

Seamus Harrington and his family at their home in Meath, which looks like three separate barns from the outside. It features in episode one of Home Of The Year.

Search begins for the finest home in Ireland... will Cork feature?

Alison Roberts of Clonakilty Chocolate, with Kuapa Women in New Koforidua-Ghana. Photo: Cindy Kingston

Do you know where your chocolate bar really comes from?

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CORK VIEWS

OPINION

HOUSEWIFE STEREOTYPE: A movement calling itself ‘Trad Wives’ is a throwback to an outdated, sexist mindset, says Colette Sheridan

Colette Sheridan: The worrying trend of 'Trad Wives'...

The Trad Wives movement is a throwback to the stultifying and suffocating days when women were chattels, owned by their husbands, so says Colette Sheridan

OPINION

HOUSEWIFE STEREOTYPE: A movement calling itself ‘Trad Wives’ is a throwback to an outdated, sexist mindset, says Colette Sheridan

Colette Sheridan: The worrying trend of 'Trad Wives'...

The Trad Wives movement is a throwback to the stultifying and suffocating days when women were chattels, owned by their husbands, so says Colette Sheridan

ONE VOICE: Young people are increasinglytaking a stand on climate change

Cork city school in stand on climate change

"Power and control is the essence of domestic violence and when a woman is pregnant, her partner can feel like he is losing some of that control which can lead to difficulties in the relationship."

A place of safety for pregnant women suffering abuse

A police officer wearing a mask on the Canary Island of Tenerife, where a tourist hotel has been placed in quarantine after an Italian doctor tested positive for the coronavirus. (AP Photo)

Any chance of you cracking on with a new government, politicians - before coronavirus puts us on lockdown?

SKY-HIGH POLLUTOR: A return flight to New York emits roughly the same CO2 as a year’s driving, yet airlines don’t pay any fuel tax

Kathriona Devereux: I’m going on a ‘flight diet’, just one a year: Are you on board?

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Nostalgia

A unit of the 4th Infantry Battalion at the time of their record-breaking march in 1944, including Comdt Mick Gill - note gas masks on their chests

Quick march, into the record books: The night Cork soldiers made history

In 1944, a Cork battalion marched 42 miles in just short of 12 hours... with a full, 40 lb battle kit on their backs. TERENCE O’REILLY takes up the remarkable story

Temple Utd double winners, FAI Cup finalists 1987. Top: F Hoare, F Ricken, C Coffey, B Coleman, G Ambrose, M Ambrose. Middle: A Fielding, M Hurley, S Walsh, M O’Sullivan, A Horgan, A Ring, G Manning, J Ricken. Front: P Coleman, D Devereaux, G Butler, D Hussey, A Ricken, D Luxford, D Keane, A Ryan. Nostalgia 5

Nostalgia: Cork's Temple United were the top junior side in 1985

HISTORIC SPEECH: A portrait of Bishop John Gregg in Bishop’s House in Cork. Hewas Bishop of Cork from 1862 to 1878 and is mainly remembered for overseeing the building of Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral.

Marking 150 years since vital event for Church of Ireland

A Clonmult Ambush anniversary procession passing through Main Street, Midleton, in February, 1935 - 14 years after the tragedy

99 years on, recalling the tragedy of Clonmult

Michael Hawkins (Irish coach) Pat McCrory (Irish team manager) and Albie Murphy (Irish coach) at Seoul Olympics 1988

The Seoul Olympics of 1988 was a huge one for Cork and Irish boxing

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WOW

REBEL NUN: Sr Stan is not afraid to speak up.

Sr Stan: You have to keep going and do the best you can

Outspoken nun, Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, a tireless campaigner, would like to see priests marry, but doesn’t expect there’ll be female priests in her lifetime. COLETTE SHERIDAN talks to the woman who supported the marriage equality campaign and is hugely outspoken on successive governments’ failures to tackle the housing crisis.

“There needs to be more public awareness of the extent of and the impact of domestic violence against pregnant women." Picture: Stock

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Grant will perform some new songs from his new LP, Love Is Magic, as well as older favourites for the Cork audience.

Skibbereen Community School 60 De La Salle, Churchtown 33

Forget Gucci — these poochy designs by a Cork woman are set to take the dogwalks of New York by storm, reveals MARY HASSETT

Forget Gucci — these poochy designs by a Cork woman are set to take the dogwalks of New York by storm, reveals MARY HASSETT

The Trad Wives movement is a throwback to the stultifying and suffocating days when women were chattels, owned by their husbands, so says Colette Sheridan

The Trad Wives movement is a throwback to the stultifying and suffocating days when women were chattels, owned by their husbands, so says Colette Sheridan

In 1944, a Cork battalion marched 42 miles in just short of 12 hours... with a full, 40 lb battle kit on their backs. TERENCE O’REILLY takes up the remarkable story

Former Republic of Ireland striker and Sunderland Chair Niall Quinn will be among the guests on the Late Late Show tomorrow.