A fundraising drive has been launched for an East Cork teenager diagnosed with a rare cancer, writes CHRIS DUNNE

THE company behind the planned conversion of the old Square Deal building on Washington Street into student apartments have described the plan as a "landmark development in the city centre.

In the latest part of our series marking 125 years of the Evening Echo, CARA O’DOHERTY sees a copy of the paper a century ago

Ahead of Cork Craft Month, Siubhán McCarthy talks about her family, her love of cooking and Cork’s craft co-op

In his weekly column Michael Patwell looks back at Christmas traditions past and present

So many things have changed beyond all recognition from his young days, says Michael Pattwell

As part of our new feature series on Cork chefs doing new and exciting things, Kate Ryan talks to the Perry sisters, of The Glebe Gardens in Baltimore, who are embarking on a new chapter

Writer Deirdre Collins, who penned our latest Summer Soap story which is serialised in the Evening Echo from Monday, tells CHRIS DUNNE about her muse and why she tackled the issue of homelessness

Rough Magic is touring Arthur Riordan’s adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at the Everyman on October 22, 23 and 24.

Singer, songwriter, performer, producer and film-maker, Charlie Winston is among those performing a gig in Cork city tonight. 

Inspired by design weeks in Milan and London, Cork architect Amy McKeogh brings Design POP to the city in May. KATE RYAN caught up with the UCC graduate to find out what it’s all about

THE story so far… Cork are on the road again, after a breakdown in Páirc Uí Chaoimh but Limerick have pulled over with a puncture in the Gaelic Grounds. Clare are burning oil after their trip to Walsh Park, but nothing a good service won’t fix.

Last Sunday, Mary Tyner, 55, was whizzing round The Curragh on horseback. She tells CHRIS DUNNE about her charity challenge

In a new series ‘Cork’s Café Culture’ KATE RYAN talks to some of the city and county's newest café owners and discovers creating a sense of community is just as important as serving up good food.

A stint in Australia inspired Ballincollig native Sarah Cotter and her husband Eoin to open up a café on her return to Leeside, writes KATE RYAN in the latest feature in her Café Culture series

Ahead of the official opening of the new Enable Ireland centre in Curraheen next week, LIZ O’BRIEN talks to Gavin Lowen who has used their services for 11 years

Three weeks in, Cork woman Tanya Carroll is inspiring a nation on Operation Transformation. CHRIS DUNNE catches up with her

The night in December, 1955, when Cork Opera House burned down, is etched forever in the memory of many older citizens. Less well known is the fact its predecessor, the Theatre Royal, also burned down 180 years ago this month. And, PAT POLAND reveals, the finger of suspicion fell on a chancer supreme

MUNSTER created history when they defeated the All-Blacks in 1978 in front of an ecstatic crowd of around 12,000 who witnessed an epic victory for the provincial side.

Who remembers Dennis The Menace, The Bash Street Kids and Dan Dare? Jo Kerrigan flicks through comics of old