Michael McCormack, FDC Group, Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr Tony Fitzgerald, Dick Hodgins, Chairman Cork City Sports, Kelly Proper, Irish long jump champion, Frank Walley, President Cork City Sports, and Safann MacCarthy, Spar Marketing Manager, at the launch of the Cork City Sports, at the City Hall.

Karen Underwood and Linda Kenny with dancer Colette Healy (right) as they take a trip on the 'Sea Safari' RIB through Cork's dockland waterways as the 'Summer at the Half Moon Theatre' season was announced.

Environment Minister John Gormley has refused to meet with concerned members of Cobh Town and Cork County Council after National Cancer Registry figures showed the East Cork town has experienced a 44% higher cancer rate then the national average in recent years.

Final preparations are underway for this year's ACCBank Cork Week which will take place at the Royal Yacht Club in Crosshaven from July 12 to July 18.

Figures released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund which showed that significant numbers of people in Cork were awaiting surgery may be skewered by the fact that large numbers of patients have been offered surgery through the scheme, but, have rejected or ignored the offer.

Cork's biggest GAA supporter Cyril 'The Sombrero Man' Kavanagh is being held hostage by O2 Ireland and is currently being held captive in 'Cork GAA Hell' in the window of the O2 Experience Store on Patrick St, Cork.

Munster and Ireland Heineken Cup winning outhalf, Ronan O'Gara pictured with pupils from St Columba's Girls National School, Cork.

Cork 96 FM Radiothon Team pictured at the Mercy University Hospital.

Forest Fairies from Celtic Mythology Leah Comiskey, Aoife Gorden and Anna Talty at the Cork Chamber Midsummer Ball, sponsored by Musgrave Group.

A private Members Bill proposed by Cork Green Party TD Dan Boyle along with his party colleague Deidre DeBurca and Senator David Norris looks set to see a ban on the practice of psycho-surgery in Ireland, better know as the lobotomy procedure.