Edel Green of Champion Sports with Munster Rugby player Denis Fogarty, Cork Hurler Kieran Murphy and Cork Footballer James Masters at the Launch of the 2008 Champion Sports Cork City Marathon at City Hall. Picture: Gerard McCarthy

West Cork fishing communities are bracing themselves for hundreds of job losses over the coming three months as a State compensation plan to cut a third of the Irish whitefish fleet gets underway.

IF you are one of the millions of people who claim to have kissed the famous Blarney stone then you might want to think twice before you continue to boast about achieving this feat.

JUST over one year after it first emerged that patients in Cork were waiting up to six months for results of routine smear tests and that there was a backlog of between 10,000 and 12,000 cervical smear tests in Cork, the HSE South has confirmed that these backlogs have now been cleared.

PHARMACISTS in Cork have again reiterated their serious concerns that new cost-cutting measures being introduced by the Health Service Executive on March 1, will have serious impacts on community pharmacies.

Over 10,000 passengers were affected by a 12 hour work stoppage at Cork Airport last night, Wednesday, February 20, resulting in changes to airline schedules before and after the allotted disruption time.

Arran from England on his micro clown bike, Teresa Arroniz, frm Spain and Franchesca from Italy at the Circus Festival Ireland workshops at the Mardyke Arena, Cork.

Picture: Provision

Mary and Larry Egan with family and friends at Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork, at the moment of touchdown during live screening of NASA Astronaut Dan Tani's return to Earth aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was shown.

Tani's wife Jane and parents-in-law Larry and Mary Egan are from Kinsale in Co. Cork.

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Members of the Kosovan community in Cork celebrate Kosovo's declaration of independence.