Bonfires on Bonna night in north Cork city this week.

Michael Flatley, Sir John Major and Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds at the Freedom of the City ceremony last Friday at City Hall.

Cork Independent columnist, Neil Prendeville, with the help of Trish Murphy, Stephanie Mohally and Victoria Hudson launches the Co-Co's reunion party night to be held in the Victoria Hotel Cork on Saturday, July 5.

The Cork Institute of Technology has hit back angrily at the Cork School of Music Concerned Parents Group for running what it perceives to be a campaign of misinformation concerning budgetary cutbacks at the facility.

The Minister for Health Mary Harney was expected to face tough questions about breast cancer services in Cork in the Dáil last night (Wednesday, June 18).

The Christian Brother's College in Cork is one of 96 schools across the country which is to be officially handed over to an independent trust.

Funding of more than €1 million is to be given to 191 projects in Cork to enhance school library facilities, parent rooms and small scale equipment grants for youth groups.

IMPACT trade union has agreed to enter high level negotiations on the issues raised in its health service industrial dispute on behalf of health workers in Cork and across the country.

There has been a mixed reaction to the decision by the Boundary Commission Review Board too increase seats in the South Wards.

Frank O'Sullivan as 'Paddy' in Corcadorca's production of The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill, which is being performed from June 25 as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, in the Old Southern Fruit Warehouse, Centre Park Road, Cork.