Mary McCarthy, director of Crawford Art Gallery, picks her touchstones
Mary McCarthy, 55, grew up in Whitehall, near Skibbereen in West Cork. She has worked in commercial galleries…
When councils won’t act, communities turn to nature to get justice
Across rural Ireland, a shift has taken place in how local communities fight unauthorised quarrying. Instead of relying…
UCC pulls plug on €17m Cork city centre business school plan
A major plan by University College Cork (UCC) to develop a world-class business school on a city centre…
No culprit for the worst environmental disaster in Ireland this century
As the sun begins to fade in the west on Tuesday, the Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and…
The progress in other cities makes Cork look like a backwater
When I was growing up, I was told that Cork was the “real capital”. I now know that’s…