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Phone home: capturing Cork city's last remaining phone boxes
Like post boxes, phone boxes were once ubiquitous. This summer, artist Ciara Rodgers captured the last battered and graffitied phone boxes still…
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City Council watch: crime, punishment and electioneering
City councillors were back in chambers last night, and some of them are clearly in electioneering mode. Also, a new chief exec is on the way and HP is…
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JJ O'Donoghue
The Friday View 06/09
A plan to make Douglas Street great again, Miracle of Sound gains members, Cork City Council's monthly meeting returns next Monday and there's…
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JJ O'Donoghue
Cork city's parklet experiment: five years on
Some parklets, like the original one on Douglas Street are a beloved fixture in the community. Others, like the one that was outside The Imperial Hotel…
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JJ O'Donoghue
In pics: The boys are back in town
Guess who just got back to town? Olympic gold medallists Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan returned to Skibbereen to a hero's welcome yesterday…
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Noel Sweeney

August 2024

The Friday View 30/09
☀️Culture Night 2024 programme is out, Naked Bike Ride causes a belated stir, and John Spillane's new album—a paean to The Lough—is on the way. Welcome…
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JJ O'Donoghue
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Kilian McCann
The performer's pitch
Cormac Mohally, artistic director of Pitch’d Circus and Street Arts Festival, talks to T+D about a life in performance, why you should see…
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Pádraig O' Connor
🌥️The Friday View 23/08
Election leaflets are arriving in your letterbox whether you want them or not, we've had a change of heart about the (non) Event Centre, and there’s a…
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JJ O'Donoghue
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Kilian McCann
When Nell McCafferty lived on Evergreen Street
Journalist, playwright, and activist Nell McCafferty died at the age of 80 in Donegal today, August 21. For a time, she lived in a terraced house on…
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JJ O'Donoghue
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Cork on screen
Being a full-time filmmaker in Cork city is neither easy nor particularly lucrative, but Benjamin Rupprecht is giving it a go. He’s also organised a…
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Pádraig O' Connor
The Friday View 16/08
☀️And we're back! So too is the summer weather for the next few minutes. We have a bumper edition in this week's FV - let's get to it!
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JJ O'Donoghue
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Kilian McCann
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City Council refuses retention permission for Shelbourne Bar's “excessive” awning
Cork City Council ruled the pub's awning disrupts the historic street's character, obstructs views of The Everyman Theatre, and exceeds its original…
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JJ O'Donoghue
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