Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Cork County Council say an 8km bypass of Macroom in Co Cork that has opened today will have a transformative effect on the town and on the Cork and Kerry region.

It seems like old hat now, a music festival, but when the first major gathering of music stars arrived to perform in Macroom, County Cork, it changed for ever how music would be enjoyed countrywide.

Among those to notice the early benefits is one of the longest campaigners for it, businessman and undertaker Martin Fitzgerald, who remembers meeting Macroom Town Council and Cork County Council ...

The longest precast concrete bridge beams in Ireland and Britain have been placed over a river at Macroom in County Cork, as part of a €280m project to bypass the town.

The vast personal archive of Ireland’s “golden-voiced soprano”, Rita Lynch, has been donated to Cork’s city and county archives. Dawn Bradfield is from Kilmurry, near Macroom, Co Cork, and ...

Around 45% of all Ireland’s rivers are under threat from human activities; ... Behind a quiet housing estate in Macroom, County Cork, there’s a tree-lined walkway along the Sullane river.

A woman escaped from the house fire in St Colman's Park, Macroom, by jumping from an upstairs window Two men have died following an overnight house fire in County Cork in the Republic of Ireland ...

IT’S three years since Eileen Lynch from Dripsey was elected to Cork County Council - and this week marked a red letter day for the Fine Gael woman when she was elected unopposed as the new ...

From the last stone mill in Ireland, Macroom's oatmeal is radically better, I think, than any other oatmeal on the market. It's been a standard on the breakfast menu at Ballymaloe House since they ...

That global and local economies are intimately connected in today's world has rarely been so shockingly demonstrated as in the closure of the General Semi-Conductor Ireland factory in Macroom, Co ...