Cork (/ k ɔːr k /; Irish: Corcaigh [ˈkɔɾˠkɪɟ], from corcach, meaning "marsh") is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland.It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster.Following an extension to the city's boundary in 2019, its population is over 222,000.. The city centre is an island positioned between two ...

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest-circulation freesheet newspaper.It is published in tabloid format by DMG Media. The newspaper is distributed from Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays and the period between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day inclusive) mornings on trains and buses, and at railway/Underground stations, airports and hospitals across selected urban …

Cork began as a monastic settlement, founded by St Finbar in the sixth century. However the ancestor of the modern city was founded between 915 and 922, when Viking settlers established a trading community. The Viking leader Ottir Iarla is particularly associated with raiding and conquests in the province of Munster.The Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib connects this with the …

Presentation Brothers College (PBC Cork) (Irish: Coláiste na Toirbhirte; colloquially known as Pres) is a Catholic, boys, private fee-paying secondary school in Cork, Ireland.Presentation Brothers College is currently ranked as the number one boys secondary school in Ireland and regularly places first in the annual top performing schools table rankings conducted by The …

Migration eras Medieval. During the Dark Ages, significant Irish settlement of western Britain took place.The 'traditional' view is that Gaelic language and culture was brought to Scotland, probably in the 4th century, by settlers from Ireland, who founded the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata on Scotland's west coast. This is based mostly on medieval writings from the 9th and 10th …

Cork is the largest county in Ireland by land area, and the largest of Munster's six counties by population and area. At the last census in 2016, Cork city stood at 125,657. The population of the entire county is 542,868 making it the state's second-most populous county and the third-most populous county on the island of Ireland.. County Cork is located in the province of Munster, …

Fraser Gerard Forster (born 17 March 1988) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper in the Premier League and the England national team.He will join Tottenham Hotspur on 1 July 2022.. Forster started his career with Newcastle United and had brief loan spells with Stockport County and Bristol Rovers.He then spent a successful season on loan at Norwich …

Cork Independent – free Cork city- and county-based weekly newspaper; The Cork News – free Cork city based weekly newspaper, launched 18 September 2009; The Corkman (owned by Independent News and Media ) The Douglas Post – weekly magazine for Douglas, Cork ; The Echo (owned by The Irish Times) The Mallow Star (owned by VSO Publications)

Copenhagen (/ ˌ k oʊ p ən ˈ h eɪ ɡ ən,-ˈ h ɑː-/ KOH-pən-HAY-gən, -⁠ HAH-or / ˈ k oʊ p ən h eɪ ɡ ən,-h ɑː-/ KOH-pən-hay-gən, -⁠hah-.; Danish: København [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀn] ()) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.As of 1 January 2022, the city had a population of 805,402 (644,431 in Copenhagen Municipality, 103,608 in Frederiksberg Municipality, 42,723 in ...

In the 1990s, writers for the Daily Mail newspaper "called for Irish people to be banned from UK sporting events and fined for IRA disruption to public transport", one of numerous opinions expressed over many years which has led the Daily Mail to be accused by some in Ireland of publishing "some of the most virulently anti-Irish journalism in ...