The Cork Independent is a free newspaper in Cork, Ireland.

The paper is published weekly and contains local news, health and beauty, business, opinion, social events, entertainment, motoring and property as well as input from a number of columnists.

[2] The Cork Independent is published by the IFN Group, which previously published the Galway Independent until the Galway Independent went into liquidation in September 2017.

[3] The newspaper has been published under the Cork Independent masthead since 2007, having previously operating under the name Inside Cork.

[4] The newspaper is printed (but not owned) by Celtic Media Group.