For nearly two years, the controversy over creating a statute to Jack Doyle in his hometown has rumbled on.

The High Court has ruled the State has a constitutional duty to make "reasonable efforts" to assign a bilingual judge in a District Court criminal trial as requested by a man who wants to conduct his side of the case in Irish.

In the final of a five-part series, Kevin O’Neill profiles the competitive Cork City South-East constituency.

A special committee of Cork County Council is to look at the possibility of setting up women’s refuges and ‘safe houses’ after an impassioned plea was made by a councillor who described how she was once a victim of domestic abuse.

A councillor accused of blacking out Queen Victoria-related street names in Cork has applied to have his case heard in Irish - this application will be heard at the High Court in Dublin next month.

Those who held a protest against the Port of Cork's closing of a supposed public right of way for the arrival of Cobh's first cruise liner of the year have been urged to ditch their placards for the sake of the town's tourism industry.

A man who runs special historic walking tours in a harbour town has described how “embarrassed” he is at having to constantly point out dog excrement on its streets to visiting tourists so they don't step in it.

A battle over rights of way in a Cork harbour town could lead to pickets being placed at its deep water quay when cruise liners start to arrive for the new season in April.

The application by a councillor to have his case heard in Irish will be heard at the High Court in Dublin on December 13.

County councillors have said it is “sinful” and “unbelievable” that 57 acres of local authority-owned land has lain unused in a Co Cork town for more than 20 years.

A new sculpture to be installed in a Cork harbourside town has the potential to become one of the most photographed in Ireland — because of its design.

It cost Cork County Council over €108,000 to fix up a vacant house to a standard which permitted it to be rented to a new tenant.

Cork County Council wants Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to create a national emergency committee to tackle the housing crisis — one which will act with the same urgency which addressed the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the North in 2001.

The District Court judge dealing with the case against a councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Queen Victoria told him to go to the High Court if he wanted to raise the issue of having a judge fluent in Irish for the case.

Spikes on a gate in a council housing estate are likely to be removed after a little boy impaled himself on one of them while climbing.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

The investigation into the blacking out of street signs named after Britain’s Queen Victoria resulted in a councillor and two other men being charged at Cork District Court yesterday.

The Residential Tenancy Board (RTB) has been criticised after a man fighting eviction from the home he had lived in for 19 years walked out of an appeal hearing.

Resentment is being caused in communities in Cork county as people, residing up to 70km away, are edging out locals on a waiting list for council houses.

A man fighting eviction from his dead mother’s council house said he is living in fear of becoming homeless.

Protesters defied threats of an injunction yesterday to picket the Cork County Sheriff’s office over the eviction of a family in rent arrears for almost two years.

A politician who was arrested and questioned about a controversial campaign to deface Cork street signs with links to historical British figures said he is prepared to contest any charges he may face.

Irish street name campaigners who defaced several ‘Victoria’ road signs in Cork City have been accused of attacking the city’s heritage.

A campaign will be launched tonight to rename some of Cork City’s best-known streets which commemorate British “aristocrats and war criminals” after Irish heroes.

An unsuccessful general election candidate was jailed for five days yesterday for refusing to pay a €300 fine arising out of his conviction for failing to file a list of donations with the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo).

Almost 1,200 council tenants in Cork city are facing rent hikes as work continues on a major city-wide rent review.

Homelessness protesters have defended a rush-hour banner protest over the Jack Lynch tunnel in Cork yesterday, insisting it never posed a danger to traffic.

The Lord Mayor of Cork plans to present, to the Dáil next week, a “boycott Irish Water petition” signed by 22,000 people which the previous mayor refused to accept.

A distraught woman who is defying an eviction order and refusing to leave her Cork City apartment has pleaded with city officials to save her from a life on the streets.

A controversial rent review process affecting almost 6,000 Cork City Council tenants will not be halted despite protests and calls for it to be scrapped.

Thousands of local authority tenants have been asked for their PPS numbers and threatened with a €100 monthly rent hike if they don’t engage fully in a major rent review in Cork City.

A defiant Lord Mayor of Cork insisted last night that she will not accept an anti-water charges petition because it urges people to break the law.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has criticised an anti-water charges group for targeting the office of mayor.

The deputy lord mayor of Cork has dismissed calls from Irish Water protesters for his resignation, and that of the lord mayor.

A row has broken out in Cork City Council after the deputy Lord Mayor of Cork refused to accept a petition of 15,000 Irish Water boycott signatures from anti-water charge protesters last night.

Anti-water charge protesters say they have been snubbed and insulted after the deputy Lord Mayor of Cork refused to accept their petition of 15,000 Irish Water boycott signatures.

A group opposed to water charges has gathered almost 15,000 signatures from people who have vowed to boycott Irish Water.

The People’s Convention and groups linked to it have been hit with over €10,000 in litter fines for alleged illegal postering in Cork City.

Cork City Council had to abandon its meeting last night after an anti-water charge protester refused to leave the council chamber.

Cork City Council was plunged into crisis last night after it failed to adopt its 2015 budget — despite two votes.

The young man who called off his anti water charges hunger strike last night has pledged to devote his energy to fighting the tax in an organised manner.

Several local election candidates defied litter pollution laws yesterday to highlight what they claim is an “inequality” in electoral law.

Protesters were locked out of Cork City Hall last night as councillors agreed a 2014 budget described by the city manager as a “turning point” for the city.