In the fourth of a five-part series, Kevin O’Neill profiles the new Cork City electoral area.

The President has unveiled a plaque to mark the birthplace of a Cork man who is revered in Venezuela as a liberator, but who remains largely anonymous here.

The first supported-student accommodation complex of its kind in the State will provide vulnerable young adults with a gateway to a new life, Cork’s city councillors say.

A woman whose grandmother and aunt died of ovarian cancer as a result of the faulty BRCA1 gene faces an 18-month wait for a test to determine if she has inherited the gene.

There have been calls for a review of pedestrian crossing times in Cork City following complaints that people aren’t being given enough time to cross some of its busiest roads.

The country’s longest running film festival has been saved from financial collapse thanks to a €200,000 loan from a local authority.

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

Casting a ghostly glow along the north channel of the River Lee, a fleet of small boats set sail at precisely 7.30pm last night, slid slowly along the riverbank walls alongside the Mercy Hospital and set off on a brief yet poignant journey towards Custom House Quay.

The Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork broke ranks with his party last night to vote for a 10% cut in the city’s property tax.

The government is facing a constitutional challenge over the controversial Cork super-council plan following an historic midnight meeting of the city council.

The head of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has said there will be a demand for skilled young craftspeople as the economy recovers.

City Hall has defended the early switch-on of Cork’s Christmas lights this week.

Fears have been expressed that thousands of voters in Cork could be disenfranchised after they received incorrect polling station information.

Gardaí are preparing a file for the DPP after releasing without charge a man who was arrested after a €100,000 heroin seizure in Cork city.

The new lord mayor of Cork ignored a large vocal protest last night and vowed to review city centre parking policy and advance plans for a new food emporium for the city.

The gates of cemeteries in Cork City may be locked at night in a bid to prevent vandals from desecrating graves.

Cork city councillors want the environment minister to overhaul An Bord Pleanála amid claims it has rendered the city’s development plan useless.

Cork city councillors have moved to seek a High Court review of a Bord Pleanála decision that overturned a unanimous council vote and changed the city development plan for a retail project.

The huge oil field off Kinsale will be worthless to the Irish economy unless our over-generous fiscal regime is altered.

Tinky Winky, Laa-Laa, and Po are getting a bit Dipsy — or should we say Tispy — on Teletubbie Hill.

The father of a little girl with autism has pleaded with the Government to reverse SNA cuts at her special school.

Cork’s city manager has defended the sale price of public land to facilitate the GAA’s €40m revamp of Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

Cork’s city manager has been asked to tackle parking problems outside a bingo hall.

Manchester United gaffer Alex Ferguson has advised the Vita Cortex workers to “stick it out” as they begin day 61 of their sit-in today.

A NUMBER of protests passed off without incident just over 100 metres from the English Market during Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Cork.

TWO local councillors, who refuse to claim conference expenses, have called for an immediate crackdown on the system so that taxpayers’ money can be put to better use.

A STING operation should be mounted to crack down on dog fouling in Cork, a city councillor said.

POLITICIANS have united to oppose college students’ plans for a “daytime alcohol bingeing fiasco” which wreaked havoc in a Cork suburb last year.

IN our capacity as councillors we and our colleagues are faced daily with the appalling consequences for people arising from the economic and banking mismanagement of the past decade.

FINE Gael has for the first time become the largest party on Cork City Council, ending decades of Fianna Fáil dominance.

IF A week is a long time in politics, then 30 years must be an eternity.

BOUNDARY changes have thrown the race in this former five-seat ward wide open with the Green Party and Sinn Féin set to battle it out for the new sixth seat.

THE national monument in Grand Parade is a landmark we in Cork should be proud of.

FIANNA FÁIL’S Billy Kelleher was the first deputy to be returned to the Dáil in the four-seat constituency of Cork North Central yesterday evening.

FINE Gael insists it will win two seats in the crucial Cork South Central constituency, but won’t reveal the polling data it has to support that contention.

ONLY three Cork-based TDs are racing certainties to be re-elected to the next Dáil, according to a former minister — and bookmaker.

AS an ex-smoker I sympathise with those who are used to a puff and a drink, but I have no sympathy for publicans moaning over the recent drop in sales — these are the very people who put 30 cent on every long-neck bottle after the last budget, when the only increase was supposed to be for alco-pops.