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.

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

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.

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.

Gardaí called to the home of a young man 30 times to check he was on a curfew but he never answered and yesterday he claimed he was at home every night but was afraid to open the door.

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Water charges protester Diarmaid Ó Cadhla, of The People’s Convention, was convicted and fined €300 at Cork District Court yesterday for failing to file a document related to electoral donations with the Standards in Public Office Commission after the 2011 general election.

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Two houses are on offer in the same part of the mature Cork suburb, writes Tommy Barker

EXTENDED a few years ago, both off the kitchen and the back family room, is 56, Upper Beaumont Drive, in Cork’s Ballintemple suburb.

FOLLOWING the lead of Mairéad Scannell (Letters, October 22), I am going to “give political correctness the boot” and deliver some real Truth.

‘IF IT were built today, there would be three houses on this site’, says auctioneer, Declan Groeger, of a property at Upper Beaumont Drive in Ballintemple, Cork.

A JURY foreman yesterday called on the National Roads Authority (NRA) to study a stretch of the main Cork/Killarney road on which a senior Cork County Council official and her small daughter died.