There will be two hours of free parking in the mornings and free late-night parking on selected days in the city’s North Main St and Paul St car parks.

Cork City Council held its first paperless meeting tonight — a move which will save taxpayers almost €7,000 a year.

The length of the ballot paper in tomorrow’s European election will cause headaches for the people sorting votes on Saturday.

The operator of Cork’s derailed tourist train could face legal action following a protracted dispute over its pickup location.

There have been calls for City Hall to help “mend the hurt” caused by a complex and at times bitter 12-year planning saga over the future of a green in Cork City.

Cork’s historic Coal Quay needs a new vision, City Hall has admitted, conceding that its original vision of creating a thriving market precinct “hasn’t been fully realised”.

A planning probe is under way following the erection of a fast-food giant’s advertising signs on a historic laneway entrance to Cork’s famous English Market.

You could soon be walking in the footsteps of Cork’s favourite tracksuit-wearing teenage tearaways, Conor and Jock, if a former lord mayor has his way.

A tour of the sites made famous by TV and film hit 'The Young Offenders' could be the latest tourist attraction to lure visitors to the second city in the near future.

Cork City Council has defended the Lord Mayor’s use of the official mayoral car to drive him home from the Fianna Fáil ard fheis in Dublin last Saturday.

A market stall which was blocking views of a listed pub in Cork’s traditional street market quarter has been moved.

Tourism ambassadors have, for the first time, begun selling Cork city’s visitor attractions to passengers on board the luxury cruise ships calling to the Port of Cork in a bid to capture a slice of an estimated €12m market.

A new tourist train is set to roll through the streets of Cork city from next month, thanks to a €100,000 public investment which includes a €10,000 grant to cover large insurance costs.

City officials have warned against suspending new visitor controls at Cork’s famous English Market.

Fresh moves are underway to find new premises for a club for children with autism which has seen a surge in demand for its services.

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

Let’s face it, January is a cold, dark, dreary month which can often result in people feeling a bit down or suffering from those January cold and flu’s.

Protesters who occupied part of Cork City Hall yesterday in solidarity with the Apollo House activists in Dublin have vowed to continue their campaign to help the homeless.

Fears have been expressed about the future development of Cork’s historic Elizabeth Fort as a tourism asset following confirmation that funding is being prioritised in the Shandon area.

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

Cork City Council is expected to discuss legal advice tonight after a challenge to the filling of a vacant seat.

The co-option of an Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) member onto Cork City Council was dramatically deferred last night after a challenge emerged.

Chronic under-staffing in Cork City’s library service has resulted in unplanned branch closures, reduced opening hours, and the closure of specialist sections.

A plea is being made to the Government to help a charity take the strain out of hospital visits for outpatients requiring cancer and kidney dialysis treatment.

Streets in Cork City were closed for over two hours yesterday after fears were raised about a potentially dangerous building.

A Cork all-Irish school has reversed its decision not to enrol a third first-year class next September after more than 20 appeals were made to the Department of Education.

Kanturk booked their place in the fifth round of the Munster Junior Cup as Presentation defeated Newcastle West in the final of the Munster Junior Shield in what was a very quiet weekend on the junior front.

A ROW flared last night after a man running for election to the Seanad was co-opted onto Cork City Council to fill a seat left vacant following the recent death of a popular Independent local politician.

FOR decades, they’ve been experts at selling the freshest of produce.

ONE of Cork’s last 1970s-built NBA flats complexes moved a step closer to demolition today.

A HUGE wall bearing a religious mural, which was damaged by construction work, was declared unsafe yesterday and will have to be demolished.

RESIDENTS evacuated after vibrations from building work damaged their inner-city homes have called for a complete halt to the development project.

RESIDENTS of an historic inner-city community whose neighbours were evacuated after cracks appeared in their homes said they were still living in fear of a building collapse last night.

PLANNERS have learned from the mistakes of the past when designing social housing, said Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal, Noel Ahern.

THE lands that formed part of the old St Joseph's Monastery in Blarney St in Cork are slowly being covered by houses and beginning to form one of the most unusual integrated developments in the city, despite the fact that planning permission was given before the implementation of Part V of the Planning Act 2000.

YOUNG families and single parents who have been in crisis accommodation will benefit from a €2.5 million project aimed at reintegrating them into the community.