It’s tough being a Rose - spending hours in high-heels, posing for selfies at every turn, the constant smiling and waving, as the tour trundles towards Tralee.

Fresh from a highly successful public auction at the Vienna Woods Hotel in Glanmire on May 29, Michael Barry of Fermoy-based auctioneers Dick Barry & Son is to present an even more exciting prospect to the market on August 16 next — this time at the Grand Hotel in the centre of Fermoy.

The Health and Safety Authority is investigating after a man in his early 50s died in a farming accident in Cork.

A man in his early 50s has died in a farming accident in Co Cork.

Local politics in Fermoy has been a game of musical chairs of sorts with representatives not just giving up county council positions for Dáil seats, but also swapping parties since the last local elections.

The city boundary extension will remove nearly all of Glanmire from the former Glanmire-Cobh municipal district.

A person returning to Ireland after, say, 40 years abroad would be amazed at the vast changes in the landscape since the 1970s.

Many rural villages in Co Cork continue to suffer in the aftermath of Storm Ophelia, with some, such as Carrignavar, still without power, water, phones, and internet connection, and hampered by fallen trees blocking roads.

New information released by Cork County Council supports claims by a major business association that it pays vast amounts of rates, but has got little or nothing back over the years to improve its creaking infrastructure.

This dormer home is c 5kms from Douglas and 5kms oo from Carrigaline. 

Coillte spends €450k a year cleaning up litter. We meet the contractor who’s out to bust the dumpers. Are bin charges to blame? asks Donal O’Keeffe

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Citizens have taken a case against the Dutch government for its lack of effective action on climate change. The court ruled a state must take precautions against global warming.

Cork ladies PRO Pat Culloty insists there are “no hard feelings” following Eamonn Ryan’s decision to step down as senior football manager to join Peadar Healy with the men’s footballers.

Glenville 1-2 Knockavilla 0-3: Glenville claimed the Allianz Sciath na Scol DGF5 Football title as they saw off the spirited challenge of Knockavilla in yesterday’s decider at Páirc Uí Rinn.

An Bord Pleanala, in permitting The Port of Cork to move its container port, in Tivoli, to Ringaskiddy, has overturned its own decision of seven years ago not to grant permission, and has now overruled its own inspector, who had recommended refusal.

Dairy farming convert Edward Payne from Co Roscommon has been chosen as the 2014 Teagasc Student of the Year, a prestigious annual competition sponsored by FBD Trust.

The family of a man who has been missing since Monday has issued an emotional appeal for him to come home.

Cork Alpine and Hardy Plants Society present a talk by Val Bourne, the award-winning garden writer, last year’s “Journalist of the Year” at the UK Garden Media Guild Awards; photographer; lecturer and columnist for the Telegraph newspaper, on Thursday, Feb 26.

Smoke rose from a car after a 10-mile drive to get away from gardaí and when it came to halt at a roadblock over €56,000 worth of cannabis and cocaine were found in the car.

Mitchelstown Flower and Garden Club are hosting a teaching and work night demonstration with Bernadette Scanlon at the Town Hall on Thursday, October 30 at 8pm. 

Convicted double rapist Patrick ‘Lo Lo’ O’Driscoll has not visited a New Age Traveller settlement in West Cork and has no intention of moving there from his current home in Glenville.

A north Cork school that once taught classes in a converted toilet due to chronic overcrowding is celebrating "a red letter day" — as construction has finally begun on a new school building.

A man convicted of two rapes fled through the fields after his brother saw two "hitmen" on a motorcycle gunning for him.

Gardaí are openly visiting a convicted double-rapist up to three times a day since his recent release from prison and have also put him under covert surveillance.

North Cork is on high alert after a repeat rapist, who is widely expected to strike again, returned to his family after serving 11 years of a 17-year sentence for rape and sexual assault.

U17 football: Cork’s U17 football development squad faced Dublin in a series of challenge matches at Clonakilty last Saturday.

The chairman of the Oireachtas committee on justice has said that some serious offenders, including repeat rapists, should be electronically tagged if released from prison early.

A 47-year-old repeat rapist, described by gardaí as "a predator" and "especially dangerous to women" is to be released from prison early next month — having served only 11 years of a 17-year sentence for rape and sexual assault.

* Dungarvan Flower and Garden Club Presents an evening, ‘Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer’, an illustrated lecture, with plant collector and gardener, Hester Forde at Park Hotel, Dungarvan on Wednesday, May 7 at 8pm.

A former Fianna Fáil junior minister who lost his seat at the last general election is hoping to be elected to Cork County Council.

Two people have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the sale and supply of drugs in Co. Cork.

A significant rise in muggings and thefts in Cork’s city centre is being blamed on an increase in the number of heroin addicts who need to get money quickly for their next fix.

World champion Irish Sport Horse Arraghbeg Clover is to be auctioned in December by Holger Hetzel, the German having bought her from rider Greg Broderick and Declan Orpen.

A small community is united in mourning as it prepares to bury a sports-loving teenager who died in a weekend farming tragedy in North Cork.

THERE’S going to be serious viewing interest in the Edwardian semi-d called Lynton, going by the early signs — phonecalls from the moment a sale board went up, as well as the impact of a very similar house sale a few doors away earlier this year.

Macroom 3-13 Glenville 1-03

Michael O’Donnell had begun to despair of it ever happening, but yesterday the principal of Glenville National School in north Cork was breathing a sigh of relief that, after years of waiting, tortuous planning applications and frustrating delays, the Government had finally agreed to fund the building of a new school.

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