Community groups are likely to become the frontline force in the battle against dog-fouling in Co Cork amid concerns that an increasing volume of volunteers are undertaking jobs traditionally done by the council.

The longest-serving public representative in the State is on the campaign trail as he prepares to contest the local elections in the East Cork municipal district.

Road repairs, grass-cutting, and other services are not being delivered to a lot of people in Co Cork as the local authority is starved of money due to the Government taking 20% of the local property tax (LPT).

Questions are being asked as to why a teenage girl was placed in an all-male ward at a Cork hospital where she was allegedly sexually assaulted by an older man.

One of Co Cork’s premier sandy beaches is in danger of being blown away unless works are carried out soon.

HSE officials will be asked to explain why a county councillor had to wait three hours for an ambulance and why its crew then spent a further two and a half hours outside a Cork hospital before they were given back the trolley on which she had been lying.

Justice may be seen to be done shortly with the possible disposal of a magnificent, but vacant, courthouse building.

A sick animal can be treated quicker in some parts of Co Cork than a sick person, according to county councillors.

The OPW is being urged to allow some funding to be released to Cork County Council engineers so that they can carry out interim prevention works to ease tidal flooding.

The sprawling constituency of Cork East is essentially split in two, with the main population centres of Fermoy, Mallow, and Mitchelstown in the north and Midleton, Youghal, and Cobh in the south.

A public representative is calling for urgent action to clean up or demolish a derelict factory set alight for the eighth time in three years.

Swimming has been banned on one of Cork’s premier beaches as a result of excessive E.coli bacteria levels in the water.

A woman has spoken publicly for the first time of how she was born in a mother and baby home and then visited the same place 17 years later after discovering she was pregnant.

An east Cork town councillor has resigned from Fianna Fáil and will contest the local elections as an independent, after she was overlooked for the party nomination.

Concerns have been raised in a large east Cork town about the availability of the out-of-hours SouthDoc service.

WHILE accepting that ongoing and even increasing levels of vandalism are not unique to Youghal, members of the Town Council are deeply concerned about what they believe to be a rapidly worsening situation.