Fri, 17 Apr, 2020
Sat, 21 Mar, 2020
Pat Buckley was elected on the first count in Cork East.
Sun, 09 Feb, 2020
There is great arrogance in Fine Gael claiming success in the Brexit negotiations, the Labour party leader Brendan Howlin has said.
Fri, 31 Jan, 2020
Eight years ago councillors designated iconic places such as Ballybunion as being of “no scenic importance” and therefore suitable for wind energy development.
Tue, 21 Jan, 2020
Gardaí are hunting for two suspects who knocked a woman in her 90s to the ground during a daylight mugging in a Cork town.
Wed, 18 Sep, 2019
The orders were made in favour of C&D Pet Foods, which is located at Edgeworthstown Co Longford by Mr Justice Tony O'Connor during Friday's sitting of the High Court.
Fri, 13 Sep, 2019
Hundreds of people rallied in Cork tonight demanding radical action to address the housing crisis as new figures showed that 400 new homes could be developed in vacant upper floors in the heart of the city.
Mon, 11 Mar, 2019
PLANS for a 120-bed replacement in-patient block at St John's Hospital, Limerick - to help tackle long-term patient overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick - are said to be “progressing”.
Wed, 22 Aug, 2018
Minister Jim Daly has been slapped down again by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar after saying he had no objection to going into Government with Sinn Féin.
Thu, 12 Apr, 2018
Seven serious cases, all involving cancer, were missed or misdiagnosed by a staff member at University Hospital Kerry, a review of more than 46,000 files has found.
Tue, 19 Dec, 2017
A formal proposal by Cork County Council to extend the city boundary would leave it with a revenue deficit of €8.6m annually, considerably less than a near €50m per year loss if the Mackinnon report recommendations are implemented.
Tue, 12 Sep, 2017
Bylaws are being drawn up to crack down on the roadside advertising of cars for sale and unapproved advertising hoardings which councillors say are “blighting” towns and villages in Co Cork.
Fri, 14 Apr, 2017
Transport chiefs have been accused of treating women as second-class citizens by refusing to implement the renaming of one of Cork’s busiest roads after the “forgotten women” of the Irish revolution.
Thu, 02 Mar, 2017
A Fine Gael senator has said gardaí should be paid more after witnessing a member of the force racing to the aid of a two-year-old boy who was hanging out of an apartment block window.
Fri, 04 Nov, 2016
Wed, 26 Oct, 2016
Wed, 19 Oct, 2016
Tue, 11 Oct, 2016
Councillors in County Cork are demanding Fáilte Ireland reprint a newly distributed brochure on the Wild Atlantic Way because of “glaring omissions” which they claim will hurt the tourism industry in the region.
Wed, 25 May, 2016
Members of the public may be asked to volunteer as safety wardens outside a number of schools in Cork county.
Thu, 14 Apr, 2016
Sat, 02 Apr, 2016
An East Cork councillor has called on Irish Water to either lift the boil water notice it has imposed on the area for the next eight months or explain the specific risks associated with the supply in the region.
Tue, 15 Mar, 2016
Mon, 29 Feb, 2016
Tue, 16 Feb, 2016
Overhanging branches on roadside trees has led to haulage companies, nursing the costs of damages, threatening not to deliver to certain areas in Co Cork.
Tue, 26 Jan, 2016
Wed, 20 Jan, 2016
Cork County Council is preparing bylaws to control casual trading in towns, but may not be able to control it on country roads.
Wed, 16 Sep, 2015
Thu, 06 Aug, 2015
Councillors have expressed their anger at a presumed snub by the National Roads Authority over desperately needed funding for the upgrade of the only national secondary road servicing West Cork.
Tue, 21 Jul, 2015
Cork County Council is preparing to take eight legal cases against AIB because the bank has refused to release insurance policies it holds on developers who have not finished off ghost estates.
Tue, 23 Jun, 2015
The resources of the Oireachtas are now being focused on a compromise that de facto is nothing more than another Enda Kenny escape route.
Tue, 09 Jun, 2015
Over 40% of home seekers on a Cork County Council waiting list are separated or divorced.
Tue, 12 May, 2015
The lives of gravediggers will be endangered by draft by-laws requiring graves to be dug to a depth of 8ft (2.4m), it was claimed yesterday.
Wed, 11 Mar, 2015
More rural and deprived urban areas will be left without doctors in the coming years because Government cutbacks are making GP practices unviable, the Irish Medical Organisation has warned.
Tue, 24 Feb, 2015
A new ministerial directive on housing vulnerable people has been described as “unworkable” and will put families further down local authority waiting lists.
Tue, 17 Feb, 2015
Banks and building societies have failed to release €48m in construction ‘bonds’ to Cork County Council for the completion of essential works in unfinished housing estates.
Wed, 11 Feb, 2015
Once more reputational damage has been done to whatever remaining integrity the Oireachtas has.
Wed, 28 Jan, 2015
Cork County Council hopes to co-ordinate a major push to convince the transport minister and Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to cut a deal with Cork Airport on its likely independence and to ease crippling debt.
Tue, 13 Jan, 2015
Councillors in a Co Cork town are hoping broadband will be introduced in tandem with major work on its flood prevention and sewerage systems, to avoid having to re-dig at a later stage.
Tue, 16 Dec, 2014
Cork County Council has lost nearly a third of its staff since a recruitment embargo was imposed on local authorities, and fears have been expressed that its number of outdoor staff has fallen to such a critically-low level they’re incapable of dealing with their huge workload.
Wed, 26 Nov, 2014
Toll fears have emerged again following confirmation last night that the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork is to be ‘privatised’ within months in a deal believed to be worth up to €12m.
Tue, 11 Nov, 2014
The uncertainty over the Cork events centre is set to drag on after senior city officials last night refused to answer questions on the status of the tender process.
Tue, 15 Jul, 2014
Most of the country's new Councillors are now elected, and a battle is underway between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to be the largest party on local authorities.
Sun, 25 May, 2014
Cork County Council is committing €1.2m of its reserves into repairing potholed roads, while it waits to see if the Government will reimburse it for the €2.27m worth of damage done to the roads since Storm Darwin on February 12.
Tue, 25 Mar, 2014
The country’s largest local authority is considering bringing in private contractors to fill in its potholes because it can’t cope with the workload.
Tue, 11 Mar, 2014
Despite the economic downturn, Cork County Council took in €101.8m in rates last year, up more than €10m on what it collected in 2008.
Tue, 25 Feb, 2014
A number of roads, public buildings, parks and bridges in Co Cork could soon be named after members of Cumann Na mBan.
Tue, 28 Jan, 2014
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Sat, 18 Jan, 2014
THE opposition stormed out of the Dáil — nobody noticed. The stunt, which was to protest the Government’s habit of railroading legislation through the Oireachtas only drew mild attention because it followed a TD’s bid to get a minister to drink contaminated water during a rowdy debate on the introduction of metering.
Sat, 21 Dec, 2013
I was disgusted to hear Michael Noonan recently utter that despicable phrase “go mad” that was used by FF to implicate us all in the disasters that brought the country to its knees.
Thu, 19 Dec, 2013
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