The Green Party has described cycling and public transport targets in a €3.5bn Cork transport study as “depressingly unambitious”.

A proposal to rezone sports land for an apartments scheme planned by a well-known Cork hurling club has been shot down.

If things are going well then the end of possibility seems remote. It things are not, then our fickleness is exposed and something close enough to fear usurps hope.

The Fianna Fáil leader has accused Fine Gael of “looking down their noses” at social housing projects.

Homeless families and children protested outside Cork City Hall last night before a council meeting in which a vacant industrial site was rezoned for housing and a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction was announced.

There are calls for increased Garda resources to clamp down on violent attacks and crime in Cork city.

The image of a child eating his food off a piece of cardboard on the streets of the capital should outrage society, leading campaigner for the homeless, Fr Peter McVerry believes.

Gardaí are hunting for two suspects who knocked a woman in her 90s to the ground during a daylight mugging in a Cork town.

Joe Brolly has responded to the news he will not feature in RTÉ's coverage of the All-Ireland football final reply on Twitter.

Joe Brolly will not be part of RTÉ's coverage of Saturday's All-Ireland football final replay.

A controversial €6m road upgrade to help open Cork’s sprawling south docklands for more development has been given the green light despite claims the planning process was flawed.

On her Twitter handle, RTÉ sports presenter Jacqui Hurley describes herself as a ‘messer’, so it’s no surprise to hear that whenever she and Des Cahill work together, “laughing and messing” often ensue.

Students have been invited to help shape Cork’s climate change adaptation strategy which will be published today for public consultation.

A huge €47m land deal paves the way for a near €1bn waterfront precinct on Cork’s south docks which could sustain thousands of residents and thousands of new jobs.

The long-held vision for Cork’s docklands as a thriving urban waterfront precinct has taken a major step forward after details of a landmark deal emerged.

Sinn Féin has accused the larger political parties on Cork City Council of shafting long-serving councillors off certain committees during a tense council meeting last night.

Sinn Féin has accused the larger political parties on Cork City Council of shafting long-serving councillors by removing them from certain committees during a lengthy and at times tense council meeting tonight.

Katie Taylor has received a hero's welcome as she returned to her hometown of Bray as the undisputed world champion.

Talks on who will become the next Lord Mayor of Cork were already underway even as the last two candidates took their seats with just a single vote separating them following a recount.

Fianna Fáil is on course to retain its position as the largest party on Cork City Council with Fine Gael a close second after the “green wave” swept Sinn Féin aside over the weekend.

Fianna Fáil councillor Mary Rose Desmond has made history after becoming the first sitting county councillor to be elected in the newly-expanded Cork City Council.

Sinn Féin could be set to lose as many as half of its seats on Cork City Council as the Green Party look set to make significant gains.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork has hit out at 'cowards' who have twice damaged election posters at his house in recent weeks.

Cork’s City Council agreed last night to change its rules on the replacement of certain councillors following a resignation, election, sickness, or death.

“I just find it extremely disturbing with young children going to school and people in general, it’s not an image they want to see.”

Mr McGee, who was in his late seventies, passed away in the early hours of this morning.

In the final of a five-part series, Kevin O’Neill profiles the competitive Cork City South-East constituency.

Tributes have been paid to Aoife O’Connell, a 21-year-old Cork student who has been killed in a road traffic collision in the Netherlands.

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.

Cork’s newest bridge is to be named after Mary Elmes, dubbed Ireland’s Oskar Schindler, following public involvement in the process.

Eir Sport have announced the longlist of 23 nominees for the eir Sport Book of the Year award.

I asked my Posh Cousin is it normal for a Blackrock snob to allow a gang of Norries into his home. She said not really unless you are interviewing for a cleaner.

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A former lord mayor of Cork has called for a marquee-style structure on one of the city’s quays, which has been home to a man for several months, to be torn down.

City councillors are to seek meetings with the garda traffic corps and the roads and transportation division of Cork City Council on foot of traffic chaos in the aftermath of the senior hurling championship match between Cork and Limerick in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday night.

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.

One of the country’s oldest independent bookshops, Liam Ruiséal’s in Cork City, is set to close later this year after more than a century in business.

Reports of secret relationships and long-hidden affairs are being recalled in Co Kerry as a result of the renewed investigation into the death of the baby found stabbed on a beach near Caherciveen in 1984.

Former lord mayor Des Cahill may be called to give evidence in the case against a man accused of blacking out streets names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria.

He may have come second last in the judges’ scores; he may have been up against a world champion and a rugby grand slam winner — but this year’s Dancing With the Stars is already shaping up to be a Marty party.