Fianna Fáil have retained the top positions in the new Kerry County Council, with support from Fine Gael and Labour and three independents.

Former lord mayor of Cork Des Cahill has said that a plaque should be in erected to honour Mary Elmes in her native Ballintemple following a decision to name the city’s newest bridge after the woman dubbed Ireland’s Oskar Schindler.

Cork County Council is still interested in acquiring a derelict site in a harbour town for a major regeneration project, even though it was recently withdrawn from sale by its owners.

Cork City Council has rejected suggestions that it has reduced homeless services in Cork city.

The plan to build an eight storey apartment complex on Griffith Avenue, Dublin is raising some concerns.

Cork City Council has agreed to sell an historic derelict house it acquired last summer but has decided to hold on to a nearby landbank despite an offer of over €500,000.

Close to €144m will be spent and earned by Kerry County Council in 2019 but balancing the budget has “presented many difficulties”, councillors in Tralee have been told.

A local authority tenant who pays rent on a council house but lives elsewhere should surrender the keys, a city councillor has said.

The councillor who led criticism of the We Are Cork branding exercise wants the city to ask for a refund from the consultants who worked on the logo.

Dublin looks set to miss out on the opportunity to have a directly elected Lord Mayor, in favour of Cork.

Ireland’s involvement with United Nations peacekeeping should make it suitable for membership of the UN Security Council. (‘UN Security Council bid: Campaign intensifies’, Irish Examiner, July 3).

Cork county councillors want to use the country’s largest, but unused, landfill site to dispose of Japanese knotweed, and say the move might make it cheaper to build new homes.

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Cork city's council has spent no fewer than six years agreeing and then watering down plans to solve the traffic problems that blight St Patrick St.

Cork County Council officials are exploring creating dog-free walking areas in towns and villages in an attempt to cut down on dog fouling.

Cork City Council is close to acquiring 106 acres and a period house near the Lee Fields and the Model Farm Road for possible use as a greenway amenity, in a deal valued at more than €2.2m.

Suitable land is being sought to provide a third car park in a Kerry harbour village, the main departure point for Skellig Michael, which features in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

The Housing Minister is to pressure local authorities to build more social houses by publishing targets for each individual area.

Irish Water has been accused of scaremongering after it revealed plans to complete its takeover of all local authority staff working in water services four years earlier than intended.

There have been calls for the publication of an internal Waterford City and County Council probe into how €1.5m was spent on 63 new vans for no specific reason.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has rejected claims senior civil servants pushed a pro-merger agenda during the controversial 2015 review of Cork’s local government structures.

Eoin English reports on the latest developments from the Cork council merger plan.

Concerns have been raised that personal data, including mobile phone numbers, of successful housing applicants have been emerging from Kerry County Council.

Empty-nesters are being encouraged to downsize into secure and sheltered local authority housing in Cork City in a bid to free up larger homes for families on the housing list.

Cork’s city councillors have rejected an offer from the county council to cede land because it “runs contrary” to the larger city boundary extension recommended by an expert group.

Cork City councillors are due to hold a special meeting next Monday to discuss the latest fall-out from the Mackinnon report on the city boundary extension.

Cork county councillors are seeking urgent clarification from the minister responsible for the expansion of Cork City’s boundary amid fears the body overseeing its implementation considers the Mackinnon report to be written in stone.

Management of Cork City Council have not “earned the right or demonstrated sufficient capacity or expertise” to run an expanded city.

Cork County Council would immediately relinquish commercial rates and local property tax (LPT) worth in excess of €16m per year if its revised plan for the city council boundary extension is accepted by the Implementation Oversight Group.

A local authority has expressed a “strategic interest” in acquiring a vacant HSE-owned hospital.

A county council is planning to slap a development charge on the construction of farmers’ sheds, for the first time ever.

Cork City Council has contacted Cork GAA County Board to air its concerns about the traffic and parking arrangements at the redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh, following the first game at the redeveloped stadium on Wednesday night.

A local authority’s ability to meet housing demand could be “fundamentally compromised” unless Cork’s city boundary is extended, top city officials have warned.

Workers regularly complain about being stuck in major traffic jams, while residents say the congestion at peak times makes them prisoners in their own homes.

Cork County Council wants compensation for the loss of a huge swathe of its territory to be paid by Cork City Council indefinitely and not just over a 10-year period, as recommended by the Mackinnon report.

“If this document was produced under British rule, it would have brought about revolution, and it should. This is a diktat we can’t accept.”

The new Lord Mayor of Cork says he is confident that a “fair compensation package” for the county council can be worked out to secure a city boundary extension.

That old Irish joke, that the first item on any agenda is ‘the split’, has been superseded by the never-ending debate around the wisdom of amalgamating Cork city and county councils or of extending city boundaries to encompass growing dormitory towns and villages.