A new report commissioned by the Department of Transport has highlighted how 19% of more than 13,000km of main non-national roads were classified as requiring “structural rehabilitation” while 0.5% need complete reconstruction.

Local authorities are coming in for criticism for failing to buy up derelict or vacant houses.

Latest: Joan Freeman has become the latest person to be confirmed as a candidate in the Presidential election.

A grieving mum whose son died after he was struck by a car three years ago is glad local authorities around the country are being urged to introduce 30km/h zones in urban areas.

Authors of a report on the proposed extension of Cork City’s boundary ignored a request from Cork County Council to recommend the creation of a governing body which would oversee all strategic planning for the whole region.

Cash-strapped local authorities have to find millions of euro from their own resources to restore public servants’ pay.

Education, childcare, and the social needs of families would be taken into account by judges in repossession cases under a new bill.

An NCT-type certification for housing should be introduced to tackle substandard rental accommodation.

Michael Clifford reports on the increasing nervousness among residents of buildings constructed during the boom years that the ‘light touch’ regulations of the time have left their lives in danger

A small coastal community has the worst infrastructure in Co Cork, with its roads, water and sewerage systems being described as “Third World”, according to a local councillor.

There will be no reprieve for council tenants in Co Cork on plans to increase their rents despite claims the hike might be illegal.

Minister for Transport Shane Ross has increased funding for the upkeep of regional and local roads in County Cork for the first time in several years.

The Office of Public Works’ mapping of potential flooding in Cork county is seriously inaccurate in a number of locations, it has been claimed, forecasting “Noah’s Ark” extremes and paving the way for insurance companies to hike up cover or refuse it altogether.

A local authority has been told to get tough on contractors who delay the refit of vacant county council houses.

A councillor has called on Cork City Council to adopt a more “hardline approach” towards the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre.

A local authority is to clamp down on persistent defaulters of parking fines.

Hundreds of county and city councillors will benefit from a €3,500-a-year pay hike under measures being put forward by Local Government Minister Simon Coveney.

More than a third of local authorities failed to meet target performance standards for the enforcement of environmental legislation in 2015.