Cork County Council has signed a contract worth over €9m to deliver 49 council houses in one of the country’s largest commuter towns.

A county councillor in Leitrim has refused to apologise for repeatedly using the n-word at a local meeting this week.

A request is being made for Pope Francis to come to Co Cork when he visits Ireland next August, with the racecourse in Mallow likely the best venue to host him.

The Mackinnon report’s recommendation of an extension of the Cork City boundary is “nothing more than an attempted rates and land grab”, residents in a Co Cork town have complained.

Work on repairing roads and local authority houses will grind to a halt if Siptu workers in Cork County Council vote for strike action.

Councillor Hugh McElvaney has been asked to resign from Monaghan County Council.

Community-run childcare facilities will have to pay rates arrears, Cork County Council insisted yesterday, despite new regulations that permit non-profit companies to apply to the Valuation Office to seek exemption of rates in future years.

Fears have been expressed that some of Cork’s 19,000 documented archaeological sites could disappear because the County Council doesn’t have enough expert personnel to keep them in good shape.

Fianna Fáil have regained control of Cork County Council for the first time since 1991 after cobbling together a loose coalition with seven of the 10 Independents and two Labour councillors.

Cork County Council has refused to reveal what went wrong when it paid €1.5m to build a vehicle underpass below a railway line that is now filled in with earth between two fallow fields.

A planning application has been submitted for a new privately-developed graveyard in a top tourist area where spaces in existing public cemeteries are fast running out.

It is well over a century since Limerick County Council first met but its last ever meeting proved when it comes to local politics, some things never change.

Kerry County Council has ordered mitigation works to be carried out on a rare Bronze Age valley in west Kerry where a donkey sanctuary is being constructed.

I understand that our rural county councils have as their remit the management and maintenance of our hedgerows and ditches for safety and other reasons.