A group of about 450 West Cork businesses has demanded a strategy for the county’s airport that will contribute to the economic success of the region.

This is the first time that we have come together to present a ‘unified voice for West Cork Business’ and this should be viewed as a barometer of the strength of feeling and collective positivity that exists in relation to establishing Cork Airport as a driver for economic success in our region now and into the future.

People living in Clonakilty will have to endure major disruption when €2m flood prevention works get underway shortly.

Some of the new municipal districts created in County Cork could be on a collision course with council officials over paid parking.

Pay parking could be introduced in some Co Cork towns and abolished in others as new municipal districts are scheduled to replace town councils in June.

The absence of transatlantic flights from Cork Airport is costing the county jobs, the developer of a huge office campus at the centre of Cork’s latest jobs boost has warned.

Businesses which have lost insurance cover after being flooded are on their own if it happens again — despite a public perception that government support is available.

A Co Cork town known for its summer pong will soon to be smelling of roses after the Government confirmed it is giving the go-ahead for a €6.5m upgrade of its sewage treatment system.

It’s the kind of event that the gregarious Michael Collins would have loved: A birthday celebration in his honour stretching to a fun-filled three-day event in his home town of Clonakilty in West Cork.

Three West Cork schoolboy entrepreneurs who created a drink made from seaweed have landed a prize worth €20,000 to help kickstart their business.

A €15,000 prize fund, four ‘warhorses’ and one blindingly good business idea — that’s Clon’trepreneur, an initiative by a West Cork town determined to stimulate local employment.

KNOWN for its laid back ways, Clonakilty in west Cork has become the first town in Ireland to join a global go-slow movement that places quality of life above the hurly-burly of modern living.

IT’S a dodgy date dreaded by the superstitious. But an enterprising West Cork town is planning to make its own good luck next “Friday the 13th” — and boost local business in the process.