A fresh planning row has broken out over the use of a public car park by customers of a supermarket in Bantry.

Here is a timeline of events regarding the Indaver incinerator from 2001 to 2018.

Planning permission has been granted for a new amusement arcade in Cobh, despite objections from the owner of one of the town’s largest visitor attractions.

A leading tourist attraction in Cobh is opposing plans for a new amusement arcade near the centre of the town.

Single people on the waiting list in West Cork have, effectively, not a “hope in hell” of being accommodated by the local authority — but they could “bond” with like-minded people or even get married to boost their chances.

Engineers have attempted to allay fears about major Japanese Knotweed infestation delaying a €8.1m flood prevention project in a Cork satellite town.

A senior government official has warned that the €61m budget announced for the clean-up of the former Irish Steel plant on Haulbowline in Cork Harbour will not be enough to complete plans to transform the site into a major public recreation amenity.

A united approach between local authorities in Cork and Kerry is being planned to lobby for a new road to improve connections between the counties.

Waste management company Indaver is in talks with Cork County Council to bury, in a mothballed landfill site, up to 40,000 tonnes of ash yearly from a proposed €160m controversial incinerator project in Ringaskiddy.

Residents in local authority housing are afraid to report their neighbours’ antisocial behaviour for fear of reprisals, members of the largest council in the country have claimed.

More than a quarter of all road bridges maintained by Cork Co Council are classified as having at least “significant damage” and needing to be repaired within 12 months.

I read with interest Councillor Noel Collins’s letter (Irish Examiner, January 24). He raised issues about dangerous beaches and waters.

Businesses owe Cork County Council €94.4m in commercial rates over the past four years, with arrears steadily increasing.

Figures released by Cork Co Council show that 60% of septic tanks inspected are non-compliant with new regulations — especially de-sludging by householders.

Despite a bulging housing waiting list, councillors have expressed surprise Cork County Council has not taken up an offer to acquire residential properties from Nama.

The Government has not given any signal to Cork Co Council on a funding request of €4.25 million to restore winter storm-damaged roads, piers and harbours.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are on the verge of signing a co-operation pact to give the parties joint control of three major local authorities — Cork Co Council, Kerry Co Council and the new Limerick City and County Council.

The old Church of Ireland just outside Goleen is surrounded by graves, but now a new ghost could be about to join them.

A Cork town has vowed to fight realignment of county-wide commercial rates.

Cork County has enough land zoned for housing to fill 3,460 full-size soccer pitches with new homes.

Cork, the country’s largest coastal county, has lost four of its blue flag beaches.

A centuries-old tower in West Cork, in a semi-derelict state, will open to the public this summer as a tourist attraction.

Two county councils have had to make substantial settlements with the tax authorities because they failed to properly account for staff allowances.

Bishop of Cloyne William Crean has said his heart goes out to the family of a seven-year-old boy who died a day after falling into a flooded river near his home.

A man, who passionately believes people should have the right to be buried in the area they resided, is seeking planning permission for the first privately-run cemetery in Co Cork.

Disabled and elderly people in Cork county face unnecessary hardship over a funding deficit in home improvement grants.

A toxic dump in Cork harbour could be made safe by late-2015 or early-2016, according to the head of a team working on the project.

By Aodhan O'Faolain and Ray Managh

Four communities in Co Cork have been fighting the elements while sprucing up their villages in an attempt to win an annual Pride of Place competition and a share of a €30,000 prize fund.

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A SECONDARY school principal has pleaded with Cork Co Council to install safety railings on a bridge to prevent his pupils from falling into the shallow river below and getting killed or seriously injured.

THE founder of a co-operative which reinstated the Cork-Swansea ferry link has resigned from the group, due to pressure of work.

WITH an above average marriage rate, a greater likelihood than the rest of us to own their homes outright and families less likely to have a single mother at the head, the population of Cork South West would appear to favour the traditional — and politics is no different.

A LOCAL authority was praised yesterday for eradicating the risks posed by a potentially deadly gas found in its housing stock.

THE Government has given the green light to create plans for the first purpose-built town in Munster.

THOUSANDS of people are being asked to sign a petition aimed at persuading Health Minister Mary Harney to reverse her decision not to carry out a baseline health study in a harbour town blighted by cancer.

IARNRÓD Éireann’s plans to build a new commuter railway station on the Cork-Midleton line have been shunted into the sidings by An Bord Pleanála.

A MAJOR inter-city road upgrade has been caught up in a web of bureaucratic confusion.