Impact on communities

Irish Water urged to take action as closure for laying of pipe for waste-water treatment plant causes traffic chaos and diversions

Managing director of British-based Rioja Estates Giles Membrey said his company has reactivated the plan it first mooted 36 months ago for the Tourist Outlet Village (TOV) in Carrigtwohill

The National Army Museum in Britain has refused to budge on calls to repatriate Marengo to North Cork, where it is believed the horse hailed from 

Yesterday’s incident came just a week after a mini explosion at the company’s Anngrove plant in Carrigtwohill on April 18

Senior officials at Cork County Council have apologised for breaching legislation by not producing complete Irish language versions of the latest draft County Development Plan (CDP).

Research since covid had shown 'a massive increase in people using online payments', councillors told

Residents of Barryscourt near Carrigtwohill object to plans for Owenacurra Agri's barley storage and drying plant

Cork Simon welcomed the figures but said the numbers are small compared with the number of people in emergency accommodation and in receipt of notices to quit 

Love or hate the prospect of spending a Sunday assembling a flatpack wardrobe, there was no denying excitement at the news Ikea had finally set up its stall in Cork.

Councillors refused to approve transfer of land to company that controls fort because they said they had not received details from the company on summer opening plans

Not a single local authority across the country has applied for extra vacancy officers, which suggests a “breakdown in communications”, according to Cork East TD David Stanton

Log cabins cost €60,000-€80,000 to construct, are eco-friendly, and relatively cheap to heat.

Personal injury claims

Active travel and environmental campaigners have also warned about the danger arising from illegal parking by cars and other vehicles on footpaths

Consultant’s report raised concerns the core base of Keelbeg Pier in Union Hall had been eroded and because of this had recommended access to it be restricted until a proper underwater survey was undertaken, councillors told

The space is expected to house “informal social engagements”, including musical performances, presentation ceremonies and screenings.

A public meeting is due to be held in Kilbehenny village at the end of the month to discuss the issue

Owner Brendan Piper was told by Cork County Council he would have to pay a €60,000 bond to set up the funfair in the town's car park

TD says it is ‘astounding’ no council applied for funds for extra staff — but Cork County Council points out it has a new vacant properties unit with five full-time equivalent staff 

'I feel unsafe and uncomfortable,' says Sinn Féin councillor Danielle Twomey

Success of Wild Atlantic Way route has left town swamped with traffic, councillors told

Poor pay and conditions leading to understaffing, councillors told

The school has been a landmark on Charleville’s Main St since 1866 and was attended by former president and founder of Fianna Fáil Éamon de Valera.

Micheál Martin was speaking at the opening of new social housing in Charleville, Co Cork

Head of Council’s housing directorate 'concerned' local authority may come under pressure to provide emergency accommodation if lifting of eviction ban results in increase in homelessness

Junior minister Kieran O’Donnell was responding in the Dáil when Cork East TD David Stanton said he was 'amazed' the local authority had not applied for the funding

Councillors are also to seek government funding to make safe and re-open Cobh’s Battery Strand, which closed a decade ago.

The project will aim to identify a site or sites for art facilities, and how much they may cost

Councillors react furiously when they learn that the county receives €1,000 less per kilometre than the national average

More than 640 homes in unfinished estates in North Cork are to come under the control of Cork County Council for future infrastructural maintenance.

Committees dedicated to celebrating the life of General Liam Lynch are planning a wide programme of events, writes Sean O’Riordan

Businesses in the largest industrial hub outside Dublin have given a deadline to local and national government that they intend to withhold a proportion of their rates from June 1 and use the money to start fixing appalling roads in their area.

Working group set up last year to examine 'the risks and potential costs to the State presented by derelict ships' entering Irish territorial waters and coming ashore

Neil Michael finds a town that has been transformed. With 700 trucks a day gone, the air is clearer, the mood has lifted, noise levels have fallen. and it even smells better.

The Castlemartyr bypass will be “progressed as quickly as possible” by the Department of Transport, Eamon Ryan has confirmed.

A €4. 5m grant for the long-pledged bridge for cyclists and walkers connecting to Cork's Tramore Valley Park and a further €4. 5m for improvements to MacCurtain Street in Cork city are major elements of a new €290m active travel package.

Councillors say SACs are impeding the construction of breakwaters and other essential maritime infrastructure

Local woman Annette Nagle said of the prospective development of houses in the town: 'Let us be a part of it, but let us feel like we are actually going to be listened to and that we’re not going to be passed off with lip service.'

Cork County councillors said mandatory database the only way there could be certainty in identifying dogs which may attack humans or livestock

Eleven of the fatalities were in the West Cork division

Tim O’Sullivan’s remains were left undiscovered in his house in Mallow for up to two decades. ANN MURPHY looks at his and similar lonely deaths, and asks how this can happen in our midst

Residents in East Cork who have been forced to buy bottled water for over a year face another three years of water quality issues despite efforts to fast-track a solution.

The church was destroyed during the Battle of Kocknaclashy in 1651