In my senior years, it is somewhat frightening to find that the “City by the Lee” continues to be devastated during spring tides by floods, not withstanding the intervening years of advances in technology and a ravaging tiger in funding availability.

Cork Harbour Commissioners (CHC) regarded the State’s only oil refinery at Whitegate as “a milking cow”, a confidential document from 1983 reveals.

THE words shipbuilding and Dublin are not often seen together – Harland and Wolfe in Belfast and the Verolme dockyard in Cork fit much better.

PUBLIC access to prime city-centre, quayside land will be maintained despite Port of Cork moves to develop the area, the city manager has assured.

PLANNING permission for the country’s tallest building, to be constructed next to Cork’s City Hall, has been rubber-stamped by the city council.