Legislation is being prepared to extend Cork’s city boundary for the first time since 1965.

Cork county councillors may consider instructing the County Hall executive to mount a legal challenge to prevent full implementation of the Mackinnon report’s recommendations for the extension of the city boundary.

Work has begun on the demolition and clearance of 2.3 acres of industrial ground in the heart of Tralee, Co Kerry, gifted to the town last year by the Kerry Group which is headquartered in the town.

Farmers have been warned to take extra care to avoid polluting rivers and waterways after Inland Fisheries Ireland said more than a quarter of last year’s fish kills were linked to agriculture.

The first supported-student accommodation complex of its kind in the State will provide vulnerable young adults with a gateway to a new life, Cork’s city councillors say.

Cork City Council is developing a €2.1m supported-student accommodation complex in the western suburbs for young adults at risk of homelessness.

Cash-strapped local authorities have to find millions of euro from their own resources to restore public servants’ pay.

A new wastewater treatment plant will end the discharge of the equivalent of almost 20,000 wheelie bins of raw sewage into Cork Harbour within weeks.

Housing Minister, Simon Coveney, says there needs to be a faster turnover of Council housing stock, and that vacated council houses should not be left sitting void for anything longer than ‘a number of weeks.’

New junior minister Sean Canney is among a dozen former county and city councillors who will receive golden handshake payments from the local authorities after securing Dáil seats in February.

Dublin City Council will next month advertise for a dedicated cycling officer to oversee the local authority’s response to issues affecting cyclists in the capital.

A previously unpublished report by the HSE in 2012 examined Bessborough’s own records. The in-depth findings and conclusions are damning. Conall Ó Fátharta reports

Documents released to the Irish Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act have shown that private developers and house hunters were not alone in buying into the property bubble, writes Joe Leogue.

Councils spent €37m on sites for social and affordable housing that were later deemed to be "unsuitable for residential development" by a state agency established to help local authorities deal with the fallout from the economic downturn.

A government minister ordered that no pregnant women be sent to Bessborough mother-and-baby home nearly 70 years ago.

The Government pledged a €10m emergency fund forcommunities worst hit by flooding, but it has accepted it will not be enough to meet people’s needs.

The unification of Limerick city and county at next year’s local elections has already yielded a huge boost for city centre businesses — a 16% rate cut.

ON June 18 you ran a story about a new homeless service for Mitchel Street, Thurles, being provided by Novas Initiatives. Unfortunately, it contained many inaccuracies on key aspects of the development.

Clare is the worst county in Ireland to live if you’re looking for planning permission, architects claimed today.

BUSINESS property owners pay up to two-thirds and more of the annual budget of some local councils.