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.

New information released by Cork County Council supports claims by a major business association that it pays vast amounts of rates, but has got little or nothing back over the years to improve its creaking infrastructure.

We pay huge rates and deserve far better infrastructure — that’s the demand from an organisation that represents businesses in one of the country’s busiest industrial estates.

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Gary O’Flaherty is hoping to crown a successful individual season by helping Cork Golf Club to an All-Ireland title.

After university Christine wrote poetry, but she never published any. She had various jobs; she worked in the Arts in Bristol; she managed an art gallery, worked on an arts magazine, and wrote a grammar for foreign learners for IBM.

3 2 1 DRAW by Serge Bloch (Wide Eyed, €12.60)

Trade union Siptu is resisting attempts by Pfizer to shut down its defined benefit — DB — pension scheme for 1,000 Irish employees.

Lost In The Crater of Fear and Lost In The Swamp of Terror , both by Tracey Turner (Bloomsbury, €6.30).

A Cork e-book distribution company has launched its latest classroom-based web application in a Douglas school for hearing and speech-impaired children.

Taking Flight, by Sheena Wilkinson (Little Island; €9.99) Fifteen-year-old Declan lives with his wastrel mother, whose life is dominated by booze. She will go with the lowest of the low to get it.

A blueprint for the development of Co Cork up to 2021 identifies the need for 73,000 extra houses, a designated area for windfarms, and the need to earmark land for major new industry.

Cork Golf Club’s dreams of an AIG All-Ireland Cups & Shields National Finals double may have been dashed already this week but the team is being backed to bounce back in today’s Senior Cup semi-finals.

Party time never seems to end for Cork Golf Club these days. Just as calm returns to Little Island after their successful 125th year celebrations, they are now turning their attentions to next week’s Irish Cups and Shields finals at Royal Tara for which they have qualified in the Barton Shield and Irish Senior Cup.

An upgrade of the Dunkettle/Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange is “vital for the growth of Cork”, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing was told yesterday.

Grounded by Sheena Wilkinson (Little Island; €9.71)

Pfizer workers went through a rollercoaster of emotions, with anger, fear, and in some cases relief intermingling as they were finally told of 177 jobs cuts at the company’s two Cork factories.

Itchy Itch Itch by Mara Bergman, illustrated by Emily Bolam (Bloomsbury; €7.10).

A superb display of attacking from Scoil Mhuire na nGrás secured the H5 title at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

GOOD Little Wolf by Nadia Shireen (Random House; €7.10) tells of good overcoming bad — maybe! Little grey Rolf loves Mrs Biggins.

A SCINTILLATING second-half performance helped Star of the Sea pull away from St Brendan’s and claim the GF4 Allianz Sciath na Scol title at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

Ten Little Babies by Rose Impey, illustrated by Nicola Smee (Bloomsbury; €7.10) embraces all the elements that please the very young.

SPLISH, Splash, Splat by Rob Scotton (HarperCollins; €8.35) is another feast of fun from this brilliant artist/writer.

THE Very Merry Mice by Jack Tickle (Little Tiger; €10.66) is a sturdy book for toddlers. The playful mice are having fun during the lead-up to Christmas. Each spread features a surprise festive pop-up. Fun for little hands.

TALLIES of 2-2 apiece from John Cooper and Conor Keane helped Farran NS to win this Allianz Sciath na Scol F9 final at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

FIRST published in 1980, Quentin Blake’s award-winning Mister Magnolia (Red Fox; €7.55) has been republished to entertain another generation.

OFFICE equipment manufacturing giant Xerox has expanded its Irish presence via the €21 million ($31m) acquisition of Cork-based print services provider, Irish Business Systems (IBS).

THE State and its agencies are Cork’s biggest employer, a major new report has found.

CLOSE to 250 children and adults will be screened for TB in the coming days after it emerged two pre-schools had employed a worker infected with the disease.

IT had been coming since December, but when it arrived it was still a shock.

TEN of Ireland’s leading companies have committed themselves to conserving energy and tackle high costs under a major new scheme.

PLANS for a gas-powered electricity station that would generate enough power to light 300,000 homes have been turned down by Cork County Council.

IT’S the game basketball has been talking about for weeks - the clash of the two best sides in the country as unbeaten DART Killester make the trip to Tralee to meet the Abrakebabra Tigers in the Nivea for Men SuperLeague tomorrow night.

A SPATE of business collapses around North Cork has left the county council with a €3.6 million rates shortfall.

AT last I can sit down and read my paper again without Roy Keane plastered all over it.

There are eight games in this weekend's ESB's Men's Superleague and seven games in the ESB Women's Superleague.