A new greenway and a woodland recreational area are among a range of ambitious new amenity, cultural, and tourism projects being pursued by a dynamic new lobby group launched in north Cork.

A large secondary school in Co Cork is to undergo a €5.5m extension which will enable it to more than double its original intake of pupils.

A festival with a difference is to be held in a Co Cork town which aims to get more children interested in science and turn it into a hub for research and innovation.

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

THE proposed €500 million Greencore development at the site of the former Mallow Sugar Factory, which is expected to deliver up to 2,000 jobs, will be a major economic boost to the region, it was predicted yesterday.