A businessman who hopes to double his workforce by building a €500,000 food production facility in Co Cork says his plans have been stymied by cuts and changes to the State’s Leader funding scheme.

WE’RE taking a slightly different tack on the car front this week and having a look at a unique driver training facility in west Cork which is the realisation of a dream of a very unique woman.

County councillors are backing solicitors in registering anger at the proposed closure of a courthouse in Co Cork.

IT STARTED as a drive by local mums to tackle an unsightly piece of waste ground — now a spectacular garden designed by Diarmuid Gavin for a West Cork town has won two prestigious awards.