Cork County Council wants Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to create a national emergency committee to tackle the housing crisis — one which will act with the same urgency which addressed the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the North in 2001.

The District Court judge dealing with the case against a councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Queen Victoria told him to go to the High Court if he wanted to raise the issue of having a judge fluent in Irish for the case.

Spikes on a gate in a council housing estate are likely to be removed after a little boy impaled himself on one of them while climbing.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

The investigation into the blacking out of street signs named after Britain’s Queen Victoria resulted in a councillor and two other men being charged at Cork District Court yesterday.

The Residential Tenancy Board (RTB) has been criticised after a man fighting eviction from the home he had lived in for 19 years walked out of an appeal hearing.

A politician who was arrested and questioned about a controversial campaign to deface Cork street signs with links to historical British figures said he is prepared to contest any charges he may face.

Irish street name campaigners who defaced several ‘Victoria’ road signs in Cork City have been accused of attacking the city’s heritage.

A campaign will be launched tonight to rename some of Cork City’s best-known streets which commemorate British “aristocrats and war criminals” after Irish heroes.

An unsuccessful general election candidate was jailed for five days yesterday for refusing to pay a €300 fine arising out of his conviction for failing to file a list of donations with the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo).

A distraught woman who is defying an eviction order and refusing to leave her Cork City apartment has pleaded with city officials to save her from a life on the streets.

A row has broken out in Cork City Council after the deputy Lord Mayor of Cork refused to accept a petition of 15,000 Irish Water boycott signatures from anti-water charge protesters last night.

Anti-water charge protesters say they have been snubbed and insulted after the deputy Lord Mayor of Cork refused to accept their petition of 15,000 Irish Water boycott signatures.

A group opposed to water charges has gathered almost 15,000 signatures from people who have vowed to boycott Irish Water.

The People’s Convention and groups linked to it have been hit with over €10,000 in litter fines for alleged illegal postering in Cork City.

Protesters who successfully halted two consecutive meetings of Cork City Council were nowhere to be seen last night, as councillors finally managed to come together, uninterrupted, to trawl through the vast array of items accumulated over the past month.

A lone protester forced the abandonment, last night, of the second meeting of Cork City Council in a row.

Water charges protester Diarmaid Ó Cadhla, of The People’s Convention, was convicted and fined €300 at Cork District Court yesterday for failing to file a document related to electoral donations with the Standards in Public Office Commission after the 2011 general election.

The young man who called off his anti water charges hunger strike last night has pledged to devote his energy to fighting the tax in an organised manner.

A man began a hunger strike and slept outside Cork City Hall last night in protest at water charges.

Gardaí removed protesters who were occupying the council chambers in Cork City Hall last night after a row over postering laws.

Clare O’Reilly spent five summers of her teenage years at Irish college. This summer she went on a day-trip down memory lane

Several local election candidates defied litter pollution laws yesterday to highlight what they claim is an “inequality” in electoral law.

Ballysaggart in Co Waterford is bursting with pride ahead of Sunday’s minor final with the Bennett boys pivotal to Déise hopes.

Anti-property tax campaigners are planning to run dozens of candidates in next year’s local elections to wrest power back from the main political parties.

The stats men are back this weekend. Huddled over their Ipads and laptops in the stands, the shadowy figures bearing an uncanny resemblance to members of Kraftwerk.

WHILE they may not have registered a beep in recent newspaper polls and look highly unlikely to make up a quota on Friday, the People’s Convention (CPPC), who are fielding four election candidates in Cork, say this Friday’s election is only the first step in their long-term plan.

THE chairman of the West Waterford GAA Board last night joined the increasingly large number of people who want the International Rules series scrapped.