BUSINESS owners and householders were left counting the cost yesterday as large parts of Mallow and Fermoy in Co Cork were under water after serious flooding.

COUNCILLORS on a HSE forum were astonished to be told to find out for themselves where cutbacks had been made and only then would senior health officials confirm or deny they had taken place.

MORE than 1,000 speed limits are set to be changed in Cork on local and regional roads.

CORK County Council is attempting to broker a deal between hauliers and the operators of a newly opened toll road after talks between the two sides broke down.

STANDING orders were suspended at a Cork County Council meeting yesterday, amid fears that a recent High Court ruling could jeopardise 500 BUPA jobs in Fermoy.

ANGER and surprise were expressed by local representatives and community leaders yesterday as they learnt that an army camp in North Cork could become the site of a €70 million prison.

CORK County Council is to examine proposals aimed at forcing developers to provide land free of charge for schools and graveyards.

IT could take at least five months before the speed limit on the former main road between Watergrasshill and Fermoy is increased from 80km/h to 100km/h.

ANGRY councillors claimed yesterday that motorists refusing to use the new tolled Fermoy bypass were being penalised after the speed limit on the former main road was dropped from 100km to 80km.

A 62-YEAR-OLD woman was seriously injured when she was crushed by a lorry in Fermoy yesterday.

DRINKING water in a Co Cork community could have been contaminated by illegal waste lagoons, which the European Court ordered should be closed 14 months ago.

THE Cork county manager has said he will personally investigate claims that an illegal waste dump in North Cork is still operating, more than a year after the European Court ordered its closure.

A MEMBER of the Health Service Executive who was told she couldn’t be screened for breast cancer until April 15, 2008, had an operation for ovarian cancer in February 2001 at the same hospital, it emerged yesterday.

THE astonishing revelation that a woman, who had undergone surgery for ovarian cancer, has been given a breast check appointment for 11.33am on Tuesday, April 15, 2008, is absolutely outrageous.

EXACTLY 15 years on, and gardaí and townspeople in Fermoy are still no closer to uncovering the reasons behind the mysterious disappearance of Conor and Shiela Dwyer.

NEARLY two years after Cork County Council adopted bylaws to crack down on drinking in public places, not one on-the-spot fine has been issued.

CONTROVERSIAL plans for Ireland’s first bio-diesel production plant have been approved despite the advice of a senior planner.

PROPOSALS to provide all fire stations in Co Cork with defibrillators have been put on hold until the findings of a Government taskforce are made known early next year.

A NUMBER of elderly and disabled people have been refused grant aid for essential repairs, because they proceeded with work after Cork County Council was forced to suspend a scheme in 2003, due to a shortage of funding from Central Government.

DETAILS of alarming cancer rates have led county councillors to call on Health Minister Mary Harney to open a 30-bed ward at Cork University Hospital for sufferers of the disease.

THE minister in charge of the Office of Public Works (OPW) could face being sued if his department fails to proceed immediately with a €20 million-plus flood relief scheme.

MICHAEL FLATLEY has been invited to talks with a county manager about his €30 million refurbishment of a stately home, amid fears he could drop the project after having some of the work turned down.