A FIANNA FÁIL politician paid for her own flights and expenses on a city council-led delegation to China, it emerged last night.

Electronic components company Flextronics is cutting its Cork workforce by 130 staff, it was announced today.

CORK CITY COUNCIL has spent almost €37,000 of public money over the last two years on seven official trips to Shanghai — its highest profile twin city.

A CRISIS meeting to tackle antisocial behaviour in Cork city will take place in September.

A CRISIS meeting has been called to tackle antisocial behaviour in Cork city amid fears that inter-family violence in some areas could result in a death.

PEOPLE convicted of illegal dumping in Cork could be named and shamed as part of a new crackdown.

ON FRIDAY, young mother Jessica Prendergast celebrated her son’s first birthday, just weeks after moving back to her native Cork city. Within hours, she was found stabbed to death and her blood-soaked mother had confessed to the killing.

YOUNG thugs who are pelting cars with missiles on one of Cork’s busiest roads are putting lives at risk.

POLITICIANS have united to fight controversial plans to build Cork’s second park and ride facility on a greenfield site on the city’s northside.

CORK’S city councillors voted against a controversial rezoning proposal last night preventing the development of a multi-million euro Lidl discount food store.

THE litter watchdog which branded parts of Cork’s north side as “blackspots” is planning to target those areas for clean-ups next year.

A MAJOR row erupted yesterday after suggestions that the Tricolour was deliberately hidden and a copy of the Proclamation of Independence removed from Cork’s City Hall for a twinning ceremony with Belfast City Council.

Eoin English