A local authority is putting its hands up and admits to not having an estimated €50m to repair crumbling footpaths.

A new body is being set up to market the Cork region abroad for business and tourism which will combine the efforts of the city and county councils along with other major bodies.

The country’s largest local authority is considering bringing in private contractors to fill in its potholes because it can’t cope with the workload.

Youghal Town Council is to get €280,000 to restore the storm-damaged boardwalk.

The eastern part of Co Cork suffered most from flooding and storm damage and with high tides peaking during morning rush-hour yesterday, there was chaos for commuters.

Cork County Council is committing €1m towards footpath restoration projects.

A local authority is planning to reinstate a €220,000 boardwalk that was destroyed by storms earlier this month.

Councillors have expressed safety fears about part of an east Cork seaside town after a second section of sea wall was declared unsafe only 12m from where a previous portion collapsed last year.

A local authority is to look at creating a database of everybody buried in its 285 cemeteries in an effort to promote genealogy tourism.

Cork County Council has announced that work will commence in the next few weeks to repair a collapsed section of coastal road.

A man who founded a renowned marine research station has been honoured for his contribution to life in Co Cork.

It’s a two horse race to become the next mayor of Co Cork, according to sources within Fine Gael which has control over the county council.

Cork, the country’s largest coastal county, has lost four of its blue flag beaches.

Eight south Cork food and drink companies estimate that they gained a collective €500,000 in new UK sales from their attendance at the IFE 2013 food and drinks fair in London.

A county councillor who has lost seven cattle to starvation this spring believes many farmers, worse off than himself, may take their lives if the fodder crisis is not addressed quickly.

A campaign against a sludge plant on the River Blackwater in east Cork accepting hazardous waste was justified following a Bord Pleanála ruling, a community action group has said.

Cork’s county manager Martin Riordan has defended a controversial decision to employ a private debt collection company to recoup €1.8m owed to the county council in refuse collection charges.

Postcards depicting streetscapes 100 years apart are to be given free to people in Co Cork as part of an attempt to attract the diaspora back to the county for The Gathering.

Three new players have been called up for Cork’s challenge game against UCC tonight at the Mardyke.

Cork County Council is losing at least €350,000 a year in rental income because it isn’t repairing its vacant homes fast enough.

As part of the Gathering 10,000 one-to-one meetings with hundreds of international businesses are set to take place next year at the CorkMeet in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

Farmland damaged during recent river flooding in East Cork is still under review by local authorities, but requests for reinforcements must compete with housing for scarce resources.

As a mark of respect to an employee who was killed in a work accident, members of Cork County Council adjourned their meeting in County Hall yesterday after offering their sympathies to the deceased’s family.

Gardaí, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and Cork County Council are set to launch separate investigations after a worker died after being hit in the head by a pole which was felled by a digger.

Cork County Council is writing to the Taoiseach asking him to allow local authorities the money and power to ensure further services are not lost to rural areas.

The National Roads Authority is to be asked to designate the Midleton-Whitegate road in Co Cork as a primary route due to its strategic importance to the nation’s energy needs.

Youghal Town Council is to complain to An Bord Pleanála over a planning decision delay of almost a year which it claims is stifling investment in the town.

In a true example of cultural exchange, a team from Maryland in the US tried their hands at hurling in Cork City’s Mardyke arena yesterday to herald a series of agreements between the two cities.

Seven beaches in Co Cork have reopened after the latest test results showed a significant fall in E.coli levels.

Confusion reigned yesterday as lifeguards warned swimmers not to bathe at seven beaches in Co Cork, despite test results showing they were within permissible EU levels for the bacteria E.coli.

Seven Cork beaches closed after a swimming ban was imposed last week due to excessive levels of E.coli will find out this evening if tests will clear them to reopen.

There have been renewed calls for a new sewage treatment plant for Youghal in Co Cork following the E.coli outbreak which has closed seven beaches.

Three designated Blue Flag beaches are among seven bathing spots in Co Cork where dangerous levels of E.coli have been found.

A commemorative ceremony has been held at Castlemartyr Resort in East Cork to honour the life and achievements of a local horticulturist who landscaped parts of the White House in Washington DC.

The vroom of powerful engines will be heard in East Cork next week as more than 300 owners of Honda Goldwing motorcycles from all over Europe hold a major gathering.

Cork County Council is to receive €200,000 from the Department of Transport to carry out emergency stability work on a collapsed sea wall in an East Cork town.

A month after flash flooding wreaked havoc on this house, its residents are still using buckets to capture the water pouring into their home.

The crumbling wreck of the Tit Bonhomme was barely visible to relatives who revisited the tragic site at Adam Island yesterday.

The Office of Public Works has rejected pleas to repair a collapsed sea wall.

Two Fine Gael councillors have been elected mayors of Cork City and county.

An action group has claimed a success in ensuring a largely populated east Cork town will retain its ambulance service.

A town that lost blue flag recognition at two of its three beaches for environmental breaches has been sanctioned for two new multimillion-euro schemes.

Street and beach cleaning may be outsourced by Cork County Council as officials “toy with the idea” of concentrating more outdoor staff into maintaining 12,000km of roads, parts of which are in a serious state of deterioration.

YOUGHAL Community Hospital faces bed closures in the coming months, due to a reduction in its 2012 budget and an embargo on staff recruitment.