County councillors who want to take control of parking away from a private company will have to wait until December 16 to see if council management will veto their proposal.

Cork County Council is to seek expert advice and ask ComReg officials to address it after concerns were raised about the safety of 5G digital cellular networks.

A meeting of the Cobh Municipal District Council heard a proposal from Cllr Sinead Sheppard that the local authority do everything in its power to make the town more inclusive for autistic people and their families.

Cork County Council bosses have been asked to use its Economic Development Section to come up with some kind of support or compensation package for businesses which suffer financial losses during major infrastructure works.

Relatives of patients in a cash-strapped community hospital which provides 24-hour nursing care have called on its board to make a statement amid funding fears.

Minister for Health Simon Harris has been called on to act immediately to address the financial crisis at a community hospital in order to ensure it remains open.

A statue of Cork boxer Jack Doyle is to be erected in Cobh after councillors voted to approve the proposal at their meeting yesterday.

Alan O'Connor (35) who worked in the Natural History Collections at the National Museum in Dublin, had just completed a teacher training course.

There is going to be a large number of new faces in Cork’s County Hall after the local election counts are completed and their appearance may well alter the balance of power within the local authority.

The city boundary extension will remove nearly all of Glanmire from the former Glanmire-Cobh municipal district.

The planning watchdog has shot down proposals to establish a new walkway at the historic final boarding point for the Titanic.

Those who held a protest against the Port of Cork's closing of a supposed public right of way for the arrival of Cobh's first cruise liner of the year have been urged to ditch their placards for the sake of the town's tourism industry.

The owners of the cross-river ferry service in Cork harbour have told Cork County Council they don't believe it's economically viable to put on a second ferry at peak evening times.

Cork County Council is to examine if it has the power to grant a rates rebate to businesses seriously affected by roadworks, rather than seeking approval from the Government for such a move.

Schools in Cobh are to be asked to allow tourists to use their car parks over the summer months amid fears that the harbourside town will not be able to cater for an expected increase in visitor numbers.

Councillors are warning that a proposed multi-million euro housing development cannot proceed in an already traffic-congested town without an advance major upgrade of a seriously inadequate road infrastructure.

Landowners will face legal action if they fail to chop down hundreds of potentially dangerous trees along one of the most scenic roads in Cork.

Cork city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

Plans are being drawn up to ensure future weather storms will not trap people in a famed seaport town.

Plans are being drawn up to ensure future weather storms will not trap people in a famed seaport town.

Calls have been made to reactivate a campaign to get island designation for Cobh, so it could be eligible for grants to improve its connectivity.

After the great storm, the big clean up. As crews start to work around Co Cork, much of the fallout from Storm Ophelia will centre on the Cobh area.

Homeowners in Co Cork will not have to pay increased Local Property Tax (LPT) next year after the majority of councillors voted to maintain the status quo.

A row has broken out over where an anchor from a scuttled gun-running ship should be displayed.

Nearly 30% more suspected drink-drivers have been arrested in Cork city and county in the past three months compared to the same period last year.

Cork County Council should be fixing its entire 12,000km road network every 20 years but, due to government cutbacks, can only afford on average to do restrengthening once every 55 years and resurfacing once every 39 years.

More than 200 motorists contacted Cork County Council about the costs incurred from hitting pot- holes in one area of Co Cork, and there are fears that more damage could be inflicted on vehicles because roads are not being properly repaired after watermain leaks.

An environmental lobby group is warning that cutbacks or delays to the proposed clean-up of a toxic waste dump in Cork Harbour would breach a legal agreement between Ireland and the European Commission (EC).

The OPW is being urged to allow some funding to be released to Cork County Council engineers so that they can carry out interim prevention works to ease tidal flooding.

County councillors have voted unanimously to notify Bord Pleanála of their total opposition to Indaver Ireland’s plan to build a €160m incinerator in Cork harbour.

Councillors want to enlist the support of GPs working in a part of Co Cork in an effort to force the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to provide better emergency cover for the local population.

Cork county councillors have lodged an 11th-hour objection to plans by Indaver to build incinerators in Cork Harbour, and a local tourist body has done the same.

Nearly half of all off-licences targeted in a sting operation by gardaí in Cork City sold alcohol to minors.

Cork county councillors have asked the County Hall executive to provide financial expertise to help elected members get to grips with the annual budget.

Cork County Council hopes to secure advance funding from the Department of Environment to build new roads and bridges which will open up two adjoining sites in East Cork for major development.

Voluntary dog wardens armed with the power to issue on-the-spot fines could be used in the battle against dog fouling in Co Cork.

Cork has three garda chief superintendents but, under new guidelines issued by the departments of justice and environment, only two will in future be allowed to sit on the county’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC).

A defiant mother of three who was arrested for the first time yesterday for blocking meter installation has vowed to continue protesting.

Rail commuters may have fares reduced on the Cork-Cobh and Cork-Midleton lines if Iarnród Éireann fails to introduce, by next month, new technology to accept Leap card transactions.