A report has highlighted the crisis surrounding rising rents and lack of local authority houses in Cork city’s suburbs - leading to families fleeing larger urban areas to affordable rural locations to keep a roof over their heads.

Cork County Council has confirmed it handed over to Irish Water details of around 7,500 of its housing tenants.

Two Sinn Féin councillors who want to contest next year’s general election in Cork South Central will have to go head-to-head again after a selection convention ended in a draw.