Small businesses in Co Cork, especially those paying less than €3,000 annually in rates, are set get a reduction in the charge and also to benefit from a new fund set up encourage regeneration of some economically-decimated town centres.

Cork County Council has been left with “egg on its face” following a cock-up which resulted in notices about the household tax being addressed to people who are deceased.

FIANNA Fáil councillors walked out of a Cork County Council meeting amid a row over their treatment by members of the IMPACT trade union.

FIANNA FÁIL could lose up to five seats on Cork County Council, dropping its membership on the 48-seat local authority from 16 to a record low 11.

THE leader of Fianna Fáil in the country’s largest local authority has stopped using the party logo in public advertisements.

A FIANNA FÁIL TD is set to appear in the District Court after the results of a drink-driving test proved positive.

A DECISION by Fianna Fáil headquarters to select a former Independent to run alongside Deputy Denis O’Donovan in Cork South-West could lead to serious infighting within the party, it was warned last night.

CORK county councillors reacted furiously yesterday to proposals by City Hall manager Joe Gavin for a massive extension of the city boundary.

FEARS that the creation of a village could lead to the demise of one of the country’s leading agricultural colleges have been firmly scotched by its principal.