Cork County Council has promised to look into hardship cases after a new rent system introduced for its tenants saw an 80-year-old man’s rent double overnight.

The trial of six men accused of falsely imprisoning the former Tánaiste Joan Burton has heard that the root cause of an escalation in the protest had to be "laid firmly at the door of gardaí".

Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and Councillor Michael Murphy are “intelligent men” who “should have just walked away” from the Jobstown anti-water charges protest, a garda has told their trial.

The Office of Public Works’ mapping of potential flooding in Cork county is seriously inaccurate in a number of locations, it has been claimed, forecasting “Noah’s Ark” extremes and paving the way for insurance companies to hike up cover or refuse it altogether.

An obstacle has been cleared for the amalgamation of the boys and girls national schools in Kanturk, Co Cork.

Developers will breathe a sigh of relief when EU-designation status to protect the freshwater pearl mussel in Co Cork is lifted.

A senior Garda refused to grant an Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor a permit for house-to-house and street collections in Dublin because she believed the money would be used for illegal acts, a court has heard.

Sinn Féin has been thrown into even more turmoil in the Cork East constituency following the resignation of one of its county councillors.

Millions of euro worth of land which Cork County Council was “forced to buy” remains idle, or is being let out to farmers from grazing livestock.

Leaking septic tanks on the outskirts of a town are a threat to drinking water supplies and the houses they serve should be connected to the mains sewer system, especially as €400,000 in development charges was collected to do the job.

Comments by Cork county manager Martin Riordan have fuelled further speculation that he is about to raise rates for the first time in five years and led to a major row between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Leaflets which have been distributed across Cork threatening to kill drug dealers by "lethal force".

WATERFORD City Council’s three electoral areas have been altered slightly, and renamed, for these elections.

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

THE taxpayer could be facing a e4 million legal bill because of a standoff between two state bodies in Cork over land.

WITH reference to Ailin Quinlan’s article, “Drive for funds to save tower ahead of winter” in your October 28 issue, I wish to make the following comments:

HISTORY was made yesterday when, for the first time, a paraplegic became a member of Cork County Council.

A CHARGE of monumental neglect of a rapidly expanding village has been levelled at Cork County Council.

Maverick independent TD Catherine Murphy will outline policy priorities honed over a 17-year local political career when she makes her maiden speech in the Dail on Tuesday.

Candidates vying for seats in Kildare North and Meath enter their final days of campaigning this week.

BUSINESS people and the mayor of Midleton have said they were terribly disappointed because discount supermarket Lidl opened for business during Robert Holohan’s funeral.

ANGRY rows broke out at two city council meetings last night as motions were passed calling on the Government not to release the killers of Garda Detective Jerry McCabe.