FIANNA FÁIL has been accused of abandoning a large swathe of west Cork by failing to replace one of its county councillors who resigned last summer.

A PASSENGER ferry link between the Irish south-west and Wales could be re-established in 2008.

THE ball hasn’t yet been thrown in, but already the first shots have been fired between Cork and Kerry in the battle for football supremacy — and the salvos have come from unusual sources.

CORK County Council plans to bypass the National Roads Authority in providing a relief route for one of the fastest-growing towns in the south-west.