Cork’s city councillors have rejected an invitation from the county for their chief executives to engage in “bilateral meetings” on the contentious city boundary extension issue.

They christened a bridge after Christy and bored a tunnel in the name of Jack, so surely it’s time to re-name the Inniscarra Dam in honour of the local legend, the most decorated player in GAA history?

It costs Cork County Council up to €16.50 for every person who “spends a penny” in a public toilet in Carrigaline.

Cork Chamber is stepping up its efforts to attract inward investment from Britain with a targeted London event for the city’s business leaders at the end of the month.

Lives are being put at risk as mobile phone coverage has become so poor in recent months in several parts of Cork county.

New trade, education, research and cultural links will be forged between Cork and another large Chinese city after a formal agreement was signed yesterday.

A man who has brought smiles to the faces of countless sick and deserving children was given a standing ovation by more than 250 guests as he was pronounced Cork Person of the Year.

Cork Airport is getting a €100,000 marketing boost after celebrating another string of route announcements yesterday.

The environment minister has given an expert group nine months to review the case for the first extension of Cork’s city boundary in 50 years.

The head of an Irish online anti-fraud firm, which has the potential to become a multi-billion euro business, has been named MSL Cork business person of the year.

A series of local authorities around the country have voted to cut their property tax rates next year.

People have started digging in after the first publicly developed allotment scheme in Cork was officially opened at the weekend.

Archaeologists have identified for the first time the full extent of a convicts’ mass grave on what was once a notorious concentration camp-style prison in Cork harbour.

Three new players have been called up for Cork’s challenge game against UCC tonight at the Mardyke.

“ONE long, beautiful, bountiful labour of love” — the words of retired sports journalist Michael Ellard at a function in Cork yesterday, summing a career extending over four decades with the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo.

MET Éireann is predicting the weekend will see the start of an albeit slight increase in temperatures and a slow thawing of the blanket of snow which has covered much of the country for the last week.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Innovation Batt O’Keeffe has quashed rumours that he will not be standing in the forthcoming General Election.

THOUSANDS of motorists got the opportunity to fly over the so-called ‘magic roundabout’ yesterday, thus avoiding one of the country’s most notorious bottlenecks.

Waste situation in Waterford has reached crisis point, writes South-East Correspondent Neans McSweeney.