Cork county councillors are to ask the Government to reintroduce an incineration levy following a decision to grant Indaver planning permission for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is being urged to stop the Commissioner for Irish Lights (CIL) downgrading the range of beams emitting from the country’s most iconic lighthouse.

Forts and Martello towers dotted around Cork Harbour and what was once the biggest gunpowder factory in the British empire could soon be designated as Unesco World Heritage sites.

Many residents in Co Cork are experiencing excessive noise pollution as a monitoring agency lacks sufficient personnel to enforce legislation, described as “inadequate”.

Nine multinationals employing 5,000 people in a Cork town say they are “deeply frustrated” that the concerns of the local community were “ignored” by planners designing a new motorway.

A Cork councillor has started a petition calling for the retention of a public health centre that has been earmarked for closure, a move she said will force patients to take three connecting buses to reach their new centre.

Objectors to a proposed €180m motorway in Cork have been given less than three weeks notice to prepare a case against it.

Irish Air Corps concerns about the impact on helicopter safety of a proposed incinerator in Co Cork can be ameliorated if the company behind the application can guarantee it will contain any risk from the plume to within 150m of the stack.

Party celebrants could soon be faced with a fine if they launch balloons into the air in Co Cork, writes Sean O’Riordan of the Irish Examiner.

Party celebrants could soon be faced with a fine if they launch balloons into the air in Co Cork.

The future of one of the country’s iconic houses, which has been repeatedly damaged by vandals and arsonists, is likely to be decided shortly when consultants report to Cork County Council on how much it will cost to stabilise the building.

Dog owners will soon find it easier to be reunited with lost pets or to rehome a dog in need of a ‘forever home’ thanks to a new service which Cork County Council is helping to develop.

Heritage campaigners have backed calls for the fire-gutted remains of a listed Georgian villa to be taken into public ownership.

The embers of Tuesday’s fire at St Kevin’s have barely died away, but questions are still being asked in relation to another famous Cork building that went up in flames a year ago.

Cork County Council is demanding that An Bord Pleanála immediately release further information supplied to it by Indaver so objectors will have time to properly analyse it.

A county councillor is in the doghouse with some of his female colleagues following a suggestion that Men’s Sheds could be shared — with women.

Private housing estates should pay 35% less local property tax (LPT), because they do not receive the same services as estates looked after by local authorities.

Our passwords and credit card numbers are now easily available to cybercriminals, writes Caroline O’Doherty

A push is on to promote community amenities and recreational space in towns and villages in Cork to thereby attract new businesses into county areas.

"A POEM is always aware, for me, of what’s happening around it.”

“I think I’m going to cry, inspector” — this was just one of the interjections that lightened the weighty proceedings on day seven of An Bord Pleanála’s oral hearing into an application by Indaver Ireland to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

A finding by senior planning officials at Cork County Council (CCC) that a revised proposal for an incinerator in Ringaskiddy is within the rules has been described as “a blow, but not a show-stopper” by one of its staunchest opponents.

An oral hearing into proposals to build a massive incinerator in Cork Harbour is expected to take at least three weeks to complete.

The country’s largest local authority has been asked to explain why it has not used its power to deny new planning permissions to the developers of ghost estates.

The decision to award planning permission to the Port of Cork’s €100m redevelopment of Ringaskiddy harbour has been met with mixed reaction from local representatives in the area.

Cork County Council is preparing to declare war on Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant which can destroy houses and which has now established itself in several parts of the county.

The Port of Cork’s plans for a €100m redevelopment of its cargo-handling facilities at Ringaskiddy have been hit with a further delay.

One of the last surviving Irish D-Day veterans has dedicated the award of France’s highest honour to the lives of all those who took part in the landings.

One of the last surviving Irish D-Day veterans has dedicated the award of France’s highest honour to the lives of all those who took part in the landings.

A junior minister has told Cork County Council it must drop a ban on building industrial-scale incinerators which the local authority has included in a blueprint for future development.

Paul D'alton returned to his home in Rsocommon after 36 years abroad and it's brought him unexpected contentment. 

A Nama company is seeking judgment against two businessmen for a total of around €48.5m over unpaid loans advanced to them by the former Irish Nationwide Building Society.

One of the women behind the phenomenal 10-year local campaign to stop a 100,000-tonne incinerator being built at Cork Harbour is hoping to win a seat in tomorrow’s county council elections.

The mother of three who was murdered before her home was set alight was devoted to her children and to helping her community.

Members of Passage West Town Council are opposing the planned relocation of the Port of Cork from Tivoli to Ringaskiddy.

Conor Keane and David Clerkin

SHARES in Waterford Wedgwood fell by as much as 36% yesterday after the company’s finance director quit to become finance boss at AgCert International Ltd.

Luxury goods maker Waterford Wedgwood saw its FTSE share price tumble by as much as 30% today after its finance director resigned after less than a year.

THE Government drive to encourage women to breastfeed could be jeopardised if the Indaver Ireland proposal for a hazardous waste incinerator goes ahead in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

I WISH to respond to the letter from Marcia K D’Alton entitled Nature's Incinerator (Irish Examiner, August 20).