There are no immediate plans to ease the on-street parking regime in Douglas village in the wake of the weekend fire which destroyed a 1,000-space carpark and closed a shopping centre.

Cork City Fire Brigade has released the first images this morning showing the extent of damage caused by last night’s huge blaze in a multi-storey car park in Douglas.

A GP on Cork’s northside is set to be elected Lord Mayor of the expanded city tomorrow night even as last-minute talks on a voting deal continue.

Talks on who will become the next Lord Mayor of Cork were already underway even as the last two candidates took their seats with just a single vote separating them following a recount.

Fianna Fáil is on course to retain its position as the largest party on Cork City Council with Fine Gael a close second after the “green wave” swept Sinn Féin aside over the weekend.

There is going to be a large number of new faces in Cork’s County Hall after the local election counts are completed and their appearance may well alter the balance of power within the local authority.

Tough choices will have to be made to allow delivery of a landmark €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area which includes a €1bn tram system and a €700m plan to upgrade the bus, rail, and bike networks.

In the final of a five-part series, Kevin O’Neill profiles the competitive Cork City South-East constituency.

Retail giant Lidl wants to build apartments as part of a new scheme on a site in a Cork suburb where its previous shop-only plan was shot down.

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

Resentment is being caused in communities in Cork county as people, residing up to 70km away, are edging out locals on a waiting list for council houses.

There has been a call to suspend the implementation of new cemetery bylaws in County Cork until councillors are given the opportunity to debate them again amid fears they will cause considerable distress to some families.

Controversial plans for a €3.5m greenway in Cork harbour were narrowly passed by members of the county council after fears were raised that elderly walkers could be blown away “like skittles” by cyclists.

Defensive walls, river channel widening and deepening, new bridges and culverts will form part of a €12m project planned for flood defences in two Cork suburbs.

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.

Cork County Council is to write to the Government urging it to subsidise broadband providers in West Cork because the chronic lack of such facilities is severely hampering business development in the region.

Members of the public may be asked to volunteer as safety wardens outside a number of schools in Cork county.

County councillors have voted unanimously to notify Bord Pleanála of their total opposition to Indaver Ireland’s plan to build a €160m incinerator in Cork harbour.

Residents in local authority housing are afraid to report their neighbours’ antisocial behaviour for fear of reprisals, members of the largest council in the country have claimed.

Cork county councillors have been lobbied by a developer to review the zoning of a parcel of land on the city’s outskirts to pave the way for the first phase of a multimillion-euro science park.

Overhanging branches on roadside trees has led to haulage companies, nursing the costs of damages, threatening not to deliver to certain areas in Co Cork.

Start-up businesses planning to take over vacant premises in Co Cork could benefit from a proposal to receive rate rebates over a three-year period.

The upturn in the economy may help 5,000 people living in unfinished estates even more than legal threats against financial institutions which have an obligation to complete works to them.

Cork County Council could be set to take on a greater role in helping victims of domestic violence after hearing from a councillor who said she was a victim herself.

Cork County Council is preparing to take eight legal cases against AIB because the bank has refused to release insurance policies it holds on developers who have not finished off ghost estates.

Cork County Council has spent nearly €10m in four years promoting tourism and is aiming to do more to aid the industry.

Some may say it’s barking mad, but dog owners in Co Cork could become the first in the country to be fined for not clearing up their pet’s poo if a new DNA database is introduced by the local authority.

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.

Over 40% of home seekers on a Cork County Council waiting list are separated or divorced.

A number of further estates could have their roads, footpaths, public lighting, water and sewerage taken in charge by Cork County Council this year.

A 68-year-old man was being treated for a stab wound in hospital last night after being attacked by a burglar who had broken into his home in the Cork suburb of Douglas.

Cork County Council is considering 30kph speed limits in more than 1,000 residential estates. However, it will prioritise 40 estates for the restrictions where children and other pedestrians are most at risk.

Politicians rarely come up smelling of roses — but some Fine Gael councillors have left a colleague near-breathless.

Fianna Fáil have regained control of Cork County Council for the first time since 1991 after cobbling together a loose coalition with seven of the 10 Independents and two Labour councillors.

A local authority is putting its hands up and admits to not having an estimated €50m to repair crumbling footpaths.

Despite pleas from three councillors, there will be no relaxation in pay parking bylaws in a Cork suburb any time soon.

Only adults accompanying children 12 years of age or younger will be allowed into playgrounds in Co Cork as part of an attempt to prevent paedophiles hanging around such amenities.

Independents and Sinn Féin are likely to be the biggest winners come next year’s local elections in Co Cork.

Councillors have called for an urgent overhaul of pothole repair rules to make it easier for workers to respond to the national pothole crisis.