There may be good news for people who earn too much to qualify for social housing, but too little to buy their own home.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for a drought-stricken village and for a community where women have had their hair turned green by the water supply.

Anglers and conservationists throughout Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford were joined by watersports clubs at the weekend to protest the damage to a salmon weir and the risks to migratory fish on the famed Blackwater River.

Dog walkers in Co Cork could face on-the-spot fines if caught without poop bags and may be named and shamed if they don’t clean up after their pets.

Cork County Council officials are exploring creating dog-free walking areas in towns and villages in an attempt to cut down on dog fouling.

Lack of infrastructural investment is impacting on the “vitality and viability” of rural communities in Co Cork, a senior planning official has warned.

A debate has opened up over who should be honoured by having stands named after them at the €70m revamped Pairc Ui Chaoimh.

County councillors have reacted angrily to news that plans to create a proper water supply to a drought-stricken village have been delayed yet again.

A decision made in the late 1960s to allow farmers purchase a former railway line which ran through North Cork could hold up plans to turn it into a greenway walking and cycling route.

Cork County Council has said it will be difficult to take legal action against people who put household waste, old cars and car tyres into bonfires, because in most cases they are minors.

Cork County Council has written to furniture giant, Ikea, urging it to locate its first store outside of Dublin at one of three potential sites in North Cork — one of which was a former army barracks.

Plans for a multimillion-euro revamp of an important weir on the River Blackwater in Cork have been put on hold until May, at the earliest, much to the concern of councillors and anglers.

The HSE is being asked to guarantee that a ward closure in a community hospital in north Cork will be temporary and not permanent, as some county councillors fear.

People living in a North Cork village are objecting to Irish Water’s plans to connect their homes to a new water system, due to concerns over the quality of the supply.

Another sibling has joined the ranks of Cork County Council following the recent elections to the Dáil and Seanad.

Councillors have pleaded with Transport Initiative Ireland (TII) not to completely close a main road in North Cork for realignment and resurfacing as it could kill off businesses in two villages.

Of the six newcomers co-opted onto Cork County Council, three are siblings of councillors elected to the Dáil.

Innovative students have developed a road safety board game that could help save lives.

There were no little old ladies dashing about with fresh cuts of altar flowers.

FROM nine to 99, the small Cork village where Ireland prop Mike Ross was born has gone rugby crazy ahead of Saturday’s crunch Rugby World Cup quarter-final clash against Wales.

TWO protests. Hundreds of angry voices.

MICROBIOLOGISTS at a Dublin hospital have detected a new outbreak strain of a highly antibiotic-resistant superbug which can have fatal consequences.

A Donegal man has been convicted of killing his friend in a dangerous driving incident in Co Louth in which several witnesses said he appeared asleep as he drove on the wrong side of the road.

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