The Mayor of County Cork has offered to act as an honest broker to ensure the GAA holds the Liam Miller memorial fundraiser in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Considering that the average household has 17 part-used cans of paint lying about, a local authority is anxious to get them recycled so they can be used by charities and community groups.

Significant Government investment is needed in Cork to build more dedicated bus lanes to speed up journey times which are grinding to a snail’s pace at peak hours.

The way the latest boundary extension story was leaked, compounded by repeated delays of a meeting to discuss its fallout, seriously angered many county councillors, writes Sean O’Riordan.

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.

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

A formal proposal by Cork County Council to extend the city boundary would leave it with a revenue deficit of €8.6m annually, considerably less than a near €50m per year loss if the Mackinnon report recommendations are implemented.

The Taoiseach and two government ministers have been warned they face a grassroots revolt over controversial plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

“If this document was produced under British rule, it would have brought about revolution, and it should. This is a diktat we can’t accept.”

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.

A local authority has been told to get tough on contractors who delay the refit of vacant county council houses.

County council officials in Cork are receiving near-daily reports of increased infestation of an invasive plant that can destroy buildings.

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 Council is preparing bylaws to control casual trading in towns, but may not be able to control it on country roads.

Plans have been drawn up to turn Co Cork into a premier destination for walkers in the hope of boosting tourism revenue.

A ‘supercouncil’ to cover all of Cork looks to be on the cards after the majority of Cork county councillors said they were in favour of such a move.

Newly formed municipal districts in Co Cork will have the power to decide on introducing or axing pay-parking, but doing the latter will see them lose funding from Cork County Council.

An extensive fish rescue operation following the partial collapse of an historic weir at Ballincollig Regional Park has resulted in up to 10,000 fish being saved.

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.

Local authority officials will introduce paid parking in 30 towns in Co Cork despite promises from Environment Minister Phil Hogan that councillors would have the power to decide.

The Government is being urged to raise the legal age for drinking spirits to 22 amid concerns youngsters bingeing on hard liquor will face serious health consequences in the future.

A new body is being set up to market the Cork region abroad for business and tourism which will combine the efforts of the city and county councils along with other major bodies.

Despite the economic downturn, Cork County Council took in €101.8m in rates last year, up more than €10m on what it collected in 2008.

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.

Fears have been expressed that thousands of voters in Cork could be disenfranchised after they received incorrect polling station information.

A local authority is to look at creating a database of everybody buried in its 285 cemeteries in an effort to promote genealogy tourism.

Wildlife will be “well looked after” as part of a €200,000 public allotments scheme being developed on grassland in a Co Cork park, the people driving the project insisted yesterday.

Cork county manager Martin Riordan has said his cash-strapped local authority cannot wave a magic wand and fix an estimated 140 unfinished estates overnight.

History is being made with the retirement of the last county engineer in the country — or as he put it himself, “The last of the Mohicans” .

As a mark of respect to an employee who was killed in a work accident, members of Cork County Council adjourned their meeting in County Hall yesterday after offering their sympathies to the deceased’s family.

Communities may soon be asked to literally give ‘a dig-out’ to a cash-strapped and under-manned local authority to maintain its rural roads.

Cork County Council successfully made claims against only two developers last year for not completing housing estate projects.

Just two out of the 31 Fine Gael and Labour councillors on Cork County Council are outwardly opposed to the planned septic tank charge and inspection regime, which has generated massive resistance across the county.

ELECTION candidates may soon be confined to putting up election posters in designated areas of Co Cork.

Cork County Council and Dublin City Council are the big spenders, but the overall cost has been reduced, writes Orla Walsh.

FORMER FG national executive member Áine Collins secured a Dáil seat at her first attempt and pledged job creation will be the party’s priority.

IN a hare-footed flesh-pressing exercise around a Cork shopping mall, interrupted briefly by an alarm bell, Enda Kenny had his own Winona moment.

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

WATER tankers had to be deployed in parts of Cork’s western suburbs as work continued on repairing a ruptured trunk main which connects the city with the Inniscarra dam.

Relatives of 329 people killed in the Air India bombing off the south-west coast of Ireland were gathering today to mark the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.

PREPARATIONS are under way for the arrival in Kinsale and Cork city next month of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race for its first stopover in Europe since it departed Britain last September.

CORK county councillors were yesterday told they have no powers to prevent head shops setting up next to schools as the planning system was not geared “to deal with moral issues.”

Another €16.5m has been allocated to local authorities towards the cost of the clean-up operation following record flooding.

An expert on Ireland’s version of Alcatraz today called for the former off-shore prison to be transformed into a national famine memorial.