Donal O’Rourke will forever be remembered as the manager who oversaw Waterford’s first win in the All-Ireland senior camogie championship, but the Cappoquin man deflected all praise towards his players.

A Limerick fast food outlet where the Munster rugby team once celebrated by filling the Heineken Cup with its famous chips was at the centre of a legal maul yesterday during which a judge issued a red card to two insurance companies.

Youths aged 13 down to eight were engaged in a riot during which they burned down a barn owned by former Limerick hurler, Jimmy Carroll, a judge was told.

A 30-man brawl marred yesterday’s Waterford SHC third round game between Mount Sion and Dungarvan at Fraher Field. 

The US military cannot project military power in the global war on terror without the use of Shannon airport as it is currently configured, says a security expert.

O’Donovan Rossa (Antrim) 2-12Cappoquin (Waterford) 1-8: AIB All-Ireland Club IHC semi-final:

Joe Walsh, the former agriculture minister who was acclaimed as being equally at home in the parish hall or in the gilded buildings of Brussels, was laid to rest yesterday.

Fine Gael’s 23-year dominance on Cork County Council is at an end, with the race on to see if Fianna Fáil will do a deal with Independents and/or Sinn Féin to gain the balance of power.

Pay parking could be introduced in some Co Cork towns and abolished in others as new municipal districts are scheduled to replace town councils in June.

Most of the investors who purchased properties with rental guarantee agreements attached to the Doonbeg golf resort now “face ruin”.

Billionaire Donald Trump has not come to the rescue of a widow and other luxury suite owners at Doonbeg Golf Club who were left out of pocket by the collapse of the company.

Cork County Council is committing €1.2m of its reserves into repairing potholed roads, while it waits to see if the Government will reimburse it for the €2.27m worth of damage done to the roads since Storm Darwin on February 12.

A review of tendering procedures is to be carried out by Cork County Council following claims it is discriminating against some small builders.

Because of changes to a number of Co Cork’s electoral areas, there will be casualties among big-name councillors, and they’re more likely to be from Fine Gael, writes Sean O’Riordan

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.

Badly needed water and sewerage schemes worth tens of millions of euro in West Cork could be delayed because it is feared Irish Water will prioritise projects in urban centres.

A report says €75m is needed to bring the only main road in West Cork up to a reasonable standard — but at the current rate of government investment it will take several generations before this is achieved.

Over €1m of taxpayers’ money has been “wasted on a white elephant housing project” in Co Cork which an expert said should never have been contemplated in the first place, it has been claimed.

New coastal defences will have to be erected in Co Cork and existing ones strengthened if a repeat of the damage inflicted by the storms of early January are to be avoided.

Local Government Minister Phil Hogan will next week be urged to review a proposed cut to the number of county councillors representing West Cork.

Comments by Cork county manager Martin Riordan have fuelled further speculation that he is about to raise rates for the first time in five years and led to a major row between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Cork County Council has appointed a special investigator to sniff out the source of a foul smell which has plagued a popular tourist spot for the past two months.

The first increase in rates in Co Cork in five years could be on the cards.

Environmental scientists have been unable to pinpoint the source of a nauseating smell plaguing a top tourist town in West Cork.

A long-serving county councillor’s shock resignation was prompted by power being stripped from local authorities.

Local authorities are seeking to take control of a former GAA grounds that sold for €9m eight years ago but is now partly an “environmental eyesore” in a West Cork town centre.

Businesses in several Co Cork towns are likely to face a significant rise in their rates when town councils are abolished next year.

A YEAR after their lives were turned upside down by extensive flooding, residents and business owners across Cork still live in fear every time heavy rain is forecasted for their towns.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan is to be urged to halt a number of changes to the new local election boundary areas because it is claimed they will disenfranchise many people living in Co Cork.

County Cork VEC has been subjected to a far deeper probe of its tax affairs than previously thought.

A county councillor who has lost seven cattle to starvation this spring believes many farmers, worse off than himself, may take their lives if the fodder crisis is not addressed quickly.

Some businesses in Co Cork are getting free water because their connections to the mains have not been properly documented by the local authority.

Cork County Council officials are to write to the National Roads Authority (NRA) seeking funding to make safe a 1.2km stretch of road in West Cork which has been the scene of several fatal accidents in recent years.

Cork County Council is to examine the possibility of providing a grant to help start-up businesses pay their rates.

County manager Martin Riordan has promised Cork County Council won’t be found wanting when it comes to protecting the people of Bandon from further flooding.

Unless the Government provides emergency funds, the people of Cork will have to live with either pothole-ridden roads or flooded properties — or both — for years to come.

County councillors in West Cork are to meet with Inland Fisheries Ireland officials shortly to outline concerns that legislation protecting fish is putting people’s lives at risk.

Fears have been raised that flood prevention works planned for Clonakilty may drag on due to legal issues surrounding proposals to deliberately flood farmers’ land to protect the West Cork town.

Visits to recycling centres in Co Cork could become more costly if the private sector takes over their running.

Cork County Council has been left with “egg on its face” following a cock-up which resulted in notices about the household tax being addressed to people who are deceased.

Proposals by the Courts Service to transfer court sittings in Skibbereen, Clonakilty, and Kinsale to Cork City have been described as “wholly illogical, irrational”, and could leave the towns “under-policed”.

The OPW says its fast-tracking of the Clonakilty flood relief works will mean it will have “a preferred solution” finalised by next summer.

The Oireachtas committee on health is “to be thoroughly briefed” by councillors battling cutbacks to West Cork’s ambulances before it questions HSE officials on why they have reduced the service.

The people of a West Cork town flooded three times in the last three months are to get a new alert system.