Cork County Council has granted conditional planning permission for a Lidl supermarket in Douglas that had a previous application rejected by An Bord Pleanála.

Cork county councillors have urged their officials to look at the possibility of buying a dockyard to stimulate urban regeneration.

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.

New ‘code-of-conduct’ signs are to be erected shortly on a greenway on the outskirts of Cork City amid fears more pedestrians could be knocked down by cyclists.

New council houses built in Cork will be designed to be disability-friendly, or easily adaptable should somebody become infirm or suffer a life-changing accident.

They were praised for selfless acts during Storm Ophelia and during Storm Emma, but fears have been raised about the declining number of Civil Defence volunteers in Cork city and county.

Cork County Council may use grass cuttings from verges and its unused land stock as biofuel to provide power to houses.

As the ‘Beast from the East’ fast approaches, Cork County Council is not only preparing for polar conditions but is also worried about the cost as the Government does not properly reimburse it for the damage such weather events can cause.

Cork County Council wants Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to create a national emergency committee to tackle the housing crisis — one which will act with the same urgency which addressed the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the North in 2001.

Beach-friendly facilities for wheelchair users are being considered by Cork County Council.

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

Not one of the 205 people taken on by Cork County Council through the government’s Gateway scheme got permanent employment with the local authority.

Fears have been raised that too many people are building houses in Co Cork and then seeking planning retention after they have completed construction.

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 is to call on the Housing Agency to seek a solution to an issue which has seen half of one of the country’s largest commuter towns excluded from rent control legislation.

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.

Staffless libraries could soon be introduced in Cork county, despite reservations by some elected representatives.

There will be no reprieve for council tenants in Co Cork on plans to increase their rents despite claims the hike might be illegal.

Cork County Councillors are to write to different agencies and Government departments to try to fast-track the building of a 5,000-home new town to alleviate the housing crisis.

Over €4.6m was spent by Cork County Council employing outside consultants last year, with more than half of that going on hiring experts to plan new roads.

An application is to be prepared by Cork County Council for a special government infrastructure grant which could dramatically ease traffic jams in one of the country’s largest commuter towns.

The remains of one of Ireland’s finest Georgian villas could face demolition after it was gutted in a suspected arson attack.

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