It is hoped that a transformed Cork Docklands can provide a sense of place for 25,000 people in the future, writes Catherine Shanahan

New policies for a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction in Cork city have been agreed as work finally starts on a 255-bed student apartment complex on a long-term derelict site.

Homeless families and children protested outside Cork City Hall last night before a council meeting in which a vacant industrial site was rezoned for housing and a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction was announced.

In-limbo traders of the fire-hit Douglas Village Shopping Centre in Cork have prepared

Students have been invited to help shape Cork’s climate change adaptation strategy which will be published today for public consultation.

A city rising, in places, but crumbling to the point of collapse in others.

The city of Cork will grow to nearly five times its size and increase its population by some 85,000 to 210,000 overnight as its historic boundary extension - the first since 1965 - takes effect at midnight.

If you don’t like change, you’ll hate irrelevance, the outgoing head of planning in Cork City has warned.

The Government has come under renewed pressure to bring in radical measures to tackle the housing crisis after the number of homeless burst past the 8,000 mark in July.

WATERFORD boasts massive, unexploited potential as a major hub for the financial services industry, a key economist has claimed.