The Cork city councillor whose dramatic high-speed pursuit led to the capture and eventual jailing of a notorious Dublin-based house break-in gang has launched a Neighbourhood Watch- style text service.

A trade union has expressed serious concerns about a local authority’s plans to lease some of the vacant social houses it can’t afford to repair to voluntary housing agencies who could do the work.

Cork’s city manager has defended the sale price of public land to facilitate the GAA’s €40m revamp of Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

IT’S the three-year traffic lights fiasco that is set to cost taxpayers over €230,000.

POLITICIANS have united to oppose college students’ plans for a “daytime alcohol bingeing fiasco” which wreaked havoc in a Cork suburb last year.

FINE Gael has for the first time become the largest party on Cork City Council, ending decades of Fianna Fáil dominance.

BOUNDARY changes have thrown the race in this former five-seat ward wide open with the Green Party and Sinn Féin set to battle it out for the new sixth seat.

ALLSTAR Nicholas Murphy returns to the Cork team for Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Dublin at Parnell Park.