A voluntary group driving efforts to save one of the country’s finest Georgian villas has made a public appeal to its wealthy US- based owner to live up to his responsibilities and help them with the ambitious project.

A city is to unveil its plans for a new “Central Park” on the site of a massive former dump.

A NEW voluntary group has called on Cork’s local authorities to unite to save an historic house and make it the centrepiece of a massive new super-park.