Cork county councillors have lodged an 11th-hour objection to plans by Indaver to build incinerators in Cork Harbour, and a local tourist body has done the same.

Every year as Ireland puts the clocks back one hour at the end of October, we hear the arguments why Ireland should drop daylight saving time or why we should even align with mainland Europe and adopt Central European Time (CET).

Athlete Sonia O’Sullivan is to travel from Australia to attend the unveiling of a lifesize sculpture dedicated to her in her Co Cork hometown later this month.

The chairman of a tourism organisation has been ferrying around some unusual visitors since they arrived in Ireland.

A Lusitania commemoration, postponed as a mark of respect to a husband and wife who died from stab wounds in a domestic incident, will take place next month.

Each year, as the clocks go back at the end of October, there are some who say we should drop daylight saving or that we should align with mainland Europe (CET). 

Cunard has announced it will host an exhibition of Lusitania memorabilia onboard a special cruise of the Queen Victoria cruise ship, which will be visiting Cobh next May to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the torpedoed liner.

A lifesize bronze statute of Ireland’s most famous female athlete is to be unveiled next August in her hometown.

The Port of Cork’s new €100m Ringaskiddy terminal expansion plan has several key differences to the scheme which was shot down six years ago, the company insisted yesterday.

A special memorial garden is to be opened in the Titanic’s last port of call to commemorate the 123 people who boarded tenders onto the ill-fated liner.

Flares were fired off the Cork coast to mark the end of year-long centenary commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic.

EDDIE ENGLISH, who runs a sailing school in Cobh, has no doubt about it: People in Cork city and county have a “chip on their shoulder” when it comes to his home town.

AFTER nearly 10 years in the dark, the magnificent Cobh Cathedral is to be illuminated again — at a fraction of the previous cost.

THE Lusitania liner took just under 20 minutes to sink off the coast of Cork 95 years ago this month, but the memory of the devastating loss of over 1,100 people continues to live on in Cobh where remembrance wreaths were placed on mass graves at a cemetery in the town yesterday afternoon.

CORK County Council is planning to develop walkways, landing areas and information boards as part of the first phase of developing Spike Island as a major tourist destination.

CONTRARY to what Taoiseach Brian Cowen thinks, it wasn’t the amount of money spent by Declan Ganley or Libertas that led to a resounding no vote in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

EVER since the Lisbon Treaty referendum was defeated, the Government has been buttering us up so we can be made to vote again on the same treaty.

THE ending of automatic entitlement to a medical card for people over 70 is mean-spirited. The people who are now over 70, or approaching it, have lived in very hard times.

PEOPLE living in Cobh, Co Cork are planning a right royal send-off to the world’s most famous cruise liner when she departs the harbour town tomorrow.

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s willingness to have schools built under a lease and buy-back agreement with builders shows further flawed thinking by the Government.

THE opposition parties have claimed our economy is on “auto-pilot” following the release of the latest jobless figures.

I FEEL the whole energy and global warming debate in Ireland, and our response to it, displays a complete lack of joined-up logical thinking.

RECENTLY I attended a conference in Cobh, Co Cork, entitled ‘Spike Island: Hidden History. An Opportunity in Tourism’.

I AM delighted Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin has described the redevelopment of the Irish Ispat site on Haulbowline as a ‘unique opportunity’.

I FEEL the Government decision to build a new prison on Spike Island is flawed.