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

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.

Cork city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

Resentment is being caused in communities in Cork county as people, residing up to 70km away, are edging out locals on a waiting list for council houses.

Homeowners in Co Cork will not have to pay increased Local Property Tax (LPT) next year after the majority of councillors voted to maintain the status quo.

The future of one of the country’s iconic houses, which has been repeatedly damaged by vandals and arsonists, is likely to be decided shortly when consultants report to Cork County Council on how much it will cost to stabilise the building.

Anti-British sentiment should be regarded as “racist” in the same way as anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish rhetoric, a Douglas-based county councillor has said

The lack of a children’s detention centre outside of Dublin is to be raised in the European Court of Human Rights by Cork County Council.

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.

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A local politician fears becoming homeless after his home was repossessed.

Cork county councillors have been lobbied by a developer to review the zoning of a parcel of land on the city’s outskirts to pave the way for the first phase of a multimillion-euro science park.

Cork County Council has been asked to contact Nama to request that the local authority is kept informed about any property sales in the docklands area in Cork Harbour.

A major new traffic and transportation study is to be conducted in one of the country’s busiest commuter towns in a bid to end gridlock.

The mayor of County Cork has announced his plans to contest the forthcoming general election in the Cork North-West constituency.

You’re hired! Former top dog in The Apprentice, Bill Cullen, is back in the car trade after opening a new showroom on Dublin’s Naas Rd.

JOE HARRIS knows more than most about despair. He knows, for instance, that losing your business will not just clean out your bank account.

THE leader of the Labour party last night called on the Government to restrict candidates’ spending in next year’s local elections.