The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has described a firebomb attack on a prison officer’s car in Cork over the weekend as deeply “disturbing and sinister”.

A former lord mayor of Cork has launched a scathing attack on some outspoken opponents of the city boundary extension, accusing them of damaging the region’s reputation and likening some to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy has said he did nothing wrong in appointing a failed party election candidate as his ministerial driver — claiming being an ex-politician should not stop someone from gaining work.

Eighteen former lords mayor of Cork have expressed “profound concerns” about the possible abolition of the city council as part of a major overhaul of the region’s local government structures.

18 lord mayor have set aside party politics to unite against a super council and to spark public debate, says Eoin English

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Labour’s Catherine Clancy, was the most high-profile casualty in the city’s local elections carnage as her party was annihilated.

The Government has been urged to provide special emergency funding to repair one of Cork’s greatest landmarks.

Cork’s city councillors have forced through several strategic changes to a major blueprint that will guide development in the busy Mahon suburb for the next 20 years.

President Michael D Higgins is to get the Freedom of Cork despite severe criticism that the honour has become mired in politics and is being given out too often.

Parents fighting to prevent the closure of a historic Cork school are taking their campaign on to the streets.

Repairs to the stalled clock mechanism in Cork’s landmark Shandon church are due to get under way within weeks.

City councillors have called for several quick-fix measures to be introduced to minimise flood risk in Cork while the city waits for a €50m flood defence scheme.

Cork’s City Hall is being turned in to a “bunker” for next week’s city council budget meeting amid fears of disruption by protesters, it was claimed last night.

Cork’s city councillors are to be asked to consider moving the portrait of former lord mayor John Murray from a prominent location in City Hall after his sexual assault conviction.

Former justice minister Nora Owen has said she was “offended” by the description of her ancestor Michael Collins as a “langer” in the official Rebel Week programme.

New procedures were agreed last night to ensure protestors cannot force the abandonment of Cork City Council meetings again.

There have been calls for urgent action to improve the condition of Cork’s landmark Daly’s Bridge — known to generations as the Shaky Bridge.

A councillor who wants to regulate busking in Cork by introducing a dress code, a curfew, and a minimum 20-song rule has been branded a “killjoy”.

A politician’s family home should be off limits to anti- property tax and water charge protests, Sinn Féin’s deputy leader has said.

A leading figure in the Cork anti-property and water tax campaign has distanced the movement from claims that they plan to take their fight to the family homes of government politicians.

An outspoken city councillor has branded some of the members of Cork’s anti-property and water tax campaign as “blathering loudmouths” who need to “put up or shut up”.

Tensions have emerged over plans to confer the freedom of Cork on three people this year — the highest ever number of recipients in a single year.

An outspoken Fianna Fáil councillor who lost the party whip on Cork City Council for refusing to vote for the council’s 2012 budget has rejoined the party group.

Banning cars from Cork’s main street as part of a major new traffic plan will improve the city’s vibrancy, promote economic development, and encourage further investment, the city manager said last night.

Reversing cuts to libraries and community groups will be a priority if certain household tax compliance targets are met, Cork’s city manager has said.

Cork City Council has become one of the largest local authorities to back a national campaign to make the buying of sex illegal.

One of the country’s highest paid lords mayor last night volunteered a 10% pay cut as €1.2m in sweeping cutbacks across Cork City Council’s services were unveiled.

I Need You avoided a step up in grade after winning his maiden sprint here earlier in the month and Joe O’Callaghan’s pup rates the nap selection to follow up in tonight’s third race.

Golfers Tiger has got to be the selection in tomorrow night’s final of the Thursday A6 Stake final, though there is one minor concern for Johnny Linehan’s bitch.

A family link to the Famine will bring almost 300 people together for the first time this weekend in Cork.

Large parts of Cork City are now “uninsurable” due to the spate of flooding incidents in recent years — the most recent of which occurred just over a week ago.

A €50m town planned for the outskirts of Cork could decimate the city’s falling population, it has been claimed.

A proposal to scrap a prayer at the start of a local authority meeting sparked an unholy row last night.

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

A DEVELOPER has been cleared to lodge a planning application for a €41 million supermarket near an ecologically sensitive site on Cork’s northside which straddles the city-county boundary.

CORK’S city councillors are to consider proposals to slash development levies by 50% in an effort to stimulate construction.

I WANT to commend Cllr Pa O’Driscoll (Letters, August 25), for taking what might be a brave move and pointing out the madness of the call of fellow Fine Gael colleague Cllr Joe O’Callaghan to ban the burka.

I WOULD like to challenge Councillor Joe O’Callaghan to produce official figures showing that in Britain today “hundred of thousands of people are floating around in burkas.” I live in Holland, which currently has one and a quarter million Muslims (1,219753 by 2011 statistics, to be exact).

I FAIL to see why Cllr Joe O’Callaghan deems it necessary or desirable for the Minister for Justice to ban the wearing of the burka in public places (News, August 19).

I AGREE completely with Cork Councillor Joe O’Callaghan’s motion to outlaw the wearing of burkas.

WITH reference to “Cork city councillor calls for ban on burkas and hoodies” (Examiner, August 19) I would like to present some food for thought in an era where multiculturalism is under threat abroad from a discourse devoid of any complexity; demonstrated here by Joe O’Callaghan’s call for a liberation of Muslim women.

FORMER lord mayor Joe O’Callaghan has made a call for the banning of the burka and of the hoodie.

IT is not clear why Cork city councillor Joe O’Callaghan has chosen to lob a political grenade into the public domain at this point.

THE most senior Muslim cleric in Ireland has said there is nothing in his religion that states a woman has to have her face fully covered.