Cork County Council is preparing bylaws to control casual trading in towns, but may not be able to control it on country roads.

Children from around the country have sent cards and gifts to the teenager with autism who was attacked by a gang of youths in Carrigaline, Co Cork, who then posted footage of the ordeal on social media.

Gardaí say they are aware of an alleged incident in which a boy was force-fed twigs and forced to expose himself.

Gardaí in Co Cork say they are aware of an alleged incident in which a group of teenagers force-fed twigs to a boy with special needs and forced him to expose himself.

Local authority officials will introduce paid parking in 30 towns in Co Cork despite promises from Environment Minister Phil Hogan that councillors would have the power to decide.

Independents and Sinn Féin are likely to be the biggest winners come next year’s local elections in Co Cork.

Councillors have called for an urgent overhaul of pothole repair rules to make it easier for workers to respond to the national pothole crisis.

Cork county manager Martin Riordan has said his cash-strapped local authority cannot wave a magic wand and fix an estimated 140 unfinished estates overnight.

Disabled people seeking council housing in Co Cork are almost ‘bottom of the pile’ in a priority list.

The Irish Red Cross has helped more than 40 Cork households affected by last month’s massive flood.

Concerns have been raised about the risks of a sunken First World War German U-boat off Cork being plundered.

NO casinos or gaming arcades can be opened in a Co Cork town after a local authority moved for the first time to rescind legislation on gambling.

EIGHT people have now died, four of them pedestrians, in a Christmas week of carnage on the country’s roads.

THE man who was gunned down in the hallway of his home in Co Cork yesterday was known to gardaí for his involvement in the drugs trade.

AS flood clean-ups got under way throughout Cork yesterday the ice returned, creating treacherous driving conditions which are likely to feature in the coming days as the cold snap once again takes a grip.

THE major talking points in this area centres on a split in Fianna Fáil which saw the unprecedented defection of Deirdre Forde to Fine Gael.

CORK motorists are subsidising drivers in the greater Dublin area and – to add insult to injury – they’ll have to endure even more potholed roads in the future, a council debate in Cork heard yesterday.

CORK County Council is to urge An Bord Pleanála to reject Indaver’s plans to build incinerators in Ringaskiddy capable of burning 300,000 tonnes per annum of municipal and hazardous waste.

DETAILED plans and Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) for a multi-million-euro road from Cork to Ringaskiddy are to be submitted to the board of the National Roads Authority (NRA) early next year.

PLANS are being drawn up to create a tourist attraction out of a fort built in Cork harbour in the late 1700s.

THE leader of the largest party in Cork County Council says public representatives should resign from the job if they don’t attend at least 75% of local authority meetings.

ANGRY county councillors are demanding that the Department of Education reveal how many children are being educated in prefabricated buildings in Cork.

THE public has been urged to “shop” litter louts dumping in rural areas.

THE days of people advertising cars for sale at the side of Co Cork roads are numbered, as the local authority is about to pass new laws that will see such vehicles seized and their owners facing hefty penalties.

A MAJOR crackdown is planned on private individuals trying to sell cars on the roadside.