Councillors embroiled in contentious plans to sell a publicly owned landbank in Cork must agree the wording to seek legal advice before they can seek that legal advice.

Cork City Council has been threatened with legal action, exposing it to potential damages of up to €15m, over a second attempt to sell a publicly owned landbank for development.

Two West Cork men, who aren’t immediate neighbours but who own adjoining lands, were yesterday told by a judge “life is too short” to be at war with each other.

Cork needs to work to keep the IT professionals from Big Fish Games in the region to foster the growth of the technology sector, according to IT@Cork member John Dennehy.

A mainly all-Munster Irish boat angling team was pipped for gold in Wales and a Cork angler was top rod at the Home Nations deep sea angling fixture.

With the eurozone crisis showing no sign of letting up and the Irish economy receding in the last quarter, Brian O’Grady looks at what the current climate is like for start-up businesses seeking investment

IT’S nearing the final stretch in another gruelling run in a Cork South Central campaign for a candidate from Turner’s Cross.

THE geographical and past party ties of some candidates in Cork South Central could play a key role in how transfers decide the last one or two seats.

HOW times change. Micheál Martin has topped the poll in Cork South Central in three successive general elections — 1997, 2002 and 2007.

FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin has just over two weeks to save his party’s second seat on his own turf in Cork South Central.

IT MAY be headline news, the talk of political commentators and spin doctors, and the butt of jokes on Twitter.

CARBERY Group was crowned Company of the Year last night at Ireland’s largest corporate entertainment event outside of Dublin.

MICHEÁL MARTIN will lead Fianna Fáil into the February 2011 general election exactly 24 years after being rejected by the people of Cork South Central at his first attempt for a Dáil seat.

IN SPITE of being a local Fianna Fáil heavyweight since the 1980s, Batt O’Keeffe’s chances of taking a seat in Cork North West this time round were looking particularly precarious.

KATHY SINNOTT suggested a campaign had been orchestrated against her following the Lisbon treaty referendum defeat last summer, after losing her seat as an MEP to Labour’s Senator Alan Kelly last night.

TWO Fianna Fáil dynasties in Cork have been wiped out after the party lost four seats – almost half its representation – on the city council.

FINE Gael has for the first time become the largest party on Cork City Council, ending decades of Fianna Fáil dominance.

A RETIREMENT has made one thing certain – south central will have at least one new councillor after the elections.

BOGUS charity clothes collectors are stepping up their operations in the run-up to Christmas, with some householders receiving up to six flyers a week urging them to donate.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney was given the cold shoulder by SIPTU — for reportedly being “too busy” to discuss a recruitment embargo with the union’s nursing section.

THOUSANDS of people turned out to pay their respects to former MEP Gene Fitzgerald at his removal which took place yesterday evening.

ELECTION poster pranksters with a propensity for positioning pictures of beaming politicians in ditches, up poles and on gates in the dark of night are still at large.

A Cork man who stabbed his brother to death during a row at their family home has told Mr Justice Barry White he will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life.

FIANNA FÁIL’S Billy Kelleher was the first deputy to be returned to the Dáil in the four-seat constituency of Cork North Central yesterday evening.

The final seats that decide the balance of power in the 30th Dáil will come down to the crucial but volatile system of vote transfers.

Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath is set to be the success story of the election in Cork South Central.

THERE has been heavy betting on two General Election candidates in Cork North Central, one of whom entered the race at the last minute, according to Celtic Bookmakers.

THERE is no manual explaining how best to win votes.

FIANNA FÁIL number-crunchers do not believe Cork Airport’s debt will cost the party seats, and now say the party it will not cancel the debt before polling day.

FINE Gael insists it will win two seats in the crucial Cork South Central constituency, but won’t reveal the polling data it has to support that contention.

SIX votes: that was the margin by which sitting TD John Dennehy fended off the challenge of Independent Kathy Sinnott in the 2002 General Election.

Fianna Fáil could still hold three seats in the battleground constituency of Cork South Central, despite a 7% drop in the party’s vote, according to a poll in today's Evening Echo newspaper.

ONLY three Cork-based TDs are racing certainties to be re-elected to the next Dáil, according to a former minister — and bookmaker.

A SERIOUSLY-ill man who walked out of a hospital with a chest tube sticking out of his abdomen was found dead in a river a few hours later, an inquest heard yesterday.

FIANNA FÁIL members should not ignore the houses of “blueshirts” or “provos” when canvassing for votes, Junior Minister Brendan Smith told delegates.

A Fianna Fáil has backed down on his calls to reduce Cork airport’s debt by €20 million.

A NOISE survey is to be carried out along Cork’s main ring road to see if traffic noise levels are within EU limits.

The state should have bought a controversial site for Mountjoy Jail in a more business-like manner, the Dáil’s spending watchdog heard today.

A POLITICAL row blazed between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil yesterday over claims that the country’s biggest party will lose several seats in Cork in next year’s general election.

BOARD members at Cork Airport have been snubbed by the body appointed to investigate the airport’s multi-million euro debt controversy.

IRELAND’S multi-billion euro pension ‘nest egg’ is profiting from the arms trade and tobacco sales, TDs have warned.

I AM currently undertaking a study of the impact that the World War I had on Tipperary town and county.

THE public body charged with the strategic development of the south-west will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the controversial debt issue facing Cork Airport.

CORK Airport Authority could be landed with debts of €80 million as the Government prepares to row back on a commitment to leave the new authority debt-free.