Nearly 4,400 family homes could be freed up for the rental market by 2020 under proposals by universities to add 10,000 student bed spaces to those already in the pipeline.

Well, you don’t get to welcome home Olympic medalists every day of the week.

Skibbereen has laid claim to the title of Ireland’s first 1GB town with those behind the digital Ludgate Hub declaring that the venture is a blueprint for the regeneration of rural Ireland.

Rural Ireland’s first digital hub, creating 2,000 jobs and increasing the local economy by €37.5m annually, has opened in Skibbereen.

Members of the emergency services, who came to the rescue of scores of people in Bandon twice last December, were hailed as heroes at the annual West Cork Community Awards on Friday night.

The University of Limerick made a tax settlement in excess of €110,000 to Revenue last year over a mix-up in how it deducted tax from contractors.

Ireland’s first rural digital hub could help create up to 500 jobs in West Cork over the next five years.

WE’RE at the end of the second week of GE11 and in the west Cork town of Skibbereen, the election campaign that everyone concedes as so important, rumbles on.

FRANCIE KELLY’S shebeen in Southill has cast planners at Limerick City Council into a legal minefield.

BUSINESS property owners pay up to two-thirds and more of the annual budget of some local councils.