A retired couple were among three Irish people who died after a house fire on the outskirts of London.

A 22-year-old Killaloe man who subjected a local family to a “reign of abuse” has been ordered to appear before a judge to answer for his “despicable behaviour”.

It’s being joked that Labour councillors are such an endangered species in Cork that the two remaining should be given sanctuary at Fota Wildlife Park.

Because of changes to a number of Co Cork’s electoral areas, there will be casualties among big-name councillors, and they’re more likely to be from Fine Gael, writes Sean O’Riordan

Cork County Council will inherit a deficit of almost €97,000 from Cobh Town Council arising from the 2012 Titanic centenary commemorations.

Speculation surrounds the future of Cobh’s Titanic pier — the last piece of terra firma on which stood the 123 passengers who boarded the ill-fated liner in April 1912.

A golf club in north Cork has been thinking outside the box to try and help the red squirrel thrive — and has a video to show how popular the initiative has been with the under-threat animals.

A well-known Labour councillor has quit the party, saying it has abandoned the very people it was supposed to represent.

The decision by a former Mayor of County Cork not to contest next summer’s local elections is the latest in a line of shock resignations to hit County Hall.

Former junior minister Willie Penrose has applied to rejoin the Labour Parliamentary Party, 23 months after he resigned the whip over the closure of Mullingar barracks.

A long-serving county councillor’s shock resignation was prompted by power being stripped from local authorities.

The memories of family and friends who have died from cancer inspired a man to keep pedalling during the tough days of a 2,000km fundraising cycle from Copenhagen to Ireland.

Cork County Council has been urged to acquire, as a potential floating museum or restaurant, one of two Irish Naval Service ships due to be decommissioned.

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

Cork’s county manager will today try to persuade Fáilte Ireland bosses to reconsider their decision to pull funding from a major tourism project in Cork harbour.

Fáilte Ireland’s decision to pull millions in funding from a tourism project could jeopardise a €40m masterplan to transform an island in Cork harbour into a national park capable of attracting up to 200,000 visitors annually.

Cork County Council is to examine the possibility of providing a grant to help start-up businesses pay their rates.

Public representatives say most of their fears about a potential downgrading of policing in a large part of Co Cork have been allayed by senior gardaí.

Documentary makers say steelworkers in France whose futures look uncertain will “probably feel very nervous” when they see how employees were treated by one of the world’s richest men after he closed a plant in Co Cork in 2001.

The former group chief executive of Bord Gáis is hotly tipped to fill the role of chairman of the Port of Cork.

After several months’ delay, four board vacancies have finally been filled at the Port of Cork but a board chairman still remains to be appointed by Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar.

As a mark of respect to an employee who was killed in a work accident, members of Cork County Council adjourned their meeting in County Hall yesterday after offering their sympathies to the deceased’s family.

Up to €35m annually and around 190 jobs could be generated from Cork County Council’s plan to transform Spike Island into a tourist attraction

Cork County Council has been left with “egg on its face” following a cock-up which resulted in notices about the household tax being addressed to people who are deceased.

People living near a toxic dump in Cork harbour will next week get the chance to ask a team of experts about plans to make the site safe.

The chairman of the country’s largest joint policing committee has resigned from his post after being detained by gardaí on suspicion of drink driving.

Services at Cork County Council are grinding to a halt, it has been claimed, because the local authority has laid off almost 700 people in the past few years.

A major shake-up of policing is on the cards for Cork which will involve the axing of two garda districts.

Cork County Council officials are to hold talks with gardaí and landowners in an attempt to get an ‘emergency’ route opened in Cobh.

It was going to take something a bit special to snatch the limelight from the weekend visit of President Michael D Higgins to Killarney, Co Kerry.

Street and beach cleaning may be outsourced by Cork County Council as officials “toy with the idea” of concentrating more outdoor staff into maintaining 12,000km of roads, parts of which are in a serious state of deterioration.

The minister responsible for cleaning up a toxic dump in Cork harbour has promised to look for more money if the project costs in excess of the €40m already set aside by the Government.

A Limerick man has been sentenced to three years by Mr Justice Paul Carney for the sex assault of a woman after the Listowel Races.

AN Irish draughtmare found dead yesterday may have been killed by lightning on a farm in Co Kerry during a severe thunderstorm.

ELECTION candidates may soon be confined to putting up election posters in designated areas of Co Cork.

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful David Norris left Cork in a hurry yesterday morning, probably aware that county councillors there were not going to endorse his bid for the presidency.

EXACTLY 10 years ago, the steel industry died in Cork Harbour leaving a toxic legacy which, according to a government TD, is about to be finally resolved.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Phil Hogan is expected to face a barrage of questions about what the Government intends to do with a toxic waste dump when he visits Cork shortly.

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan is set to be grilled about the Government’s plans to address the massive toxic dump in Cork Harbour.

THE Queen of England and US President Barack Obama will receive official invitations to visit Co Cork later this year.

FOR Fianna Fáil, the Cork East constituency has been a happy hunting ground since the early 1980s where Ned O’Keeffe and Michael Ahern were always guaranteed to retain their seats.

SPECULATION is mounting that Fianna Fáil is planning to run just one candidate in Cork East where the party currently holds two seats.

ONE of the country’s most outspoken politicians believes he will lose his Dáil seat and several of his Fianna Fáil colleagues will also fall victim to a public backlash against the party.

IT’S a story that’s rooted in remote places, almost lost in the heather-clad hillsides of the south-west.