The announcement came after Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, finally agreed that his department would co-fund the redesign of the weir in Fermoy.

Many councillors said they now felt a naming and shaming policy was the only way they were going to stamp out the problem which is blighting many towns and villages in the county.

Independents will hold sway in Cork’s County Hall despite Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael continuing to underline their dominance as the main parties in the local authority.

Local politics in Fermoy has been a game of musical chairs of sorts with representatives not just giving up county council positions for Dáil seats, but also swapping parties since the last local elections.

Irish Water is investigating who is responsible for pumping excess fluids into the Cork town's sewerage treatment system.

A municipal district council is likely to become the first in the country to ban the setting-up of gaming arcades in its jurisdiction.

Plans to ban gambling arcades from setting up in towns and villages in Co Cork have been put on hold after Cork County Council received legal advice on the matter which raised more questions than answers.

Larger developments in Co Cork may in future have water-harvesting projects attached as a condition of their planning permission after it was confirmed that some communities may have to be supplied by water tankers for the next two months.

Cork county councillors want to use the country’s largest, but unused, landfill site to dispose of Japanese knotweed, and say the move might make it cheaper to build new homes.

A county councillor is seeking a breakdown of costs for the planned €1m development of two bungalows and a five-bay mobile home parking area.

Nearly 5,000 more people were issued with dog licences in Co Cork last year compared to 2016.

Rural communities are mobilising to stop gaming companies setting up casinos in their localities.

Nearly 800 people on the housing waiting list do not log onto Cork County Council’s online system, which offers vacant houses to new tenants, because they do not have access to the internet or do not know how to use it.

The Department of Housing is to be urged to let local authorities build council houses with downstairs bathrooms and bedrooms so they are readily usable for tenants who become disabled or too frail for stairs.

A pilot scheme to allow people on the housing waiting list apply online for council houses in Cork has been heralded an outstanding success.

A monument is to be constructed in a north Cork town to honour a Tipperary man who set a world record after being buried alive for 61 days.

The introduction of controversial casual trading bye-laws is on hold in Cork county after a senior counsel advised the local authority to conduct comprehensive research into ancient market rights.

A public official has claimed Halloween celebrations in one Co Cork town are “getting out of hand” after a car was driven into a bonfire on Monday night.

Councillors are to write to the Office of Public Works (OPW) asking what type of insurance cover it has if its flood prevention projects in north Cork fail, and householders and businesses are inundated with water.

IDA Ireland is to be asked to explain why it has failed to attract any industry to a 21-acre site, developed 14 years ago, currently being used to graze animals.

Seventeen kilometres of mains water pipes are to be replaced in areas of Co Cork where supply breakages have dogged communities for years.

The HSE is being asked to guarantee that a ward closure in a community hospital in north Cork will be temporary and not permanent, as some county councillors fear.

Members of the public may be asked to volunteer as safety wardens outside a number of schools in Cork county.

Councillors have pleaded with Transport Initiative Ireland (TII) not to completely close a main road in North Cork for realignment and resurfacing as it could kill off businesses in two villages.

Indiscriminate litter offenders in Co Cork may be named and shamed after a senior local authority official agreed with elected members that drastic measures are needed to crack down on roadside dumping.

Hidden cameras, a name-and-shame policy and education programmes are among the likely proposals being considered by Cork County Council chiefs to halt public littering.

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

Cork County Council is preparing to take eight legal cases against AIB because the bank has refused to release insurance policies it holds on developers who have not finished off ghost estates.

Cork county councillors have asked the County Hall executive to provide financial expertise to help elected members get to grips with the annual budget.

Cork County Council is to write to Irish Water urging it to compensate people living in ‘hard water’ areas and to provide waivers for those suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Hard-pressed residents of a Cork village must wait at least nine more months before work is undertaken to fix their "Third World" water supply.

Fianna Fail are on the verge of achieving a remarkable three out of the six seats on offer in the Fermoy electoral area, although it will be a Labour Party man who looks odds on to top the poll when the first count is announced around 6pm.

THERE would have to be a monumental meltdown for Fianna Fáil if the party was to lose either of its two sitting councillors in the Fermoy area.