The speed at which 82,000 people are transferred into Cork City Council’s jurisdiction through its boundary extension will depend on how quickly the Department of Local Government agrees to provide additional staff to the county council to handle the changeover.

Cork County Council is not buying the right type of private houses for those on the waiting list and should be building major social housing schemes itself to address the current housing crisis.

One of the most iconic theatre venues in the south of the country may not re-open until December 2019.

Cork city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

The way the latest boundary extension story was leaked, compounded by repeated delays of a meeting to discuss its fallout, seriously angered many county councillors, writes Sean O’Riordan.

The HSE has been told that it should develop a hospital it has rather than spend millions of euro on a new one on the southside of Cork city.

Private housing estates should pay 35% less local property tax (LPT), because they do not receive the same services as estates looked after by local authorities.

Gardaí and community volunteers are holding special patrols of a children’s playground in Cork after human excrement was spread all over play equipment, resulting in some children getting smeared with it.

Fianna Fáil Councillor Seamus McGrath has been elected as the new mayor of County Cork after defeating Sinn Féin’s Michael ‘Frick’ Murphy by 29 votes to seven.

Overhanging branches on roadside trees has led to haulage companies, nursing the costs of damages, threatening not to deliver to certain areas in Co Cork.

Chairman of St Vincent’s and deputising for the Lord Mayor, Thomas Gould said: “Parents are looking up to people like you, I’ve 2 daughters aged 9 and 6 it is girls like you I’d like them to emulate.”

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

Hours of behind-the-scenes talks have prevented plans for a major new town in Co Cork from being scuppered.

Cork County Council is preparing to declare war on Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant which can destroy houses and which has now established itself in several parts of the county.

Five people, including a four-year-old boy, were taken to hospital following a pile-up on the outskirts of Cork city which closed the main Cork-Limerick road for several hours yesterday.

Four counts in Cork County Hall saw huge gains for Sinn Féin, a revival for Fianna Fáil, the obliteration of the Labour Party, and a palpable appetite for new candidates.

A teenage couple were killed when their car collided with a tanker.

The owner of Blarney Castle wanted a €5,000 down payment, and a cut of traders’ profits, before he would sanction a St Patrick’s Day street market on the local village green, it was claimed last night.

The owner of Blarney Castle is standing over his decision to pull the plug on a key element of the Cork village’s St Patrick’s Day festival.

Sinn Féin's Jonathan O'Brien is the frontrunner in the election for the Cork North Central constituency after the first count.

IT’S likely three auctioneers will end up grabbing four seats in this electoral area.

A PROPOSED €1 billion housing development, the largest ever planned for outside of Dublin, has passed its first hurdle with tentative approval from a local authority.

Though this over-long and more than somewhat tedious epic of the bloody American Civil War - or, if you are a true Johnny Reb, the War Between the States - does not do one of the most bitter conflicts in human history the justice it deserves.

Simon Callow stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in Christmas Carol — The Movie, an animated adaptation of Charles Dicken’s sombre tale about how Scrooge’s miserly ways dictate his whole outlook on life.