The Office of Public Works (OPW) has extended by a month its deadline for submissions on the largest flood defence scheme in the history of the State.

An unauthorised car park in Cork’s tech jobs hub will shut down within days after a bizarre planning situation which saw a local authority initiate an enforcement action against itself.

A local authority has initiated planning enforcement action on itself over a car park planning case in Cork.

A leading developer has lodged a planning application following complaints about an unauthorised car park on public land in Cork City’s tech and software jobs hub.

A city-wide survey of the invasive Japanese knotweed plant is to be undertaken across Cork next year to establish the full extent of the problem. The knotweed’s growth can render homes unsaleable.

Telecoms firm Eir has been accused of “corporate vandalism” after a landmark public art project was blocked out by one of its rebranding banners.

Concern has been expressed about the opening of a Starbucks cafe at the historic Queen Anne House at the corner of Emmett Place/Opera Lane in Cork city centre.

Cork city councillor Laura McGonigle faced death wishes and vile and abusive language following the furore over her weekend Facebook post regarding Irish Water protesters, according to the Evening Echo.

As one Cabinet Minister put it: "Jaysus Eric, I think our cover’s been blown."

A Fine Gael councillor and adviser to one of the party’s MEPs has apologised for suggesting water charges protestors should drink rain water and said that she has been "overwhelmed" by the reaction to her comments.

A Fine Gael councillor has apologised for seeming to suggest that the thousands of water charges protesters who marched in Cork city on Saturday should collect rainwater to drink.

Updated at 6pm: Cllr. Mcgonigle has since apologised on her official facebookpage stating "I'm very sorry for any offence or upset caused by my ill-judged comments on my facebook page.

The uncertainty over the Cork events centre is set to drag on after senior city officials last night refused to answer questions on the status of the tender process.

Firefighters responding to an illegal bonfire on the northside of Cork City were besieged last night by youths armed with stones, bricks and bottles.

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Labour’s Catherine Clancy, was the most high-profile casualty in the city’s local elections carnage as her party was annihilated.

In recent weeks, Mícheál Martin, Uachtarán Fhianna Fáil, has ruled out a comeback to politics by some of his former Cabinet colleagues, including former Tánaiste Mary Coughlan and former Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue, stating that their party “needs new blood.”

Cork’s city councillors voted last night against giving a developer the right of way over a public green to facilitate access to a site for a housing development.

A new online Jersey Shore-style reality show which charts “a typical day” in the life of young Corkonians has become a YouTube hit.

Mary Regan’s ‘The kiss of death for female representation in politics’ (Forum, Apr 13) debases her argument, such as it is, with cheap shots at Fine Gael and Enda Kenny.

Nice wan, like — the People’s Republic of Cork is getting its own “rebel passport” to mark the Gathering.

We will not succumb to mob rule.

A proposal to scrap a prayer at the start of a local authority meeting sparked an unholy row last night.

Kenyan athlete Freddy Keron set a new course record as he became the first overseas winner of the Cork City Marathon.

They will come in all shapes and sizes, and all levels of expertise, but they all have just one thing in mind — getting across the finishing line.

Cork’s city manager has defended the sale price of public land to facilitate the GAA’s €40m revamp of Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

Taxpayers are set to fork out €75,000 to repair a fancy street lighting system in Cork which has been damaged by careless drivers.

The way has finally been cleared for the development of a new floating pontoon to replace a crumbling concrete slipway on Cork’s Marina.

The head of a leading dog welfare charity has urged the Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to make a decision soon on a takeover proposal.

Dogs Trust, one of the largest dog welfare charities in Europe, has offered to take over the centre operated by the Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

An embattled dogs’ home at the centre of serious animal welfare allegations has defended its operation and said it has nothing to hide.

Aw...what a downer, boy. T’was a daycent idea, like.

THERE is a “sense of extreme anxiety” in the Cork suburb of Douglas with the return to the area of convicted killer and attempted rapist, Conor Downey, according to community organisations.

PUBLIC opening hours may be extended at a local authority swimming pool in Cork after a major investment in upgrades.

FIRST Georgia Salpa quits a panto, now a Cork city councillor is being lambasted for starring in one.

THE rebel politician behind the Cork passport idea has forked out a few bob to secure a new website to ensure her proposal reaches the global Lee-aspora.

People with Cork ancestry could soon be forking out €40 for a "Certificate of Corkness" under a novel proposal being discussed by Cork City Council tonight.

IT’S been a self-declared republic for years, like.

MORE than 200 community associations across Cork city have been offered free one-tonne bags of salt to help them cope with freezing weather this winter.

FINE GAEL has taken a swipe at Fianna Fáil after the Government announced major investment in Cork’s publicly-owned swimming pools.

CARELESS delivery drivers have been blamed for the extensive damage being caused to a groundbreaking €422,000 lighting scheme on one of Cork’s busiest shopping streets.

A TRANSPORT agency has identified Cork as the perfect location for the roll out of a hugely successful European-style bike rental scheme.

FINE Gael have been left red-faced after one of its own representatives became the first person in Ireland to announce plans to run for the new Seanad — despite the party promising to scrap the upper house.

Parents of children at a Cork primary school — where the numbers infected with tuberculosis (TB) have risen to 25 — want every child in the school to receive the TB vaccination as a matter of priority.