SITES from as low as €12,000 and family homes, from €156,000 are on offer in north Cork.

MINISTER for Health Mary Harney will be pressed in the Dáil on the delay in completing an investigation into the death of a 75-year-old woman at a Co Cork hospital on June 22, 2006.

THE HSE has been told to ‘name and shame’ private nursing homes where elderly patients have been abused.

CORK County Council has been warned it faces a potential bill of hundreds of thousands of euro if more landowners adjoining an unauthorised halting site pursue a case against it in the High Court.

THE chairman of the HSE South Forum has expressed concern about the length of time it is taking to complete an investigation into the death of a 74-year-old woman at a community hospital in Co Cork.

RETAIL giant Aldi is planning to build a €100 million regional distribution centre for the south of Ireland which will create up to 160 jobs.

WORK has begun on a €70 million dual carriageway which will cut the journey time between Cork and Dublin by at least 10 minutes.

HEALTH Service Executive officials have been accused of trying to gag the media by barring journalists from a meeting at which health cuts will be discussed.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has come under fire for failing to confirm the extent of the cancer test review at Cork University Hospital.

THE management at one of Cork’s biggest hospitals was yesterday urged to clarify the future of a crucial Warfarin clinic.

AN INQUIRY is being called for into why the new A&E unit at Mercy University Hospital Cork will not open until next March, despite having been completed 14 months ago.

IT’S been revealed that the average householder in Co Cork is subsidising people who get a waiver for their refuse bills to the tune of between €70 to €80 a year.

TWO men in their 40s died following a horror head-on crash on a bypass in north Cork.

THE owners of a quarry alleged to be illegal have been told to halt all operations.

A MULTI-million conversion of a former convent to include a 155-seat underground cinema and conference centres, offices, shops, creche, community centre and 52 apartments is set to proceed following a vote taken by Cork county councillors yesterday.

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside the County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

FINE Gael is determined to see two of its biggest hitters join the growing list of civil wars exploding in Cork East.

THE proposed €18 million northern relief road for Mallow has been put on hold, it emerged yesterday.

AN 80-acre site at Lynch Camp in Kilworth, Co Cork, is the preferred site for a super-prison, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said yesterday.

STANDING orders were suspended at a Cork County Council meeting yesterday, amid fears that a recent High Court ruling could jeopardise 500 BUPA jobs in Fermoy.

ANGER and surprise were expressed by local representatives and community leaders yesterday as they learnt that an army camp in North Cork could become the site of a €70 million prison.

IT could take at least five months before the speed limit on the former main road between Watergrasshill and Fermoy is increased from 80km/h to 100km/h.

ANGRY councillors claimed yesterday that motorists refusing to use the new tolled Fermoy bypass were being penalised after the speed limit on the former main road was dropped from 100km to 80km.

PLANS to create Ireland’s first commercial anaerobic waste digester have been turned down by Cork County Council.

DRINKING water in a Co Cork community could have been contaminated by illegal waste lagoons, which the European Court ordered should be closed 14 months ago.

CHILDREN protested yesterday against Ireland’s first proposed anaerobic waste digester, which could be built less than 500 yards from their school.

THE Cork county manager has said he will personally investigate claims that an illegal waste dump in North Cork is still operating, more than a year after the European Court ordered its closure.