The election results are almost all in and political anoraks have been digesting the information gleaned from the ballot boxes like famished goats.

Directly elected mayors in Cork, Limerick and Waterford will act as champions for the city regions as counterbalances to development in the capital.

Cabinet ministers and the Attorney General privately expressed concerns that €130,000-a-year directly elected mayors in Cork, Limerick, and Waterford could become too powerful, a confidential memo reveals.

Financial incentives for parties to run more women in the upcoming local elections are set to be agreed by Cabinet this week.

Agreement will be given today to extend Cork’s City boundary for the first time in more than 50 years.

The Government has ruled out allowing hard-pressed drivers pay their motor tax in monthly instalments, despite making an additional €55.3m this year from those forced to renew their discs on a three- or six-monthly basis.

Legislation is being prepared to extend Cork’s city boundary for the first time since 1965.

Cork City Council has urged the local government minister to introduce legislation quickly to give effect to a city boundary extension.

Cork’s city councillors are poised to rule out further talks on the contentious city boundary extension after county councillors rejected the compromise deal.

Pressure is mounting on Cork’s county councillors to declare their position on the landmark city boundary extension report.

The proposed deal on the extension of the city boundary will cost Cork County Council up to €19m annually in lost income and will see around 350 of its staff transferred to the city council.

The mayors of the city and county councils in Cork have welcomed an agreed city boundary extension which could see its population double within weeks.

A deal is finally on the cards to deliver the first extension of Cork’s city boundary in 50 years.

Fresh efforts are underway to break the impasse over the controversial Cork city boundary extension.

Cork’s city councillors have rejected an invitation from the county for their chief executives to engage in “bilateral meetings” on the contentious city boundary extension issue.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has been given until Monday to appoint an independent mediator to sort out the row over Cork City’s boundary extension, or face High Court action to prevent it.

The two biggest business lobby groups in Cork have united to call for ministerial intervention to deliver a swift resolution to the city boundary standoff.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has rejected claims senior civil servants pushed a pro-merger agenda during the controversial 2015 review of Cork’s local government structures.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has criticised “scaremongering” over the contentious Cork city boundary extension issue and has urged the two local authorities to “engage constructively” with the group set up to implement it.

A step-down facility for the homeless, which has been unused for more than a decade, could be open within six weeks if State funding is sanctioned.

Cork City Council is poised to go on a PR offensive amid ongoing controversy over the city boundary extension.

One of Munster’s largest business associations is prepared to take High Court action to block the proposed extension of Cork City boundary.

A veteran Cork City councillor has accused the county council of a Trojan horse-style ‘stroke’ designed to delay and frustrate the implementation of a city boundary extension.

A former lord mayor of Cork has launched a scathing attack on some outspoken opponents of the city boundary extension, accusing them of damaging the region’s reputation and likening some to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Cork County Council is seeking legal advice to prevent the Mackinnon report’s recommendation to massively extend the city boundary.

The Taoiseach and two government ministers have been warned they face a grassroots revolt over controversial plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

Cork’s city councillors have rejected an offer from the county council to cede land because it “runs contrary” to the larger city boundary extension recommended by an expert group.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has remained tight-lipped on a surprise offer from Cork County Council to cede land to the city.

“If this document was produced under British rule, it would have brought about revolution, and it should. This is a diktat we can’t accept.”

The former head of Beamish and Crawford has called for the controversial Cork event centre project to be scrapped and retendered, writes Eoin English.

The former head of Beamish and Crawford has called for the controversial Cork event centre project to be scrapped and retendered.

Business leaders in Cork and Limerick have united to secure the construction of a motorway between the two cities.

Building work has started on a €4.8m step-down facility in Cork for men recovering from alcohol addiction.

The Government is examining ways of fast-tracking finance for the stalled Cork-Limerick motorway, estimated to cost up to €1bn.

Hundreds of county and city councillors will benefit from a €3,500-a-year pay hike under measures being put forward by Local Government Minister Simon Coveney.

Residents have called for the scrapping of a bus lane on one of Cork City’s busiest roads after figures show there have been more than 100 accidents in the area since it was installed.

Residents have called for the scrapping of a controversial bus lane on one of Cork city’s busiest roads after figures show there have been more than 100 accidents in the area since it was installed, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

The expert group charged with reviewing Cork’s local government will have access to all documents compiled by the committee that recommended the controversial merger of the city and county councils.