Electric cars are too small and lack the range required for the Lord Mayor’s needs, according to Cork City Council.

The image of a child eating his food off a piece of cardboard on the streets of the capital should outrage society, leading campaigner for the homeless, Fr Peter McVerry believes.

Cork city councillors have voted not to change the rate of Local Property Tax in the city.

The new Lord Mayor of Cork said he wants to build connections between various communities and residents of the newly enlarged city.

Talks on who will become the next Lord Mayor of Cork were already underway even as the last two candidates took their seats with just a single vote separating them following a recount.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork has hit out at 'cowards' who have twice damaged election posters at his house in recent weeks.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has branded efforts to create a directly-elected mayor in Cork city as premature and warned that the addition of executive powers to the office could actually distance the role from the public.

More than 15,000 Irish schoolchildren marched out of classrooms yesterday to join a global mass movement of climate change demonstrations.

"There are great projects being put forward and signed off on by Cork councils and they’re being hamstrung by the bureaucracy in the Housing Department."

Having flown higher than any Cork flag in history, the blood and bandages that once orbited the globe have returned to Earth.

Lord Mayor of Cork Tony Fitzgerald has convened a special meeting of Cork City Council to begin implementation of the city boundary extension.

Three of the Relentless Rowers crew Pat O'Connor, Eoin O'Farrell and Sean Underwood from Cork were filmed on board the ocean rowing boat, Saoirse, at the Port of Cork today.

More than 12,000 farmers in Cork want the proposed Mackinnon boundary extension report scrapped and have called for the formation of a single local authority to run the city and county.

The new Lord Mayor of Cork says he is confident that a “fair compensation package” for the county council can be worked out to secure a city boundary extension.

The Lord Mayor of Cork will tonight formally propose that Cork City Council approve the expert advisory report recommending a boundary extension, claiming it is “fundamental” to the future of the city.

Many people played a role in Henry Ford setting up the plant in his ancestral home in Cork, and one of the unsung heroes may well have been the Lord Mayor of Cork when the factory began production in 1919, William F. O’Connor.

A homeless charity will stage its largest-ever fundraiser next week to help put the country’s first mobile ‘homeless shelter and shower bus’ on the road.

Attempts to give Henry Ford the Freedom of Cork failed to materialise, but Thomas Grimes reveals how UCC finally honoured the man after some persuasion.

A group of businessmen, backed by the Lord Mayor of Cork, are hoping to put up a new sign on the outskirts of the city to replace one taken some years ago which honoured the legendary showband The Dixies.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has called on the US authorities to sanction transatlantic flights from Cork in the wake of the Brexit vote.

The Lord Mayor of Cork sparked a war of words last night after refusing to address guests at the launch of a joint city and county council food promotion strategy yesterday in a row over protocol.

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Eoin English writes about families benefitting from Chernobyl Children International and Irish Aid-funded outreach schemes

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Alan Kelly has rejected claims made by Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Chris O'Leary, that the decision to merge Cork City and County Councils is a "wreckless act of political vandalism".

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Chris O’Leary, opened a book of condolence in City Hall following the deaths of Irish students in Berkeley, California.

A defiant Lord Mayor of Cork insisted last night that she will not accept an anti-water charges petition because it urges people to break the law.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has criticised an anti-water charges group for targeting the office of mayor.

A row has broken out in Cork City Council after the deputy Lord Mayor of Cork refused to accept a petition of 15,000 Irish Water boycott signatures from anti-water charge protesters last night.

If you happen to be in Cork City tomorrow, the Coal Quay Plaza is the place to be — 20 lucky people will be sitting down to a free lunch and you could be one of them.

The funeral of Karen Buckley has been told of the indescribable hurt and pain wreaked on her devastated family by an utterly inappropriate death.

The scene of occupations by protestors in recent months became the site of an alien invasion yesterday, as Cork City Hall hosted the launch of an app aimed at helping children develop the skills they need to operate comfortably in social situations.

The human tragedy that was the transportation of Irish convicts to Australia was immortalised in the sporting anthem, ‘Fields of Athenry’. The first journey from Cobh was one of the most dangerous, writes Robert Hume

With a one-in-five infertility rate, more Irish couples are turning to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).

The deputy Lord Mayor of Cork has called for an immediate engineering audit of at-risk buildings in the city centre after falling debris forced another street closure.

The salary of the Lord Mayor of Cork is to be slashed by €57,000, while the amount councillors can claim for attending conferences will be hugely reduced.

Bright, fun, futuristic and a little fantastic — just what the man who gave Fitzgerald Park its name would have appreciated.

President Michael D Higgins said it was with “a great sense of humility and appreciation” that he had become the sixth Irish head of State to be bestowed with the Freedom of Cork City.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the 1990s.