A Cork Fine Gael candidate insists she has the backing of her party despite going off-message on the issue of the pension age in her campaign literature.

Sinn Féin councillor Thomas Gould is set to be announced as the party's candidate in Cork North-Central.

Fine Gael's Colm Burke is optimistic about his chances of securing a seat in the General Election in 2020 but conceded that it is now unlikely that he will secure a seat in the by-election.

The expansion of Cork City’s boundary has resulted in a shake-up of electoral wards. In the first of a five-part series,