Cork County Council is to become one of the first local authorities in the country to publish a Climate Adaptation Strategy, which will form a blueprint for more environmentally-friendly planning and services into the future.

Bodycams and talking waste bins could be introduced as part of a crackdown on littering and dog fouling in Co Cork.

The introduction of a charge by some waste disposal companies for disposing of recyclable materials has led to a huge increase in glass bottles, drinks and food cans being deposited at a local authority's bring sites.

Cork County Council should have the power to go on to private land to tackle invasive plant species such as Japanese knotweed because some landowners are ignoring calls to eradicate them.

County councillors representing north-west Cork have reacted angrily to the redrawing of electoral areas by the Local Electoral Boundary Commission, with a senior council official saying the fall-out from it “will present challenges” to the local authority.

Nearly 5,000 more people were issued with dog licences in Co Cork last year compared to 2016.

Council officials have been urged to conduct “a cat cull” after claims were made that two housing estates in Co Cork were infested with feral moggies.

A Canadian company wants to build a windfarm at the country’s largest landfill site, which was ‘mothballed’ some years ago, having cost €48m to develop.

Many residents in Co Cork are experiencing excessive noise pollution as a monitoring agency lacks sufficient personnel to enforce legislation, described as “inadequate”.

Cork County Council is to examine barring start-up businesses from securing grant-aid unless they take measures to reduce the use of plastics in the workforce.

More than 10,000 home-owners in Cork will not be able to avail of government grants to defray the potentially large cost of repairing defective septic tanks.

As many complaints about illegal dumping have been made this year to Cork County Council as were made in the whole of 2016.

The time it takes Cork’s firemen to attend emergencies has been praised by Cork County Council.

Pilot scheme aims to highlight heritage potential of lesser-known villages and boost visitor numbers

More than eight million tourists are expected to visit Ireland next year as the Star Wars effect will help bring a €4bn boost to the economy.

Cork County Council has helped create 240 jobs in the past 17 months through its work with Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs).

Cork County Council plans to undertake a pioneering role in promoting tourism as a result of its unique involvement with an EU body which was set up to grow tourism in peripheral rural regions.

Cork has three garda chief superintendents but, under new guidelines issued by the departments of justice and environment, only two will in future be allowed to sit on the county’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC).

A Cork harbour town has received a major tourism boost with the announcement that it is to get a 74-berth marina.

Speculation surrounds the future of Cobh’s Titanic pier — the last piece of terra firma on which stood the 123 passengers who boarded the ill-fated liner in April 1912.

A report on the futuredevelopment of Mallow Castle as a tourist attraction will be finalised in the next three months.

STATISTICS, and widely differing ones at that, were thrown around like confetti yesterday as opposing sides at a hearing on a controversial superdump tried to gain the upper hand.

Opposition to the landfill cites local wildlife, and risk of water contamination Seán O’Riordan.