You might normally find money under a mattress but it’s the materials in the mattress itself which have helped get a new recycling business off the ground.

Cork County Council has been urged to deploy more litter wardens on beaches after sun worshippers left some of them looking like rubbish tips.

A PILOT waste reduction project being carried out in a small village in Co Cork looks set to become a model for the rest of the country.

PEOPLE living on a peninsula in West Cork were celebrating yesterday as they were officially awarded the title of European Destination of Excellence.

GREEN may be the colour traditionally associated with Irish tourism but the industry has some way to go before it can claim its environmental practices are of a similar hue.

THE Port of Cork yesterday rubbished a rival port’s objection to its plans to build a €226 million container and cargo terminal at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork.

BACKYARD burning has escalated since the introduction of pay-by-weight refuse charges in County Cork and the council yesterday warned that people doing it are damaging the health of neighbours and risk prosecution.