VALLEY ROVERS struck late to win the Evening Echo Cork Premier IFC title at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, beating Clyda Rovers 0-7 to 0-5 and earning themselves senior status for the first time.

CHAMPION trainer Aidan O’Brien has welcomed An Bord Pleanála’s refusal of planning permission for an animal waste processing facility in south Tipperary.

CARBERY RANGERS handed out a drubbing to Bishopstown in the first round of the Evening Echo Cork SFC in Bandon last night.

AN 85-year-old educator and actor scooped a surprise award yesterday beating off the challenge of bookies’ favourites Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Derval O’Rourke to become Cork Person of the Year.

THE successor to Maurice Moloney, manager of the largest local authority in Ireland, Cork, will be known next week, and it’s down to a two-horse race.

CORK County Council officials are to compile a report on designating Spike Island a national heritage and amenity site, in a move which could finally remove any possibility of a super jail being built there.

CORK County Council has struck a deal to buy a controversial 20-acre site in North Cork, which is the subject of two probes, saving itself nearly €2 million on a contract of sale it had previously signed.

CORK County Council has struck a deal to buy a controversial 20-acre site in North Cork, which is the subject of two probes, saving itself nearly €2 million on the contract it previously signed.

A FORMER equerry to Princess Diana and his brother have still not disclosed how much they want to hand the freehold of Mallow Town Park to the town council.

THE parents of a young man who was killed when his motorbike skidded on a muddy road said “an apparent lack of foresight” on behalf of council planners and engineers was partly to blame for their son’s death.

A MAJOR battle began last night over ambitious plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

CORK county manager Maurice Moloney said yesterday he expects an investigation into a controversial land deal to be completed within a matter of weeks.

CORK County Council is to examine proposals aimed at forcing developers to provide land free of charge for schools and graveyards.

THE man who has presided over the biggest period of growth in the history of County Cork confirmed yesterday that he has decided to retire on December 18.

CORK County Council may be forced to spend €30 million on a recycling and composting centre after talks on a partnership deal with a subsidiary of private operator Greenstar broke down.

NEARLY three months after a major probe was launched into a controversial land deal in North Cork, gardaí have yet to be formally asked to investigate it.

A SECOND senior Cork County Council official has been investigated by his employers in relation to the controversial land negotiation in north Cork in which the council negotiated to buy land for €11.6 million which had been on offer just months earlier for €8m.

THE mayor of Co Cork has said there will be “no hiding place” for any Cork County Council employees who may have abused their position for financial gain.

THESE are the scenes Cork County Council officials were unable to view — after they failed to get inside a historic mansion in Douglas.

CORK County Council is to appoint a consultant who will report on the feasibility of producing bio-fuel at the former sugar plant in Mallow, Co Cork.

COUNTY councillors have reacted angrily to a letter from the Department of Transport telling them only limited finance will be available to do up harbours in Cork before they are taken over by the local authority.

YOUNG West Cork couples trying to rebuild old houses belonging to their ancestors are being refused planning permission because they have a view of the sea, it was claimed yesterday.

RAMPANT quarrying is threatening to overwhelm an east Cork community, a lobby group warned yesterday.

CORK County Manager Maurice Moloney maintained yesterday that a €200 million O’Flynn Construction project at Dunkettle could not be completed until road improvements are carried out in the area.

DESPITE a warning from the Cork county manager that towns need good shopping facilities to survive, public representatives yesterday voted against granting retail giant Tesco permission to build a supermarket in Charleville.

FINANCIAL guru Eddie Hobbs and All-Ireland hurling hero Seán Óg Ó hAilpín have been installed by the bookies as joint favourites to lift the title of Cork Person of the Year, at the annual awards ceremony which will be held in the Rochestown Park Hotel today.

UNITED States drugs giant, Amgen, is a step closer to setting up a €1.3 billion plant in Cork - which will create up to 1,500 jobs, the Irish Examiner has learned.

CUTS in Government funding to Cork County Council will impact on the development of some children’s playgrounds and community projects next year.

FEARS have been expressed that too many high-rise apartment blocks are being built in Co Cork which will could turn into the “ghettos of the future.”

OPENING a park-and-ride facility in Mayfield would be a disaster, according to Cork county councillors who want their counterparts in the city to abandon the idea.

PROPOSALS to provide all fire stations in Co Cork with defibrillators have been put on hold until the findings of a Government taskforce are made known early next year.

A ROW broke out at Cork’s County Hall yesterday when FF councillors were accused of hypocrisy after seeking to have collection of waste water charges postponed for a year.

PLANNING permission has just been granted for the first crematorium outside of Dublin, which will be built at a cost of €2.5 million.

CORK County Council is to demand a comprehensive report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) outlining the recent spillage of 250 tonnes of caustic soda at the ADM plant in Ringaskiddy.

Sean O’Riordan

Sean O’Riordan

Seán O’Riordan

CORK county manager Maurice Moloney has said that a Government embargo on creating jobs in the local authority is causing serious problems.

CORK County Council is currently examining planning applications for 30 multi-million euro hotel/golf resorts, county manager Maurice Moloney disclosed yesterday.

PEOPLE are increasingly burning and dumping rubbish in an attempt to avoid expensive refuse charges, a number of Cork county councillor have claimed.

COUNCIL officials have admitted that not all refuse collection trucks operating in South and East Cork have been certified as having accurate weighing equipment.

THE only surprise at yesterday’s Cork People of the Year awards, was that it had taken so long for the city’s best known son to be honoured by his own.