Despite repeated promises by the four main political parties to get more women involved in local politics, only 15 out of 71 candidates standing for Cork County Council in May’s local elections are female.

One of the world’s leading biotechnology companies has said it has no intention of resuscitating a €820m plan to create a 1,100-job factory in Co Cork.

Many business people and local authority tenants will breathe a sigh of relief after Cork County Council decided not to increase rates or rents next year.

Senior HSE and ambulance officials have been summoned to explain, in person, to Cork County Council why no ambulance was made available to take Vakaris Martinaitis to hospital after falling from an upstairs bedroom window.

A campaign against a sludge plant on the River Blackwater in east Cork accepting hazardous waste was justified following a Bord Pleanála ruling, a community action group has said.

More people were taken off the local authority housing list in Cork county than in any other local authority area, latest figures show.

PRESIDENTIAL hopeful David Norris left Cork in a hurry yesterday morning, probably aware that county councillors there were not going to endorse his bid for the presidency.