Defects inherent in the old Cork Prison building in terms of housing vulnerable and suicidal prisoners have been rectified at the new multi-million euro facility, Cork Coroners’ Court heard yesterday.

How incoming England manager Sam Allardyce contrived to keep a hard-drinking Limerick player off the beer was recalled yesterday.

Dublin is the second most expensive city in the eurozone in which to live for foreign workers, a study shows.

Shane Ronayne has expressed interest in replacing Eamonn Ryan as Cork ladies senior football team manager.

Salaries are expected to increase by more than 2% next year, according to an economic survey.

Almost all private sector staff, no matter where they work, can expect a salary increase of just over 2% next year, according to a major report published this morning.

Every marathon runner has a back story — a personal goal, a special intention, a charity or cause that’s close to their heart. At this year’s Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon there was no shortage of driven individuals eager to share their reasons for running.

The board of the former Cork County VEC received nearly six times more in payments and expenses than its city counterparts in the five years prior to the amalgamation of the two organisations, correspondence to the Public Account Committee has revealed.

Croke Park has experienced many historic moments in its lifetime but none so futuristic as being able to view game highlights from your stadium seat.

Páidí Ó Sé, Christie Ring, Sean Flanagan, and other sporting legends past and present will be handing on their skills to a new generation thanks to the marvels of technology.

Irish salary levels are expected to increase by 2% next year, driven by heightening competition for top talent in the hi-tech, life sciences and financial services industries.

Dublin has jumped 10 places in a list of the world’s costliest places to live for expats and foreign nationals.

County Cork Education and Training Board has said it and the Department of Education have delivered detailed responses to more than 30 issues raised in a long-running, public spending investigation.

The Government have no plans for an international group of consultants to examine the use of fluoride in public water schemes, despite promises by a minister that this would be done.

Fine Gael’s 23-year dominance on Cork County Council is at an end, with the race on to see if Fianna Fáil will do a deal with Independents and/or Sinn Féin to gain the balance of power.

Fianna Fail are on the verge of achieving a remarkable three out of the six seats on offer in the Fermoy electoral area, although it will be a Labour Party man who looks odds on to top the poll when the first count is announced around 6pm.

Cork County Council is to set up an awards system for people who help the disabled and will concentrate on making town centres more disabled-friendly.

Cork County Council spent more than €18m on employing external consultants during the past two years, according to figures released by the local authority yesterday.

A schoolteacher from west Cork and a village community group in the Muskerry gaeltacht were the overall winners in Cork County Council’s Mayor’s Community Awards Scheme.

A local authority is putting its hands up and admits to not having an estimated €50m to repair crumbling footpaths.

Landowners in Cork who refuse to allow their land to be used for drainage channels to alleviate road surface water could face prosecution.

A former 25-mile section of railway line which features a bridge made famous by the 1966 World War One film, Blue Max, could be opened as a walkway-cycleway.

The Government is being urged to raise the legal age for drinking spirits to 22 amid concerns youngsters bingeing on hard liquor will face serious health consequences in the future.

An extensive network of walking trails has been developed through a town to showcase its rich military heritage.

Cork County Council is committing €1.2m of its reserves into repairing potholed roads, while it waits to see if the Government will reimburse it for the €2.27m worth of damage done to the roads since Storm Darwin on February 12.

An international group of consultants is to be appointed by the Government to examine the use of fluoride in the public water supply.

The country’s largest local authority is considering bringing in private contractors to fill in its potholes because it can’t cope with the workload.

A large secondary school in Co Cork is to undergo a €5.5m extension which will enable it to more than double its original intake of pupils.

Despite the economic downturn, Cork County Council took in €101.8m in rates last year, up more than €10m on what it collected in 2008.

Dublin has been ranked 34th in a league table of 223 global cities for best quality of living standards for expatriates.

Nearly €4m is to be spent refurbishing vacant local authority homes in Co Cork this year — in a bid to put a dent in the housing waiting list.

It wouldn’t do for hundreds of thousands of visitors to have to navigate through bunkers on a road instead of an adjoining golf course — which is why a road repair project is being fast-tracked ahead of the Irish Open.

A number of roads, public buildings, parks and bridges in Co Cork could soon be named after members of Cumann Na mBan.

You could say he walked it! The man who won Ireland’s first gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in 18 years has been crowned Cork Person of the Year.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan is to be told “it’s simply not good enough” that, just days before Cork County Council’s annual budget meeting, its manager still does not know what level of grant will come from central Government.

People have started digging in after the first publicly developed allotment scheme in Cork was officially opened at the weekend.

World champion race walker Rob Heffernan has backed a call for teen spirit in next year’s Cork city marathon.

Only adults accompanying children 12 years of age or younger will be allowed into playgrounds in Co Cork as part of an attempt to prevent paedophiles hanging around such amenities.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will join British prime minister on a visit to a First World War memorial in Belgium next month.

Gardaí are preparing to crunch crime data as a major tool in helping them deter and catch culprits in the future.

Three interpretive centres are to be opened on Spike Island in the summer of 2015, which will kickstart a series of projects aimed at turning it into a major tourist attraction, according to county manager Martin Riordan.