Under-fire landlords have accused University College Cork of effectively ignoring them despite their efforts to tackle alcohol-fuelled problems caused by student tenants.

Cork’s city manager has defended the sale price of public land to facilitate the GAA’s €40m revamp of Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

One of Cork’s leading animal welfare organisation has agreed to undergo an independent review in a bid to quash a damaging campaign about its activities.

There have been calls for an independent investigation into Cork’s leading animal welfare organisation.

The man known as “the voice of City Hall” is putting the phone down after four decades’ of service.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork is, despite objections, pressing ahead with plans to publish online details of how the city’s councillors spend a little-known €248,000 fund.

A DEVELOPER has been cleared to lodge a planning application for a €41 million supermarket near an ecologically sensitive site on Cork’s northside which straddles the city-county boundary.

CITY officials have been forced back to the drawing board after their plans to expand a Traveller halting site on Cork’s northside were shot down.

IN Blarney, 10km from the airport, residents reported hearing what sounded like a plane in trouble.

THE state’s spending watchdog must be beefed up and equipped with more wide-ranging investigative powers, its outgoing chairman said.

TWO local councillors, who refuse to claim conference expenses, have called for an immediate crackdown on the system so that taxpayers’ money can be put to better use.

REPAIRS to two major flood breaches in Cork city’s quay walls will begin before the end of the year.

TRADERS in Cork have expressed concerns that theirs is the only major Irish city without a pre-Christmas parking incentive.

FINE Gael has for the first time become the largest party on Cork City Council, ending decades of Fianna Fáil dominance.

RUNNING smaller buses could save two under-threat bus routes in Cork city, it was claimed.

A CANCER patient begged Bus Éireann last night not to axe her “lifeline” bus route.

CORK’S business leaders will sign a new agreement with one of China’s biggest and most influential business groups this week, which could lead to a surge in trade between the two countries.

A WET shelter for homeless street drinkers is set to fully open in Cork within weeks.

A VETERAN Fine Gael politician followed in his late father’s footsteps to become lord mayor of Cork last night.

A STAND-OFF over compensation has stalled moves to vacate a centre that is housing some of Cork’s last remaining craftsmen.

THE Munster team will receive a €50,000 welcome home on Leeside after the Heineken Cup final — win or lose.

OPPOSITION parties piled on the political pressure last night as talks to restore the Cork Swansea ferry route remained delicately poised.

CORK’S city councillors were under fire last nightafter they voted againstrezoning a site for a new gaelscoil.

CORK’S city manager has defended the contract governing the multi-million euro sale of 111 acres of public land to a top developer almost five years ago.

CORK’S “aggressive” car clamping regime is portraying a bad image of the city, politicians have said.

THERE are 353 city council-owned homes lying vacant in Cork city and more than half of them are on the northside.