A multi-million-euro plan for the revamp of a Co Cork town has been unveiled. It includes new bypass roads, enhanced streetscapes, cycling lanes, safer pedestrianised areas and and restrictions on HGV traffic.

The community group opposed to the building of an incinerator in Cork Harbour has claimed the application is invalid, due to a string of issues, including errors over the company name of the applicant, Indaver Ireland.

A county council wants to bulldoze two disabled pensioners’ home to make way for a new road to the Cliffs of Moher.

New bridges and cycleways will form part of a plan to free up traffic in a congested area on the southside of Cork City.

A working group is to be set up to examine the feasibility of turning miles of former railways in West Cork into walking trails.

Cork County Council is embarking on a new plan for the Douglas area aimed at ridding traffic tailbacks and identifying future uses for undeveloped lands.

FORMER boss of Dairygold Co-op Jerry Henchy has been removed as chief executive of Reox Holdings, which was spun out from the dairy operation in 2006.

AS an employee in the financial services industry for many years — and indeed as a taxpayer — I would like to add my voice to the anger being expressed at RTÉ for allowing uncensored and ill-informed comment on the Joe Duffy Show on Radio One.

IAWS, one of the country’s leading convenience food groups, has been linked to a €150m buyout of the consumer brands formerly owned by Dairygold Co-op.

BUSINESS leaders in Cork have written to the Minister for Justice demanding a cap be put on the number of charity collectors operating on the city’s streets at any one time.

MASSIVE increases in rents are forcing indigenous businesses out of Cork’s premier streets, and if the exodus continues it will soon be populated with just phone shops and multinationals.

POLITICIANS and businesses united yesterday in fresh calls to scrap Cork’s “draconian” car clamping policy.

THE opening of the Kinsale Road roundabout months ahead of schedule has again provoked business leaders to ask why a relatively minor city-centre project will take another 18 months to complete.

A CORK hotel which paid €9,000 water charges in 2002 is facing an astronomical bill of €28,000 for last year.

CORK Business Association is launching a major drive to get new members, preparing to appoint its first chief executive and commencing a series of corporate lunches featuring high-profile speakers like Ben Dunne.

I TOTALLY sympathise with Anita O’Driscoll who was disgusted with the state of the toilets at Kent Station in Cork (Irish Examiner letters, March 9).

SOUTH Western Services’ (SWS) future still hung in the balance following a frank and open meeting of the board yesterday.

DAIRYGOLD is expected to make a strong case for the merger of South Western Services (SWS) with IAWS Co-op when the board of SWS meets today.