One of the country’s leading providers of motorway services has applied for planning permission to build a major service station in north Cork, on the M8.

An application for planning permission has been lodged for the first 24-hour motorway service station in Co Cork, which if approved will lead up to 100 full-time jobs being created.

THE Office of Public Works (OPW) is investigating a problem regarding the “durability of the concrete” used in part of Fermoy’s €33 million flood prevention project.