The chairman of the Cork County Joint Policing Committee (JPC) is contacting Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan urging her to provide detectives in Cork with proper firearms training and bullet-proof shields to defuse a row which could lead to the withdrawal in the region of round-the-clock armed cover.

Litter louts in Co Cork could soon face a doubling of fines for dumping their rubbish as well as being named and shamed in the media.

Executive staff of Cork County Council, backed by elected members, have warned the Government any attempt to re-route a proposed motorway link between Cork and Limerick through Tipperary would be a disaster for the economies of North Cork, Kerry, and West Limerick.

Cork County Council had to fix 375 leaks at newly installed water meters last year and get an additional 80 meter boxes replaced, because they were faulty.

Cork County Council is to ask the Government to urgently implement promised guidelines for windfarm developments because under current legislation it cannot carry out noise monitoring unless all turbines in a project are fully completed.

Twenty local authority tenants were approved for house transfers in North Cork because they were victims of “neighbours from hell”.

Private housing estates should pay 35% less local property tax (LPT), because they do not receive the same services as estates looked after by local authorities.

A 4,200-signature petition from people living in a village on the Cork-Kerry border is to be handed to Cork County Council and Irish Water in an effort to get a proper water supply into the area.

Seventeen kilometres of mains water pipes are to be replaced in areas of Co Cork where supply breakages have dogged communities for years.

Work will not commence on a Macroom bypass or new Cork-Ringaskiddy road until at least 2022, as priority is being given to upgrading the Dunkettle/Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

Repair work is nearly complete on the “worst” street surface in Ireland, in Buttevant town. And motorists using the main Cork-Limerick road will soon not have the frustration of waiting in long queues at roadworks.

The imminent demolition of houses in a ghost estate in Lismire is a major breakthrough for Cork County Council and two other estates are in line for a big revamp.

Private homeowners in housing estates, where Cork County Council has acquired properties, should not have to endure any anti-social behaviour from local authority tenants.

Cork County Council is to write to the European Commission seeking an investigation into why the government continues to stall on releasing Leader funding for rural development projects.

Lives are being put at risk as mobile phone coverage has become so poor in recent months in several parts of Cork county.

Nearly half of all off-licences targeted in a sting operation by gardaí in Cork City sold alcohol to minors.

Jobs are being shed at organisations in Co Cork which aid rural development because they still haven’t received funding from central government and there’s fears that many worthy projects will also be put on hold as a result.

Pat's there to stay.

County councillors have reacted with fury to news that Irish Water has again rowed back on promises to provide a drought-stricken village with a proper supply.

Midleton CBS 0-25 Thurles CBS 2-13: Defending champions Midleton CBS were given a serious shock by Thurles CBS in round 2 of the Dean Ryan Cup at Fermoy before they eventually sealed their progress in extra-time.

Hidden cameras, a name-and-shame policy and education programmes are among the likely proposals being considered by Cork County Council chiefs to halt public littering.

When the Rose of Tralee International Festival was launched in 1959, nobody realised how long it would run for or how much it would mean to so many people, the first ever Rose has said.

The newly-elected mayor of Co Cork has declared his intention to be a candidate in the next general election, but has not decided what constituency he will contest.

Cork County Council is preparing to take eight legal cases against AIB because the bank has refused to release insurance policies it holds on developers who have not finished off ghost estates.

Plans by Irish Water to revitalise a drought-stricken village’s water supply have been described as “completely off the wall”, and dismissed as “throwing water into a hole”.

The chief executive of Cork County Council says a national database of electoral registers should be set up to ensure people are not denied a vote.

Cork County Council is taking legal action to recoup an insurance policy to fix what has been dubbed “the worst ghost estate in Ireland”.

Two villages in north Cork are expected to have longstanding water supply problems resolved in the near future.

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People on the housing waiting list in County Cork may get a boost if the local authority is successful with its plea to the National Housing Agency (NHA) to instruct Nama to allocate vacant homes.

A decision to engage private contractors to partly operate flood defence barriers in a Co Cork town was yesterday condemned as "absolutely crazy".

Cork County Council has become the first local authority to commit to cutting the local property tax (LPT) by 15%.

More roads that ever before will be gritted in Co Cork if there is a repeat of the severe cold snap of Dec 2010 — and maps detailing the routes covered have just been posted online by the county council.

George Morgan had an interesting excuse for missing school yesterday.

Cork County Council is to seek legal advice on whether it can ban the “importation” into the county of manure which has been claimed to contain chicken carcasses and which has led to an outbreak of botulism in cattle.

Cork County Council may be forced to sell some of its affordable housing stock to developers as its not getting offers anyway near the market value from the public.

Four potential sites have been identified in Cork for a national sugar beet processing factory.

Council housing tenants facing rent increases in parts of Co Cork will have to get proof from Money & Advice Budgeting Service (Mabs) to show an inability to pay any extra.