The Mayor of County Cork has offered to act as an honest broker to ensure the GAA holds the Liam Miller memorial fundraiser in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Road repairs, grass-cutting, and other services are not being delivered to a lot of people in Co Cork as the local authority is starved of money due to the Government taking 20% of the local property tax (LPT).

County councillors are to ask the heads of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland to visit North-West Cork in a push to have more industries located there after a factory closure in Kanturk.

The father of a two-year-old girl says she was lucky not to have been blinded when she went down a slide covered in bleach in a Kerry playground.

Gardaí in Kerry are investigating after the slide in Tralee Town Park was covered in bleach over the weekend.

Cork County Council has promised to look into hardship cases after a new rent system introduced for its tenants saw an 80-year-old man’s rent double overnight.

A steering committee is to be set up to develop more motorhome parking sites in County Cork, especially in areas where tourism is not popular.

Ambulance crews have warned that county roads in Cork are in such a bad condition that it is taking longer to transport seriously ill patients to hospital.

Nearly 30% more suspected drink-drivers have been arrested in Cork city and county in the past three months compared to the same period last year.

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We interviewed Cork's Timmy Collins after Midleton CBS defeated Ardscoil Ris at Bansha, Co Tipperary, to reach the semi-final of the Harty Cup.

Many villages throughout North Cork have little or no mobile phone reception and the situation, it has been alleged, is deteriorating.

Irish Water is in hot water with Cork county councillors who allege that it doesn’t answer calls, is stalling on projects, and has sent letters to at least two householders who have been dead for nearly five years.

Fianna Fáil have regained control of Cork County Council for the first time since 1991 after cobbling together a loose coalition with seven of the 10 Independents and two Labour councillors.

Independents and Sinn Féin are likely to be the biggest winners come next year’s local elections in Co Cork.

THE largest party on the largest local authority in Ireland is set to meet today to hammer out who will lead it and who will be its candidate for mayor.

WICKLOW easily beat Roscommon in a one-sided Christy Ring Cup match at Athleague on Saturday.

Roscommon 0-12 Wicklow 3-21

MAYO manager John Maughan yesterday admitted he expects rising county star Austin O’Malley to start against New York on Sunday.