Cork is renowned as a sports-mad city, boasting a rich seam of success in all codes, whose heroes on the field of play attain iconic status.

This year marks a milestone in the life of North Cork dealership, Cavanaghs of Charleville, as it celebrates 50 years as a Ford main dealer.

Mercedes fans, you can exhale now. Your wait for the new E-Class will end in April.

Paul Bradford admits it’s going to be an uphill battle for the fledgling party, writes Sean O’Riordan

The generosity of Tom Cavanagh in donating €45,000 towards the purchase of a Garda bus to support community policing in Gurranabraher (Irish Examiner, April 17) is commendable.

A businessman and philanthropist who donated a €45,000 bus to a community Garda unit in Cork has urged more wealthy people to give back to disadvantaged communities.

Government plans to abolish town councils may have a negative impact on efforts to control litter, Irish Business Against Litter has warned.

Dublin city centre has been given a clean bill of health for the first time in the 18 years of a national litter survey.

Irish Business Against Litter’s annual Anti-Litter League results have been delivering good news in the first week of January for a number of years now.

One in five shop and office premises in the country’s large towns are empty and becoming magnets for litter and dumping, a survey by anti-litter campaigners has found.

Irish businesses have lauded towns across the country for cleaning up their act and keeping streets free of litter.

The increase sales of in car, lorry and 4x4 during the economic boom means Ireland’s pollution levels now exceed EU standards.

Kilkenny has been named as the cleanest city in Ireland by the Irish Business Against Litter group.

Ireland’s tidiest town is poised to make a clean sweep today.

‘Welcome to Ireland, home of litter’ — the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) group has said visitors are faced with the wrong impression of the country due to rubbish-strewn roads on Dublin’s north side.

Litter wardens should regularly give on-the-spot fines to businesses who fail to clean up their surrounds and car-parks, according to Irish Business Against Litter.

A COUNCILLOR who represents a community labelled one of the country’s worst litter blackspots has launched a blistering attack on an anti-litter group.

BUSINESSES leaders have hit back at a survey which found that parts of Dublin were a litter blackspot.

Businesses leaders have hit back at a survey which found parts of the capital were a litter blackspot.

ALMOST 70% of Ireland’s towns and three of its six cities are litter free, Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) has reported.

ANTI-LITTER campaigners have called on the Government to launch an initiative to get major companies to sponsor the clean-up of the national road network.

The much-loved “better than the average” bear who made his TV debut in l958 makes a big-screen appearance … one wonders why.

CARLOW is Ireland’s cleanest town according to the results of a national litter league table announced yesterday.

The south-east has come up trumps in the latest litter survey by An Taisce.

CITIZENS can alert local authorities to litter blackspots under an initiative by the Irish Business Against Litter organisation after its latest survey showed a fall-off in the number of litter-free towns.

A new campaign to tidy up key tourist areas is being criticised by a major anti-litter group.

IRELAND’S key tourist entry points are covered in blankets of rubbish which make for “an appalling sight” that is seriously damaging the already frail economy.

LITTER bugs in Kerry are facing a new name-and-shame policy which will see offenders’ identities being published in the local press.

Good planting, spotless car parks and an impeccable promenade have all helped the seaside town of Bray scoop the crown of Ireland's cleanest town.

I WOULD firstly like to commend Cork County Council for the recent clean-up operation on the main Cork-Dublin road between the Jack Lynch Tunnel and the Glanmire exit.

THE four Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) quarter-finals take place this afternoon with some cracking games in the offing.

THE Dublin seaside town of Howth is celebrating being named as the cleanest place in Ireland.

TALLAGHT has been declared Ireland’s most improved town for tackling litter, as opposed to a year ago when it was declared a black spot.

CORK’S city manager has described as “regrettable and misleading” a survey that ranked the city as the country’s most littered.

VISITORS to our cities and towns are unlikely to find us any dirtier than our European neighbours, according to the latest litter survey.

ONE shy of first place in 2006, Dundalk was not to be outdone this time around in its quest to capture the title of cleanest town in Ireland.

NEARLY half of on-the-spot litter fines issued are struck off by local authorities, according to Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL).

Heather Graham is Gray, a fun-loving gal, whose relationship with her brother, Sam (Tom Cavanagh), is close, so close that she feels threatened when romance arrives in the shape of Charlie (Bridget Moynahan), and jealousy takes over.

The Government was today urged to introduce penalty points to punish litter-bug motorists.

THE town of Newbridge in Co Kildare was last night named and shamed as Ireland’s worst place for litter.

DUBLIN’S multi-million tourist industry is on the line under the terms of a new European-wide litter survey.

A PORTRAIT of a couple who have worked tirelessly for University College Cork for almost two decades was unveiled yesterday in the college building named after them.