Traders in Cork city centre have called for “open, clear and honest consultation” before any decisions are made on the location of a supervised drug injection centre.

A study has identified Cork’s quays and nearby streets as blackspots for drug injecting and as possible sites for a supervised injecting centre.

CONSTRUCTION work will roll from one block to another at Cork city’s largest ever office scheme, Navigation Square, over the next three years, pledged developer Brian O’Callaghan this week.

A man whose mother died while sleeping rough in Cork last year says he is now on the verge of ending up on the streets with his pregnant girlfriend.

The niece of a homeless woman who died on the streets of Cork last week has urged the Government to address the homelessness crisis as a matter of urgency saying her “funny and caring” aunt should not have lost her life for the want of a bed for the night.

Another tier of support is urgently needed to ensure homeless people who are barred or ejected from emergency shelters do not have to sleep on the streets.

Early morning commuters walked past a dead homeless woman on a Cork City street before her body was found.

A couple who were homeless broke into a house in the hope of finding a place to stay and yesterday they were both jailed for four months.

A couple who were homeless adn who claimed they broke into a house in the hope of finding someplace to stay were both jailed for four months yesterday.

Comments by a local authority official, that homelessness takes “years of bad behaviour”, showed no awareness of the role trauma plays in people’s lives, according to the director of Cork Simon.

A young woman claimed she was sexually assaulted in a hotel room in Cork after meeting a man at a night spot in the city.

Vicious and unprovoked assaults were carried out by a man in two separate attacks where he stamped on a man’s head and kicked a woman full force in the head.

The partner of the young woman who was found dead at Sheares St, Cork City, on Sunday was in court yesterday charged with assault causing harm to a young man on Monday.

The location of two, 19th century stone warehouse buildings (plus an investment property currently let out as an adult shop,) on a central 0.42 of a Cork city centre acre put up for imaginative redevelopment is what underpins an asking price close to €2m, for the property and site’s owners and vendors, Cork City Council.

The legacy of the late Owen O’Callaghan can be seen throughout his native Cork and beyond.

Companies considering locating in Cork may be lured by favourable terms to accommodate staff in a new, purpose-delivered, build-to-let apartment investment, as part of a proposed, mixed-used city centre project at Horgan’s Quay.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has called on the US authorities to sanction transatlantic flights from Cork in the wake of the Brexit vote.

The Port of Cork is set to put the city’s historic Custom House on the market in the coming weeks as it advances plans to relocate to Ringaskiddy.

After almost a decade in the doldrums, renewed activity is expected across a number of fronts in Cork city’s docklands and quays in 2016, with knock-on effects on major sites downriver in Cork harbour including Marino Point and Ringaskiddy.

Gardaí had to go to a Mass in Cork City to arrest a man who was so drunk he was a source of danger in the church.

Two of the country’s leading developers have warned that a merger of Cork city and county councils could cost jobs and investment and be “hugely damaging” for the future of the city.

Motorists have been warned to expect delays and consider diversions as one of Cork City’s busiest bridges closes for two months of maintenance from Monday.

A member of staff at Cork Simon Community was punched in the eye by a man who had been refused admission to the shelter.

The decision by a property investment company to pay up to €58m for an office block nine months ahead of completion, should give confidence to the developers of other major development in the pipeline for Cork city, the Cork Chamber has said.

HIGH vacancy levels on Cork City’s South Mall may finally be reversed, with an overall rise in the economy, and in the demand for professional services and indigenous offices.

Here are eight projects that could rejuvenate Cork City.

€500m in developments will rejuvenate city but planning is key, writes Eoin English

Several strategic investment projects worth almost €500m will transform Cork City and generate thousands of jobs over the next few years, the city’s business leaders were told last night.

An unruly incident at the back of the Fox and Hounds was yesterday blamed on a bit of luck on the horses.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan has confirmed plans to build a fourth-generation office block on a Cork City site which had been earmarked for an events and conference centre.

The family of one of two homeless people whose bodies were taken from the River Lee on Sunday night has asked that donations be made to the Cork Simon Community.

The double tragedy in Cork at the weekend highlights the lonely and troubled existence of those living on the margins, the head of Cork Simon has said.

Plans for a €60m flood relief scheme for Cork have been described as "visually illiterate" by a local author who fears some of the city’s historic riverside fixtures will be lost as part of the project.

Gardaí last night sealed off part of Simon Community centre in Cork City as they carried out what sources described as an inquiry into the “suspicious death” of a man who was stabbed in the neck a few days earlier.

The family of a woman who was crushed by a bus has called on Bus Éireann to review the positioning of ticket machines in its fleet after it emerged that one of the devices blocked a driver’s view seconds before the tragic accident.

An elderly man was in a serious condition in hospital last night after he was knocked down by a bus outside Cork City’s main bus station yesterday.

Owen O’Callaghan is one of the few property developers who is still trading successfully five years after the property market first fell off a cliff.

Gardaí have identified the truck they believe was responsible for the spillage of hundreds of gallons of animal fat which caused several accidents on roads around Cork yesterday.

THE father of a missing student has urged people to focus on a specific part of Cork city after CCTV images tracked his son’s movements away from the River Lee.

The woman who has been on trial for several weeks for the murder of a young Cork man whose body was found in a field in Kerry walked free this afternoon when the trial judge directed the jury to find her not guilty.

THE lawyer for the woman on trial for several weeks for the murder of a young Corkman whose body was found in a field in Kerry claimed yesterday there was absolutely no evidence against her.

THE body of a young man was kept in the boot of a car parked in a residential part of the Turner’s Cross area of Cork city for four days before being driven to a field in Kerry, the man accused of murdering him said yesterday.

A MURDER-accused told a trial yesterday: “I am heartbroken over my friend, I cannot understand how he died — I wasn’t hitting him that hard.”