Engineers are warning of up to three months of traffic disruption after unveiling plans to demolish and replace a defective road bridge on the boundary between Cork city and county.

 

Councillors will get a chance midweek to press Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe about the importance of building a bypass to relieve congestion in a grid-locked Cork town.

Government funding will not be available for a long-awaited road project linking Cork and Kerry, according to Transport Minister Leo Varadkar.

Stunning farm and period property at Warrensgrove is being sold in one lot.

The earliest known settlers in Co Cork were hunter-gatherers who lived near Fermoy more than 10,100 years ago.

Location: Ballincollig, Cork

ENABLE Ireland/Lavanagh Centre is buying a seven-acre site west of Cork City for future development/relocation uses.

This 4,500 sq ft, five-bedroom house in Cork’s Carrigrohane has a movie screen in red velvet-clad basement room, says Tommy Barker

A quality, one-off family home built with the best of materials. Tommy Barker reports

HOME at last — the Munster Agricultural Society (MAS) has finally found permanent exhibition grounds at Curraheen, Cork, following five years of searching.

A NEW €58 million palliative care centre and hospital was officially opened yesterday in Cork following the successful transfer of patients from the facility’s previous home on the northside of the city.

Work gets underway on a €100m road project in Cork today.

EDWARD CUMMINS’S brutal and callous murder bore all the hallmarks of a “professional” gangland hit.

FACING the lichen covered walls of St Peter’s Church at Carrigrohane, the Hayfield estate is maturing nicely, nearly 10 years on from being built.

THERE are some quirky buys in the market at the moment and this one, close to Farran Woods, might appeal to qualifying buyers.

KILLUMNEY village is an attractive little hub in mid-Cork with a shop, a pub and a co-op. It combines the best of little Ireland with fast access to Ballincollig and Cork city.

THE buzz is back in the Cork Summer Show, which was held at a new venue in Ballincollig over the weekend.

THE 168-year-old Cork Summer Show will begin another exciting era when it is held at a new venue in Ballincollig on June 20/21.

A SHIFT in agent and a reduced selling price makes this Crookstown, Co Cork bungalow one for review.

IN future, the private sector may have to help Ireland’s largest local authority fund vital projects such as water and sewerage schemes.

GAA legend Jimmy Barry Murphy has backed bikers hoping to raise money for a new €75 million cancer hospice in Cork.

TREACHEROUS weather conditions led to scores of accidents throughout Cork yesterday, the worst of which resulted in the closure of the county’s only motorway.

THE first warning shots were fired last April but the real battle begins today.

THERE’S a great sense of space in No 65 Fernwalk — a big house on a big site, it’s a well-designed property with all rooms fanning out from a long, central corridor.

An aerial view of Ballinvoultig, Waterfall, which sold for €5.5m in one lot.

64 Woodberry, Greenfields has a guide price of €770,000. With a high standard of finish throughout, the house is just off theBallincollig bypass in Cork.

A MAJOR battle is looming over plans to build a crucial section of Cork’s proposed northern ring road across the Lee Valley.

A PLUM property falls in time for mid-season buyers looking to trade up in Cork’s western suburbs.

THE preferred route for part of the most expensive highway ever planned for Cork will be unveiled this morning.

IT IS one of those homes that gets better with age: 15 Apsely Court is a c 20 year old bungalow in one of the very first O’Flynn Construction schemes, built in Killumney, Co Cork.

THE Department of the Environment yesterday granted a licence for an archaeological excavation of a ring fort which is on the site of the proposed new headquarters of Cork County Fire Brigade.

THREE students from Athlone Institute of Technology are being treated for serious injuries after they were struck by a car in Athlone, Co Westmeath, early yesterday.

PLANS for a 6,000 to 10,000-seat events arena similar to Belfast’s Odyssey Arena have been proposed for a site west of Cork city as a new home for the Munster Showgrounds.

VILLAGE life beckons at Tulira, in mid-Cork’s Crookstown — a bus ride from the city centre, but a world away from the hustle and bustle.

BACK to back, these houses at the Daffodil Fields at Poulavone, Ballincollig, offer a safe playing space for children, says Michael Downey of ERA Downey McCarthy Murphy.

THE last of six detached houses in a new scheme at Tarelton village in mid-Cork is now on offer at €350,000.

Sean O’Riordan

PITCHED squarely at the trading up market in Cork's western suburbs is Carrig, a solid, four-square and upgraded family home on a large site just off the popular Model Farm Road.

AS a family trader-up home, Brook Lodge has a lot going for it. The 2,250 sq ft dormer home is in Ballyburden, in popular Waterfall, just a few minutes' drive from Cork's western suburbs.

CORK County Council officials are to proceed with buying land to build a west-bound slip road connecting the Curraheen interchange with the Ballincollig bypass, despite the fact the National Roads Authority doesn’t think it is necessary at this time.

MORE than 50,000 vehicles are using the Jack Lynch Tunnel each working day, and that figure is expected to rise even further when the final section of the Ballincollig bypass comes on stream and the Mahon Point shopping centre opens for business.