At a meeting in County Hall, many of the 55 councillors gave examples of problems in their various areas. They have decided to write a “strongly-worded” email to John Halligan, junior minister at the Department of Education & Skills, urging him to get more and bigger buses to solve the issue.

A man arrested for driving while uninsured, disqualified and while intoxicated started headbutting the windows of a patrol car, while his female companion struck a garda across the face, a court has been told.

Joe Dermody talks to directors of Carbery Group, which has just published its accounts for 2018.

Going through the village of Ballineen the other night, I was stopped by the guards.

Carbery held open days for its suppliers and their families this week to mark 50 years since production commenced at the site in Ballineen, Co Cork.

Show organisers have eye and ear for the right musical talent to match the region’s prize farm animals, writes Denis Lehane

Rapidly growing satellite town Carrigaline could be divided into two local election areas.

Killeen Farmhouse, Co Galway, was the big Irish winner at the 2018 British Cheese Awards which took place at the Royal Bath and West Show in Somerset, England.

John Young won the JJ Murphy Cup at Bauravilla following a brilliant contest with Jimmy O’Driscoll.

A West Cork community has been urged to play a meaningful role in securing its village post office, following the death of a postmaster last month.

A minister has intervened in a bid to save a village post office in West Cork after the widow of the postmaster was informed just days after his funeral it would be closed.

It may not have looked it yesterday as people across West Cork surveyed the fallout from Hurricane Ophelia, but the area might have escaped the worst of the damage.

Three men remain in Garda custody in connection with burglaries and criminal damage in County Cork.

Ireland’s food and farm industries are in a state of suspense due to the Brexit question mark over the main market for their produce, the UK.

The Brexit threat is the gravest agri-business has ever faced in Ireland, bosses at Dairygold have warned. Dairygold chief executive Jim Woulfe said dairy, beef and rural industry faced a crisis if a hard Brexit occurred, an event which he said had “gigantic repercussions” for Ireland.

James O’Donovan is the first name on the Willie Whelton Cup after a sensational performance saw him beat All-Ireland champion Thomas Mackle by three bowls of odds at Grange.

A young hero who saved a woman from drowning, a compassionate teenager who had endured much in recent years, and two brothers who have battled against the odds with their health, are among those honoured in the West Cork Garda Youth Awards.

Tim O’Connor returns from the kitchen with a pot of tea and two slices of currant cake before being drawn to a stack of sheets piled on the living room table.

Trish Dromey reports on a Victorian-era house nestled in the hills of Ballineen, West Cork.

Carbery Group has reported an increase to €25m in its 2015 operating profits, up from €18.3m in 2014, plus a 33% rise in earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and amortisation to shareholders on a turnover of €349.5m.

Members of the emergency services, who came to the rescue of scores of people in Bandon twice last December, were hailed as heroes at the annual West Cork Community Awards on Friday night.

Ray Ryan finds tea and coffee specialists feature prominently among participants in the FoodService Academy programme. 

I read in the local newspapers that the Lyre Volunteer Company (between Clonakilty and Ballineen) is to be commemorated with a monument costing €8,000 though it took no active part in the 1916 Rising.

The main restoration work has been done to this West Cork farmhouse at Shanagh, near Ballineen and Dunmanway — so any final finishes will bring it along to be a fine country pad, says auctioneer Ray O’Neill.

One of Celtic mythology’s great romantic figures, a legendary warrior at the centre of a passionate love triangle, is buried in a remote West Cork graveyard, according to a soon-to-be-published book.

A record-breaking fireman is turning up the heat for his latest challenge — last year he broke a Guinness World Record running the Cork City Marathon in full firefighting gear and now he wants to break another one, by running the entire length of Ireland in less than four days.

Carbery has delivered earnings of €27.2m to its shareholders in 2014, up 1.9%, while profits dipped slightly versus 2013.

Last week, I wrote about the increasing destruction of habitats in marginal areas, where, in the cause of creating more grassland for more cattle to make more beef and now more milk — bedrock is smashed and removed and the land scraped of all the wild and hardy vegetation that has evolved there since the last Ice Age.

John Shorten beat Wayne Callanan by almost a bowl in the Billy Molloy Cup at Whitechurch. 

Former Minister for Agriculture Joe Walsh has died at the age of 71.

Conall ÓFatharta’s report, Irish Examiner Aug 25, on the very high infant deaths at Bessborough House in the 1940s is not merely stale news but also absurdly unbalanced as it omits crucial facts. The principal blame lay with the state regulators, not the nuns – and certainly not with religion or the Catholic Church.

A relative of Protestant victims of a notorious War of Independence-era triple execution linked to a bloody massacre has issued an emotional appeal for help tracing the bodies of the victims.

IT’S been a rapid ascent for Cork actor, Roisin O’Neill.

The principal of one of the schools involved in the first black card controversy has hit out at comments suggesting members of their management team inappropriately influenced officials during the contested fixture.

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