Residents of the Gaeltacht in west Cork were placed at risk of consuming inadequately disinfected water over an extended period last year, a report by an environmental watchdog reveals.

I went to Berlin last week, a city I’ve never before been to. I’d intended to visit the zoo, although I disapprove of zoos but it’s the biggest zoo in Europe and has a giant aquarium. I’d look at exhibits of creatures that didn’t mind confinement, because they never go anywhere anyway, tarantulas and things that live under stones.

Dan Hallissey has been farming full time in Ballymakeera, Co Cork, for 26 years, and this has been the longest winter housing period for livestock that he has had to deal with.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) has unveiled a €20m flood relief plan which will protect around 90 homes and businesses in two adjoining villages in mid-Cork.

A Co Cork mechanical services company with debts of almost €2m and 160 employees is beyond saving, the High Court has been told.

Archaeologists have discovered 30 previously unknown ancient sites along the proposed Macroom bypass route, including a Bronze Age ring fort.

The vendors of this mid-Cork farmhouse conversion are world-travellers who brought back more than souvenirs from their travels abroad....they even brought back stone for their renovtations, along with some lofty ideas for their homefront.

A Sinn Féin MEP was yesterday convicted and fined for speeding.

A €142,800 award has been made to a Polish teacher who was struck by the rear of a truck as he cycled past it on a narrow footpath on the lorry driver’s left-hand side.

A Polish school principal cycling in West Cork described how he feared for his life after being struck by a lorry.

Surgeons were last night attempting to reattach a man’s arm after it was sliced off in a workplace accident yesterday morning.

Buyers from the UK and from Donegal to Waterford were bidding for the many five star bulls on offer at Tullamore in the Hereford Society’s Premier Bull Sale.

The house price has been cut to tempt buyers. Tommy Barker reports

A MILE from Ballyvourney village, a 70-acre farm holding has just been listed with Killian Lynch Auctioneers, and the non-residential holding is for sale by private treaty.

THE announcement that a new all-Irish, second-level school is to open in Carrigaline, Co Cork, in 2014 has been welcomed by county councillors.

I HAVE recently spent a week touring by car through the midlands to Donegal and Northern Ireland.

LONG-suffering residents are set to protest tomorrow at the appalling condition of a national primary road which runs through two mid-Cork villages.

A gang rammed a garda car last night following a smash and grab in Co Cork.

THE long-awaited bypass of a notorious bottleneck in Co Cork is back on track.

SAMPLE testing for lead in the drinking water supply is to start later this week in 11 areas within the environs of Mallow, Co Cork.

NO MORE bull — deliver the bypass.

A GROUP has vowed to increase pressure on the Government to deliver the delayed bypass of a Cork town.

YOUR report (April 24) on the forthcoming ‘Lee Valley road closure’ relates to the N22 between Macroom and Ballymakeera.

GARDAÍ are searching for a gang who carried out a ram-raid on a toy factory and robbed a construction firm, hardware shop, tool hire business and carpet store.

SHAME on you for publishing such an ignorant piece of rubbish on global warming by your columnist Steven King (Irish Examiner, November 8).

Folláin preserves, based in Cúil-Aodha, west Cork, have just joined forces with Horgan’s Delicatessen Supplies in order to distribute its award-winning range of preserves to retail outlets throughout the country.

NEIGHBOURS of north Cork shotgun victim, Charlie Wrench, have paid tribute to the “somewhat bohemian” but highly respected member of the community who was so dedicated to his children.

A MAJOR construction company has submitted proposals for an estimated €120 million housing project in Co Cork.

CORK County Council has granted a number of significant planning permissions, including an extension to the Rochestown Park Hotel, which will make it the second largest hotel in Munster.

THE 1972 Olympics are featured in a controversial Steven Spielberg movie called Munich later this month - but pentathlon athlete Margaret Murphy was there at the real games.

THE Ballincollig by-pass has driven prices for house sites between Ballincollig and Macroom upwards by as much as €100,000 in the past year.

FIANNA FÁIL could lose its two Dáil seats in Cork North-West if all three candidates do not comply with a very tight voting pact, Deputy Michael Moynihan warned yesterday.

WITH the cúpla focail, it’s possible to qualify for home improvement grants in the Gaeltacht areas in the country.