Work to identify route options for the proposed €1bn Cork light rail system is set to get under way next month.

Food news with Joe McNamee

The incredible life of Ireland’s first celebrity chef has been turned into a play, writes Colette Sheridan

A devastating ten minute period after half-time propelled Fr O’Neill’s into the quarter-finals of the Cork PIHC as they saw off the challenge of Fermoy at Ballynoe yesterday.

Almost one in five primary school children were in classes of 30 or more last year, with six schools recorded as having classrooms with 40 or more pupils.

Local politics in Fermoy has been a game of musical chairs of sorts with representatives not just giving up county council positions for Dáil seats, but also swapping parties since the last local elections.

The National Transport Authority says it hopes to achieve some quick-wins on the bus and rail network once its ambitious €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area is adopted.

A €1bn 25-stop light-rail system linking Ballincollig to Mahon via a new docklands bridge is among the proposals contained in the long-awaited Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy (CMATS).

Work on a €1bn light rail system for Cork will not start until 2031 at the earliest with the focus in the interim on improved roads and increased bus lanes.

A €1bn light rail system between Ballincollig and Mahon Point via the city centre, as well as eight new railway stations and 100km of bus lanes, are contained in a radical new transport plan for Cork.

Trainer Mick Winters took the honours on Cork’s Easter Monday card, completing a double with Littlestickarubarb and Osca Loca.

Michael Moynihan looks ahead to five intriguing games taking place this Easter weekend.

County councillors have said it is “sinful” and “unbelievable” that 57 acres of local authority-owned land has lain unused in a Co Cork town for more than 20 years.

The number of garda stations without a permanent garda has continued to rise, despite a net increase of 600 in the size of the force last year.

Cork-based Leanne McDonagh has brought an artist’s eye to her photographs of Travellers and their accommodation, writes Marjorie Brennan.

A Co Cork farmhouse cheese dairy has been allocated €150,000 in funding under the LEADER programme for a €300,000 construction project.

After the great storm, the big clean up. As crews start to work around Co Cork, much of the fallout from Storm Ophelia will centre on the Cobh area.

Tommy Barker views a fine Co Cork home

Denis Walsh’s life, so many ways, has been a weave of Cork and Waterford.

Donal O’Keeffe tells the story of the mobile library service which brings a sense of community and joy to people of all ages.

A growing number of towns and villages with Garda stations no longer have a dedicated garda, with eight stations losing their last permanent officer last year.

Tommy Barker reports on a superb family home which has road, rail and river access for commuting.

Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a wind farm in east Cork for the second time in two years.

Today, March 31

Lives are being put at risk as mobile phone coverage has become so poor in recent months in several parts of Cork county.

Thursday, March 24

A further sample of what was making the columns of the Cork Examiner 100 years ago this week

The Paul Kiely-trained Inchiquin High is developing into a competent point-to-point performer and the seven-year-old supplemented last month’s Killeagh success by landing a cracking mares’ winners of two at yesterday’s well-attended Knockanard fixture, run under the auspices of the Avondhu Foxhounds.

Donegal’s Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) crowned a magnificent season with victory on the Acesigns Signmakers Cork “20” International Rally, the final round of the Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Championship.

Urban gangs who target vulnerable rural areas to commit hit-and-run burglaries are to be targeted under new Government surveillance measures.