Serious concerns have been raised over the future of a bridge which is a main route into a Co Cork coastal town.

They came to offer advice, but ended up impressed by the military-like precision, including an improvised "command and control" post, which a community has been using to prevent Irish Water contractors laying meters.

Having tweaked their house design to suit their preferences 11 years ago, now that it’s time to sell and move on, the owners of No 6 Cois Fota are bound to have mixed feelings.

Cork County Council has set up a specialist engineering department which will look at protecting its 1,100km coastline from the effects of storms and rising seas caused by global warming.

It wouldn’t do for hundreds of thousands of visitors to have to navigate through bunkers on a road instead of an adjoining golf course — which is why a road repair project is being fast-tracked ahead of the Irish Open.

Up to 14,000 people could be in danger of being cut off if gale force winds and flooding were to damage the only bridge leading into a town in Co Cork.

Flooding is causing problems in parts of Co Cork this evening.

There have been renewed calls for flood defences in Cork after the city and county were hit by flooding for the second night in a row.

EDDIE ENGLISH, who runs a sailing school in Cobh, has no doubt about it: People in Cork city and county have a “chip on their shoulder” when it comes to his home town.

THERE should be a border crossing at Belvelly Bridge because going to Cobh is like entering another country — and another time.

THERE are Fota estuary and golf course views from The Bungalow, at Ballard, in Cork harbour.

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A TOWN that economic success overlooked is determined to get back on track with a blueprint for the future.