The Cork-Kerry border-lands between Newmarket and Castleisland have productive agricultural activity on land that is mainly elevated, and of mixed quality.

Plans by Lidl to replace its existing outlet in Fermoy with a large, new store have been approved, despite opposition from a rival supermarket owner.

Gardaí continue to search for a man who left the scene of the murder of Conor Quinn in Mallow, Co Cork, on Thursday night.

Anglers and conservationists throughout Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford were joined by watersports clubs at the weekend to protest the damage to a salmon weir and the risks to migratory fish on the famed Blackwater River.

HAVING last sold for the equivalent of ‘small potatoes,’ and after a costly €1.5m plus rolling refurb, Youghal’s beach-fronting Walter Raleigh Hotel — named for Youghal’s most famous resident Walter Raleigh, of tobacco and potato popularising renown — is back for sale, it is increasingly profitable and now carries a €2.5 million price tag.

Fears have been expressed that one of the country’s best known angling rivers could soon be devoid of salmon and cost the economy millions of euro in lost revenue.

Three major exhibitions are to be held in Cork this week dealing with the potential for flooding in a number of areas and what measures can be taken to mitigate against it.

These devout Cistercian nuns usually don’t covet the limelight but needs must, says Donal O’Keeffe

A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter who were killed three days before Christmas.

A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a mother and daughter who were killed three days before Christmas, writes Joe Leogue.

Developers will breathe a sigh of relief when EU-designation status to protect the freshwater pearl mussel in Co Cork is lifted.

UPDATE: UCC has expressed its sincerest sympathies to the family of the student who died, along with her mother, in yesterday's road accident in Co Cork.

Clare County Council recently voted through the incorporation of the Northern Distributor Road and the re-zoning of lands in south east Clare into the Clare County Development Plan.

I have managed a fishery in Ballyduff Upper on the Blackwater River for the past 10 years. My records show a dramatic decline in salmon returning to the system — in fact a 60% drop in the last five years.

A landmark viewing stand overlooking the Blackwater River in Youghal is likely to collapse into the sea after Cork County Council reportedly decided it was too expensive to restore.

WITH the daffodils just popping up now among the anemones and snowdrops in its front drive, and under old chestnut trees, Woodville House is a River Blackwater treasure, and an early-season Munster market arrival.

JOINING Savills’ offer of the Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary for sale at €2.75m, and the 110-bed Heritage Hotel in Portlaoise for €1.5m, is another Munster hotel — a beachside offer at €450,000, just waiting for the tide of opportunity to turn.

IF the Scots vote yes on Thursday, rest assured that will not be the end of the story.

Animal welfare campaigners have warned of a growing problem of horses being abandoned on public and private property and left to fend for themselves.

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WE have parked opposite the old Post Office, marked on the OS map. Before setting off, we should certainly retrace our steps to the Blackwater Bridge — we will be re-crossing it on our return, but viewing it before we start will make us aware, when we see the Blackwater River upstream, of how romantic and wild it is in this gorge.

Fáilte Ireland claims Eirgrid’s controversial plans to upgrade the electricity network between Munster and Leinster have ignored internationally-used guidelines for the selection of routes of high voltage power lines.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

Photographer George Munday hopes to realise his dream by crowd-funding, where supporters pledge funds in advance.

30 years ago today Captain Ruben Ocana’s Gulfstream II made an unexpected landing on Mallow Racecourse, Ray Ryan recalls

Maybe it really was all about welcoming the new year or perhaps it was more of a glad good riddance to the old one, but whatever the reason for the mood around the country over the last 48 hours, it was certainly celebratory.

A post mortem will be carried out later on the body of a 19-year-old man, who drowned in Co Cork yesterday.

Having lived next to Fermoy’s Blackwater River for over two decades, I was amazed by UCC Professor Robert Devoy’s claim on RTÉ’s Primetime that Fermoy’s floods were in some way caused by the building of the bridge.

A WEIR on one of the country’s finest salmon fisheries is to be removed after a long-running legal battle was settled.

ANGLING is one of those activities that tends to divide people into two groups; those for whom it is an all-consuming passion and those who consider sitting on a cold rock with a worm on the end of a long stick as complete folly.

BUSINESS and tourism interests have warned of a “negative impact” for an east Cork town where planning was granted for a sludge treatment plant.

ELECTIONS campaigns can blissfully spin in their own space as if happening on another planet.

ALL Slow Food events have an educational element as well as a hedonistic one. So when we gathered in Lismore recently we started our evening at Michael McGrath butcher’s shop on Main Street. We were all anxious to learn from this man whose skills have come down through four generations – his father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

A SURGE of interest in a 28-acre Co Kerry offering has hit Killarney auctioneer Michael Coghlan of the Sherry FitzGerald Sherry FitzGerald alliance — who reckons that half the world now want a lifestyle change and a move to the country.