Housing officials in Cork city have launched a second bid to identify sites for social housing after the first initiative helped deliver more than 160 units in less than a year.

A Cork Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor settled her compensation case yesterday for an injury while working as a home help.

The owners have ensured No 175 Blarney St is no traditional terrace house, writes Trish Dromey.

The chief executive of Cork City Council has defended a €32,000 spend on its dog fouling awareness campaign after figures showed just one fine has been issued for the offence in seven years.

The theft of a mobile phone from a man who lay unconscious on the street was compared to grave-robbing by a sentencing judge yesterday.

A profile corner site at the end of what’s often described as the longest city street in Cork, Blarney St, is for sale.

A six-month jail sentence was imposed yesterday on a man who had a slash-hook in a car outside a school.

Armed gardaí rushed to Blarney St, in Cork City, when it was reported that a man was brandishing a firearm. They saw the armed man hide behind a parked car.

A drug addict who burgled and burned the home of an 81-year-old widower, who had to be restrained by neighbours from retrieving memorabilia of his late wife from the blaze, has lost an appeal against sentence.

A man who got talking to an 84-year-old neighbour who was going shopping burgled his home when he was out and set fire to it — causing over €150,000 damage and destroying irreplaceable mementos of his late wife.

Residents of a Cork suburb have warned they will take to the streets if their area is not added to a tax incentive scheme designed to encourage regeneration.

The father of a then 14-year-old boy who it is claimed received alleged sub-standard care while in a respite home over 20 years ago has brought a High Court action for damages.

Carbon monoxide alarms are to be made available to thousands of older and vulnerable people following a major review of a government grant scheme.

The hero neighbour who saved two elderly sisters from almost certain death from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning is to receive the Cork Person of the Month award.

The man who treated himself to a Christmas holiday at the five-star Hayfield Manor and leaving without paying his bill of over €3,000 and similar offences totalling €3,000 at two other Cork hotels and a guesthouse over the holiday period last year will spend this Christmas behind bars.

Michael Noonan announced a 40c increase in the price of an old reliable — at the same time 260km away, a muffled groan went up in the Old Reliable.

With Roy Keane’s autobiography flying off the shelves, early leaks have only served to whet public appetite for the book. 

The Anti-Austerity Alliance Cork City councillor and grandmother Lil O’Donnell said a combination of anger at the shocking revelations in the Anglo tapes and the introduction of the water tax, compelled her to run for election.

A landmark church in Cork City is at risk of crumbling unless it receives an urgent cash injection.

Gardaí are hunting for two men who threatened post office staff with a hatchet and a hammer during a raid yesterday in Cork City.

A new group called the Anti Austerity Alliance has announced plans to contest up to 40 local authority seats across the country next May, targeting three in Cork City.

A Cork nursing home, which closed earlier this year, has been sharply criticised by the Employment Appeals Tribunal for its bullying of a worker who was fired after allegedly stealing a mug.

Officers from the Armed Regional Support Unit and Garda dog unit had to use pepper spray to subdue a man after he attacked and assaulted two gardaí in the northside of Cork City last night.

Children who want to be taught through Irish will have to be driven past a local school on Cork’s northside to others several miles away because of a one-third cut in intake, a councillor has claimed.

Gardaí are hunting for the third member of an armed gang which assaulted four people during a violent burglary in Cork.

Over a dozen gardaí had to be called to Cork’s City Hall last night to end a tense standoff caused after anti-household tax campaigners forced the abandonment of a council meeting.

An award of €185,000 was made yesterday to the family of a man who died moments after being ejected from a pub in Cork City.

Legendary photographer Terry O’Neill was at CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery last night for the launch of his first exhibition in Cork.

A woman in her late 40s is fighting for her life in hospital after suffering serious burns when she fell asleep smoking a cigarette.

Legendary photographer Terry O’Neill will present a major exhibition of his work in Cork in January.

A decision on the possible demolition of a listed former convent in Cork which was gutted by fire now hinges on engineering reports.

Over €2,500 in cash was returned yesterday to an 86-year-old woman who was dragged around her home and tied up during an aggravated burglary.

The school’s first green flag was awarded for work on reducing litter and waste.

Walking to school may be tough work for little legs, but pupils at Scoil Cholmcille take it all in their stride, Education Correspondent Niall Murray reports

Irish children’s mission to make the world greener and cleaner saved 1.35m kilometres of school trips last year under just one part of the expanding Green Schools programme.

Cork’s famous Shandon St was reopened last night after building inspectors gave the all-clear following a partial roof collapse.

AT a meeting of the Northside Principals’ Group meeting in Scoil Iosagáin, Farranree recently, 22 principals in Cork city met to discuss the proposed cuts to DEIS schools.

THE progress that boys have made in reading and maths will be eroded overnight by budget cuts to a school serving one of Cork’s most disadvantaged communities, its principal has warned.

THE Kieran Lynch trained Elegant Rumble claimed his place in the semi-final of the Guinness Trophy when winning the run-off at Curraheen Park yesterday morning.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission is investigating after a man was shot by gardaí after failing to drop a weapon.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today increased a prison sentence on a unemployed Cork man who sexually assaulted 16 children over 16 months in fast food restaurants, swimming pools and sports grounds in the city.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today adjourned an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against the leniency of a seven year sentence, with two years suspended, on a unemployed Cork man who sexually assaulted 16 children over 16 months in fast food restaurants, swimming pools and sports grounds in the city.

The trial has opened at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin of three Cork men and two Limerick men accused of membership of the Real IRA.