New angling restrictions have been imposed on a stretch of the River Lee, as one of Ireland’s top carp fisheries faces a virtual wipe-out from a mysterious outbreak.

City-centre views of the River Lee will be improved by proposed flood defences in Cork and some elements will be redesigned to preserve historic features, says the Office of Public Works.

ADAPTABILITY, ambition, determination, pragmatism, courage and an understanding of the power of community — and the game-changing gift of a thumb — are some of the

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has called for an independent review of proposed flood relief walls in Cork City claiming they will damage the character of the entire city.

Campaigners opposed to the Office of Public Work’s €140 million flood defence plan for Cork have insisted that a tidal barrier can be built for €135m as part of their three-point plan to protect the city from flooding.

The OPW and a voluntary campaign group are at odds over how to combat flooding in Cork. Eoin English examines what may be coming on stream.

The principal of a school for children with autism has thanked the public for donating €8,000 to replace toys and sensory equipment which were destroyed in an arson attack earlier this year.

Families living in the Lee Valley area of Co Cork are refusing to give up their nine-year fight to stop a windfarm being sited close to one of the Europe’s last ancient river forests. They are to appeal Cork County Council’s latest decision to An Bord Pleanála.

Na Piarsaigh 0-13 Naomh Abán 0-3: Na Piarsaigh were on top of their game in Carrigadrohid on Saturday, producing a fine display of football to book a quarter-final place in the Cork Premier IFC. On a wet evening, they emerged easy victors in this round 2A clash against a Naomh Abán side that never got going.

The upper Lee Valley’s river forest could be transformed into an eco-park, and its salmon population returned, if the ESB were to work with environmental campaigners, says the West Cork Ecology Centre.

Despite being cleared of any dereliction of duty, the failure of the Cork Brigade to take part in the rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, writes Gerry White

Captain Bowen Colthurst’s home Oakgrove, near Carrigadrohid, Co Cork, was burnt down by the IRA in June 1920, mainly in response to fears it was to be occupied by British military amid heightening War of Independence violence locally.

With 20 titles, St Brendan’s College’s position at the top of the Corn Uí Mhuirí roll of honour is assured for a while yet.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne will begin the quest to make Corn Uí Mhuirí history today, but their opponents will be writing a new chapter of their own.

THE flood that hit Cork City in late November 2009 had a devastating impact.

Emer Kelly’s work in a Macroom exhibition was often inspired by Cork’s urban environment. However, her move to the country may bring some changes, writes Mark Ewart

Two separate investigations are under way following the death of a young man in a tractor accident in North Cork early yesterday.

Cork Film Festival will show a new documentary next Sunday that makes an impassioned plea for a species’ survival and a river’s future, Jack Power reports

Cork ladies football manager Eamonn Ryan has bemoaned the fact that 28 members of his panel were involved in club action less than a fortnight before their All-Ireland final contest against Dublin on Sunday week.

Cork camogie captain Anna Geary, who is also the city’s 2014 Rose, has backed a huge charity cycle in West Cork which will help boost the coffers of six charities.

ISN’T it ironic that in a world that’s becoming truly ’’global’’ because of the communications revolution, at the same time interest in what’s local seems to be intensifying.

Detailed design work on the Cork City flood relief scheme is expected to start before the middle of 2015, based on feedback from the latest phase which begins today.

The ESB is being sued for millions in damages following record floods that engulfed large parts of Cork city centre four years ago.

The ESB is reminding people that swimming is not allowed in any of its reservoirs.

In my senior years, it is somewhat frightening to find that the “City by the Lee” continues to be devastated during spring tides by floods, not withstanding the intervening years of advances in technology and a ravaging tiger in funding availability.

Improved river defences, facilities for storing floodwater, and changes to the way that Cork’s dams operate are some of the proposals to be examined as part of the city’s €100m flood relief programme.

Four brothers who lost their mother to Alzheimer’s have helped their father organise a fundraising cycle in her memory to help other families caring for a loved one with dementia.

Béal Átha an Ghaorthaigh 3-11 Mallow 2-08

The Office of Public Works (OPW) has defended the timescale for delivering flood defences in Cork City, saying it hopes building work will start in late 2015.

The death of a 16-year-old schoolboy while playing a match yesterday brings to two the number of young people who died suddenly in Cork over the past few days.

A pensioner drove a car down a landbank and into a reservoir yesterday, in a continuing dispute with the ESB.

Adrigole 0-13 Youghal 1-7

It’s the busiest time of year on sheep farms. Denis Lehane finds out how the lambing season went

GLENVILLE are back in the race for Cork County Premier IFC honours following a 0-11 to 0-6 victory over Carrigaline at Blarney last night.

NEXT THURSDAY is the first day of the 4,709th year of the Chinese calendar.

THE two state agencies in the firing line since Cork’s devastating winter flood have again defended their actions but have vowed to implement interim changes.

THE ESB has bowed to pressure and a lowered a critical water level at its dams on the River Lee in the hope of reducing flood risk.