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County councillors are demanding trucks carrying earth for flood-prevention embankments be diverted from a picturesque village which has won awards for its tidiness and floral displays at regional, national, and European level.

CLONAKILTY has been named the tidiest town in West Cork, but its Tidy Towns Committee have been warned about overusing hanging baskets and window boxes.

THE chances of a small Co Cork village winning a prestigious European competition took a giant step closer last weekend when the head of an 11-man adjudicating panel said he and his colleagues were “very impressed” with what they saw.

A PILOT waste reduction project being carried out in a small village in Co Cork looks set to become a model for the rest of the country.

DAVY RUSSELL, on his first day back since suffering a hand injury at the Punchestown Festival, landed the three mile handicap hurdle at Cork last night on Tony Martin’s Royal County Star, the first of three winners on the night.

THREE thousand people from communities on the Cork/Waterford border have signed a petition amid fears that a fire station may be closed.

TWO down, two to go — that’s the update at The Paddocks in the picturesque village of Coolagown, Fermoy, where four large, detached houses have been built.

ONE of Cork’s biggest builders is seeking to demolish grain mills in Midleton and construct 102 apartments, a village square, community centre and childcare facilities.

ENNIS, Co Clare, has emerged as the winner of the 2005 Tidy Towns competition - just two weeks after it was branded one of the State’s dirtiest places in an environmental study.