Senior management from Cork Airport and the DAA are set to mount an all-out diplomatic offensive on Washington and Boston ahead of the St Patrick’s Day festivities in a bid to secure Cork’s first transatlantic flights.

The Sheep’s Head Peninsula might not have the same profile as the Beara Peninsula or the Ring of Kerry, but it’s a stunning piece of the country that has an island-like existence — sticking out into the Atlantic Ocean like a microcosm of all that’s best about the coastal beauty of Ireland.

The Government has refused to give any lifeline of exchequer funding to Cork Airport and said it is up to airport management and DAA to reverse plummeting passenger numbers.

A 74 year old woman has died after the car in which she was travelling collided with a truck.

Government funding will not be available for a long-awaited road project linking Cork and Kerry, according to Transport Minister Leo Varadkar.

“There’s huge value for money here,” says Sam Kingston of Casey and Kingston, appointed selling agent for the 10,000 sq ft, expensively-built Lissarda Manor guest house on the main Cork-Macroom/Killarney Road.

The newly elected Government led by Garret FitzGerald insisted the B&I Ferries could only close its Cork-Pembroke service in early 1983 if it agreed to maintain a summer service, against the advice of an interdepartmental group.

“EEEUUUUGHH!”

BUSINESS leaders are hoping the results of a survey may convince an airline carrier to re-launch the Cork-Dublin flights which Ryanair is pulling from next month.

A 227-acre farm at Coolkirky, Riverstick, Co Cork, was put up for sale back in 2008, just as the market went south, and it was subsequently withdrawn.

The main Cork-Dublin rail line has re-opened after being closed for a time this evening when a man was struck by a train and killed.

IT was supposed to be about connectivity – but Iarnród Éireann has its lines crossed again.

WHILE buying magazines to read on the Cork-to-Dublin the train recently, luckily I noticed the price of one before purchasing — €9.

Gardaí in Mitchelstown have appealed for witnesses after a man was found seriously injured on the side of a road.

Rail services in Cork are facing further disruption today due to unofficial strike action by track maintenance staff.

I WAS not amused