It is hoped that a transformed Cork Docklands can provide a sense of place for 25,000 people in the future, writes Catherine Shanahan

Campaigners in Cork are urging a rethink of a proposed roads revamp in the city docklands which, they say, is the start of the city’s flood defence works.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The Government's €2bn urban redevelopment plan has been labelled "a major slap in the face" for key areas outside of Dublin after Waterford city received just €6m in funds to rejuvenate the area.

The gulf in planned development between Cork and Kerry is highlighted by the number of mentions each county gets in both the national development plan (NDP) and the longer term Project Ireland 2040.

Focus on providing an urban framework that injects life to our city centre, writes Peter O’Flynn.

Cork’s Docklands can become a “world-class” international shipping cluster with thousands of new jobs if ambitious plans to bring the proposed International Shipping Services Centre (ISSC) to Leeside are realised.

An area of the city steeped in our maritime heritage but equally associated with a tragic end to many lives forms the backdrop of an innovative film about mental health.

If anybody in the Marquee crowd was annoyed at missing the Brazil-Germany game last night, there was no sign of it as Paolo Nutini too to the stage just around kick-off.

It was a packed-out tent at the Marquee, with an all-ages Saturday night crowd clad in rockabilly dresses and super-styled fringes as Imelda May came to town.

COMPLACENCY, inertia, arrogance, denial and inaction. These characterised “Official Ireland’s” failure to anticipate and ameliorate last year’s flooding in Cork and are informing its response ever since.

THE regeneration of Cork’s sprawling docklands remains a government priority, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation insisted yesterday.

Cork Chamber President Ger O’Mahoney today welcomed the recent discussions by stakeholders in the city with a view to kickstarting the Cork Docklands development.

THE Government has given the green light to create plans for the first purpose-built town in Munster.

PLANNING is expected to be granted today for three bridges over the River Lee to help kick-start one of the state’s most ambitious regeneration projects.

GARDAÍ have been given High Court approval to break into the lavish home of Howard Holdings king-pin Greg Coughlan, if necessary, to arrest him over unpaid loans of more than €28 million.

Tommy Barker says this Co Cork home has lots of landscape features.

Work on the Cork Docklands project, the biggest proposed development in the country since the construction of the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin 20 years ago, could grind to a halt unless the State provides €2.3m in immediate funding to appoint a design team for the proposed Eastern Gateway Bridge.

THE history of Cork is built around the River Lee and the access to the open sea.

One of Cork's business leaders has called on the Government to re-commit to infrastructural developments in the region to ensure Cork's continued success as "a key southern gateway".

The Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, has said today's Budget has ensured equity with respect to changes in tax.

The president of the European Commission will attempt today to convince voters to accept the Lisbon Treaty.

The site of Cork city’s next 'park and ride' on the Carrigrohane Road will be revealed in three weeks.

THE Government is coming under increasing pressure from the country’s largest property developers to secure direct State funding for infrastructure, to change tax incentives policy and also to change the national roads programme to help fund the so-called Cork docklands and the proposed relocation of Cork port to Ringaskiddy.

A ‘NEW Cork’ beckons down-river of the existing southern city — but locals can’t yet see it.

THE Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has expressed its shock that tax and other incentives, designed to support the Cork Docklands project have been delayed for another year.

THE Government has admitted it will be at least a year before any tax incentives are announced for the Cork Docklands project.

CORK CHAMBER has urged Finance Minister Brian Cowen not to turn a blind eye to the Cork Docklands development project in the upcoming Finance Act.

DISAPPOINTMENT was expressed in Cork last night at the failure to provide any financial incentives in the budget for the development of the Cork docklands.

CORK Chamber of Commerce is hoping to meet the Taoiseach this week to persuade him to help resolve the Cork Airport debt row and provide financial incentives for a proposed docklands project.

THE Port of Cork, which is looking for a €60 million package to move out of the city centre, has been urged to keep with the process to ensure the multibillion-euro development of the Cork docklands moves forwards.

A MULTI-BILLION euro draft plan to transform Cork Docklands into a top European urban quarter will go on public display for the first time next week.

ORIGIN, the IAWS agribusiness and property subsidiary, planning an initial public offering (IPO) next month, has bid for warehousing group Moyglare Holdings.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern last night committed himself to establishing a Cork Docklands National Steering Forum similar to the body which facilitated the development of the IFSC in Dublin.

WEXFORD-bred horses won the ridden hunter championship and the reserve honours for a Co Down exhibitor at last Sunday’s Cork Summer Show.

A MASSIVE piece of public art was unveiled in Cork’s docklands last night.