Finance Minister Michael Noonan has suggested the Cork-Limerick motorway could be built as long as tolls are included.

The HSE has been told that it should develop a hospital it has rather than spend millions of euro on a new one on the southside of Cork city.

Work will not commence on a Macroom bypass or new Cork-Ringaskiddy road until at least 2022, as priority is being given to upgrading the Dunkettle/Jack Lynch Tunnel interchange.

Repair work is nearly complete on the “worst” street surface in Ireland, in Buttevant town. And motorists using the main Cork-Limerick road will soon not have the frustration of waiting in long queues at roadworks.

The Government and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) have been accused of “giving the two fingers” to the dairy industry as well as to hauliers and commuters.

Ballyhea on the Cork-Limerick road near Charleville is a sort of ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ village, but it has risen to some stature thanks to its weekly ‘Ballyhea Says No’ public marches, rejecting the banking bailout terms.

The Government is to make €10.2m in funding available for national road schemes, with nearly half of the fund going towards a section of the Cork-Limerick road.

A campaign to have plans for a northern bypass of Mallow reactivated by government has moved up a gear.

It was once dubbed by locals as the worst-maintained street in Ireland.

Cork County Council officials have disclosed they are still intent on developing a 5,000-house town at Monard near Blarney.

A price guide at €79,000 might mean some love in the air at this North Cork home - appropriately in a scheme called The Pastures, in Love Lane, Charleville.

Five people, including a four-year-old boy, were taken to hospital following a pile-up on the outskirts of Cork city which closed the main Cork-Limerick road for several hours yesterday.

It’s been dubbed the worst street in Ireland, inflicting broken bones on pedestrians and a lot of damage to vehicles.

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Post mortem examinations are taking place on the bodies of the three O'Driscoll brothers who died in Co Cork yesterday.

The school of Thomas and Patrick O’Driscoll, who were found dead in their home just outside Charleville, Co Cork yesterday, has described the twins as "loving, energetic and full of fun".

Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out on three members of a family, including twin boys, suspected of dying in a double murder and suicide.

It’s been branded Ireland’s worst main street but, from October next, it will be transformed into one of the finest town thoroughfares.

A main street 8,000 sq ft property "in the heart of Munster, Charleville", is for sale for new uses, having previously served as a community centre, and before that, a school.

The worst main street in the country is finally to get a €2 million makeover.

In what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind in the country, a 24-year-old man has been banned from sulky driving for six months.

It’s been dubbed the worst main street in Ireland and the patience of people using it is at breaking point after the NRA (National Roads Authority) said it wouldn’t be making any money available next year to repair it.

Embattled residents in a Co Cork town are clinging to the hope a local authority can persuade the National Roads Authority to assign €3.4m to repair a crumbling main street and pathways.

Traffic tailbacks of several kilometres resulted as more than 500 people blocked a town centre in protest at the condition of its main street’s road surface and footpaths.

Showhouse in North Cork development gives viewers an idea how eight remaining houses on offer can look, writes Tommy Barker

Five men have been charged in connection with a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road earlier this year which became a YouTube hit.

A delegation will meet Transport Minister Leo Varadkar this month to persuade him to sanction money for two bypasses and a relief road in Co Cork.

Here’s a fine fruit to pluck for the spring market — a residential tillage and grazing farm at Churchtown in Co Cork.

GARDAÍ have renewed their appeal for witnesses to a fatal traffic accident on the Cork-Limerick road which claimed the life of a 30-year-old man.

The need to end the gridlock at city’s key road junction has intensified, writes Sean O’Riordan

A man in his 30s has been killed in a car crash in Co Louth, while a six-year-old girl remains seriously ill after a crash on the Cork-Limerick road, in which a one-year-old boy died.

IN future, the private sector may have to help Ireland’s largest local authority fund vital projects such as water and sewerage schemes.

THREE TVs (all in a row), a toilet cistern, a cooker (with a deep-fat fryer nearly tucked into its oven), a golf umbrella, a child’s scooter, a large suitcase, a garden strimmer . . . no, these aren’t prizes in a game show, these are all items that have been dumped in a ditch close to my home on a quiet country road in east Cork.

A SUBSIDIARY of Dairygold has been granted planning permission for a €100 million mixed-use development in Mallow, which is expected to create up to 400 jobs.

THE driver of a Garda patrol car put his life on the line yesterday to protect a mother and baby during a 40km high-speed chase through Co Cork in which dozens of motorists were forced off the road, Garda cars were rammed and speeds in excess of 160km/h were reached.