A metre-long rat-like mammal has been spreading beyond a small Cork river where it is believed they have been breeding over the last two years.

Pollution appears to be the cause of a major fish kill on a river outside Cork City over the weekend. About 700 fish were killed over a 2km stretch of the Curraheen River, near the municipal park known as Murphy’s Farm.

Cork City Council is awaiting further information from developers of the proposed reworking for residential use of a former bakery site in Togher.

If you could, somehow, squirrel away €1,000 a day, you’d have this detached family home all paid for in a year’s time: Its €365,000 asking price is a grand for ever day in the year. Wouldn’t it be grand?

Two former Cork City sites, associated with boom-time purchases involving Oyster Developments, are being brought to market by Savills.

No 6 The Grove is tucked away off College Road, Cork, and is priced at €450,000, writes Tommy Barker

Ambitious plans to pedestrianise Cork’s main street have taken a major step forward following the announcement of a €7m citywide transport funding package.

A CARPENTER in the know put his know-how, passion, energy and ingenuity into building Brookside, as bright and fresh today as when it was first built, 20 years ago.

INVESTIGATIONS are under way to discover the source of waste flowing into the Green River in Bishopstown.

ALMOST €700,000 is to be ploughed into major upgrades of a popular Cork city public park.

CORK city council will begin public consultations next week as part of a masterplan for an area critics say is plagued with overdevelopment.

THE first phase of the €3 million ‘Banks of the Lee’ walkway, first suggested almost 20 years ago, was finally opened to the public yesterday.

FRUSTRATED cyclists are planning to invite city fathers to saddle up and bike through Cork as part of a campaign for improved cycling facilities.