Residents living along one of Cork city's busiest roads have submitted hundreds of documents to Cork City Council to oppose current plans to revamp the route.

Residents living near one of Cork's busiest roads are to meet later this week to discuss plans to radically revamp the road network in their area.

Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into a serious assault on a woman in Cork last month.

Gardaí in Cork are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a young woman as she walked home early this morning.

Power has been restored to tens of thousands of people in Cork who were without electricity this morning because of a fault effecting three ESB substations on the north side of the city.