Securing a significant extension of Cork’s city boundary is now of national importance, a city councillor warned last night as they rejected a land offer from the county.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has remained tight-lipped on a surprise offer from Cork County Council to cede land to the city.

Data justifying the scale of the proposed Cork City boundary extension has emerged ahead of a crunch meeting on an alternative boundary suggestion.

Cork County Council would immediately relinquish commercial rates and local property tax (LPT) worth in excess of €16m per year if its revised plan for the city council boundary extension is accepted by the Implementation Oversight Group.

Latest: Gardaí say 79 year old Christopher McCarthy has been located safe and well.

Group to issue recommendations on local government in September, says Eoin English

The chair of the expert group reviewing Cork’s city boundary and possible merger of the city and county councils has promised full engagement with stakeholders.

The environment minister has given an expert group nine months to review the case for the first extension of Cork’s city boundary in 50 years.

A Cork construction dynasty has been rocked by two court petitions, writes Property Editor Tommy Barker

No 67 Fernwood has the signs of a happy, child-centred family home — and now its owners are upping sticks and trading up, taking on a far older house to do up, with even bigger gardens, in another Cork suburb. They have a bit of work ahead of them in their new project, but what they leave behind at No 67 is a walk-in job for its next occupants.

The environment minister wants to see concrete progress on the first boundary extension for Cork City in almost 50 years — before next year’s local elections.

Tommy Barker uncovers a green oasis in middle of Cork surburbia

WATER supplies will be switched off, at nighttime, to thousands of homes in parts of south Cork over the next 10 days as the county council completes essential works.

IT’S the three-year traffic lights fiasco that is set to cost taxpayers over €230,000.

A NEW owner of 4 The Drive, in Lehenaghmore, might want to get stuck into the gardens — because there’s nothing at all to do on the inside.

Cork has been hit by flooding as heavy rain sweeps across the county.

IN VERY good order, and with a good asking price for its Wilton, Cork city location, is 34 Fernwood Crescent, a three-bed semi-detached home with a €285,000 asking price.

MID-1900s bungalows north and south of the river Lee, in mature areas, are on offer with about €50,000 between them.

A MAJOR battle began last night over ambitious plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

AMBITIOUS plans for the biggest ever extension of Cork’s city boundary will be unveiled next week.

THE High Court has approved a €1.5 million settlement on behalf of a six-year-old child who suffered a permanent disfigurement after she lost all of her fingers on one hand in the weeks after her birth.

AN Bord Pleanála confirmed yesterday that it has received objections to two so-called ‘green projects’ in Co Cork.

BACK on the market after a previous “sale agreed”, 47 Forest Ridge in Cork has viewers coming back through the doors.

SET up on Spur Hill rising out of Wilton and Togher in Cork, two bungalows currently on the market with 100,000 euro in price difference between them offer a flavour of country living and suburban convenience.