It’s easy to make inflammatory statements that do nothing to address the complex challenges we face as a society.

A decade-long lack of investment in major roads projects has caused a major traffic jam in Cork — literally and figuratively.

It cannot be too long before students of management or public administration fill libraries with how-could-this-happen dissertations on the national children’s hospital.

A minister for City Regions is required by the incoming Government to drive a progressive urban agenda the Cork Chamber has said in their election manifesto.

In the period from 1996 to the 2016 Census, the population of Cork City and County increased by 122,000 people, with the vast majority of the growth taking place in suburban Cork.

Glanmire’s Ballinglanna 600-home development has extra incentives under LIHAF initiative, finds Tommy Barker

The National Development Plan should stay focused on developing regions and cities outside Dublin as a policy response to offset economic divergence, a leading ESRI economist has said.

A relatively small falloff in windfall corporation tax receipts would deliver an outsized and longstanding hit to government finances, the Economic and Social Research Institute has warned.

The gardens at Highland Cottage in Glounthaune are looking a bit bare at this time of year but come spring, a new owner will get a chance to enjoy them in full colour.

Every single thing always seems to come down to money, be that cuts or a potential return on investment. But where does culture fit into that equation, be that in the music we listen to or the public venues in which we gather, asks Joyce Fegan

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It could take another year to award a new construction contract for the major upgrade works at the Dunkettle Interchange.

The economic development of the southern region - taking in Cork, Limerick and Waterford - is in danger of being suffocated by a lack of investment in vital infrastructure projects, the country's main building representative group has warned.

Construction industry experts have slammed the poor delivery of major public infrastructure in the southern region.

Key figures in Cork’s business and hospitality sectors have asked to meet developers, BAM, to seek reassurances about the stalled event centre project.

We may not have full control over our economy after Brexit, but there is nothing to stop national investment outside of Dublin, except bureaucracy and Government obfuscation.

A significant upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange was first announced in 2011. Cost overruns to the €100m project, revealed by this paper last week, could seeit delayed by up to 18 months, which would mean the entire process will have taken more than a decade. Joe Leogue looks back at the long-awaited plan.

The Dunkettle interchange projectis vital to traffic flowboth to and from Cork and delays are worrying, says Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

Any delays to the €100m upgrade of the Dunkettle interchange will have “disastrous consequences” for Cork’s growth and have knock-on effects for key infrastructural and housing projects.

The Taoiseach has admitted that the 2016 pre-election sod turning on the stalled Cork event centre was a mistake.

An estimated 43,000 commuters from the county are using the main arteries into Cork city centre every morning, a data analytics report has found.

New homes prices starting from €247,000 for two-beds, and €295,000 for three-bed townhouses, are the immediate, stand-out points to note as the long-awaited €150m Ballinglanna, Cork scheme of 600 homes and services by the O’Flynn Group gets launched next weekend, from February 16.

One of Ireland’s most successful developers says he hopes to build around 1,300 new homes in a Cork suburb within the next 10 years.

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.

Site clearance works have commenced which signal the start of a €100m upgrade of the busiest road junction outside of Dublin.

Latest: A nationwide status orange fog warning has been lifted.

Calls are increasing for a Luas-style transport system to reduce congestion in Cork, as latest figures show significant increases in traffic volumes over the last two years.

Gardaí are dealing with a multi-vehicle crash on the N40 in Cork.