Engineers have attempted to allay fears about major Japanese Knotweed infestation delaying a €8.1m flood prevention project in a Cork satellite town.

Mystery surrounds how a koi carp fish ended up in a fast-flowing, normally shallow Cork river and how it survived after being attacked by birds and territorially aggressive brown trout.

Most of the detailed design for a €7.7m flood prevention scheme in Glanmire, Co Cork, has been completed and it is expected construction will get under way next spring.

A new year, but sadly, the same old story for homes and businesses threatened by flooding in parts of Cork.

Works beside a Co Cork shopping centre have been stopped after concerns were expressed it could increase the flooding risk for other parts of the area.

A teenage boy drowned after he went into a river on a horse only for the animal to be plunged underwater because of a sudden drop caused by erosion, Cork Coroner’s Court has heard.

It is only 650 sq ft, but it’s elegant and on a lush quarter-acre in Glanmire.

“You had a smile for everyone, hands for boxing and a face for the ladies. We can’t picture our family without you.”

Complaints about the condition of horses on land near where a teenage boy died at the weekend prompted investigations last year, it has emerged.

A teenager has died in hospital after falling from his horse in Co Cork yesterday.

More than 60 householders and business owners, whose properties had been severely flooded nearly three years ago, will this week examine proposed “preferred flood relief options” for their area.

Council workers are sifting through scores of large fertiliser bags dumped on the side of a road on the outskirts of Cork City in the hope of finding clues to where the waste came from.

JACKDAWS have greyish white eyes. They make it easy to identify the bird — the other crows have dark ones.

A major flood defence plan for Cork City, which will include proposals to install 1m-high barriers on the quay walls, will be ready before the end of the year.

A flood-affected community has vowed to fight any plans to build on a sensitive site before a major flood prevention study is completed.

Details of a proposed €11m plan to combat flooding in East Cork will include the building of walls and embankments.

Businesses and householders in a Co Cork town are pleading with the authorities to carry out interim flood prevention works before a major scheme is put in place.

A YEAR after their lives were turned upside down by extensive flooding, residents and business owners across Cork still live in fear every time heavy rain is forecasted for their towns.

A West Cork town is set to get €12.8m in flood defences which should protect it for 200 years.

One hundred tonnes of timber clogging a Cork river poses a serious threat to public safety in the event of a flood.

A Cork GAA club has been ordered to remove a new rock embankment or face the possibility of High Court action by the local authority.

A GAA club in Co Cork has been told to halt construction of a rock wall which could put neighbouring residential and retail properties at increased risk of flooding.

Cork County Council has sought a raft of further information from an East Cork farmer who wants to build a 10,000-tonne, organic composting facility on his land.

Residents in an East Cork village have expressed concerns that plans by a farmer to build a 10,000-tonne organic composting facility on his land could pose a health risk and pollute water in the wider Glanmire area.

All the plans for this house were concocted by its intrepid owner. Rose Martin investigates.

ALL the hard work has been done here in delivering a “Grand Designs” type of one-off house, in a great woodland and stream-side setting.

THE Garda Technical Bureau is being drafted in to assist with an investigation into a missing Lithuanian man who may have been murdered.

THE GLASHABOY river rises in the foothills of the Nagle Mountains and makes it’s way south to Glanmire via Sallybrook, the aptly named townland.

THIS is the ideal lad or laddette pad - a stone-built coach house on three acres close enough to Cork city, but not too close.