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

Life went on as normal in Glanmire’s John O’Callaghan Park yesterday morning: People of various ages went for a typical Sunday walk in the bright sunshine, navigating the occasional puddles of mud, the last remains of the inclement weather from the day before.

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

A teenage boy is fighting for his life after he was thrown from a horse in to a swollen river on the outskirts of Cork city this evening.

Plans have been unveiled for a €10m flood-relief scheme to protect a Cork satellite town which suffered serious damage in summer 2012.

Traders in Cork City breathed a sigh of relief last night as the city avoided another flood disaster.

A village in East Cork has raised a raft of objections to plans by Eirgrid to extend an ESB substation in their community as part of the overall upgrading of the national electricity grid.

Ardmore, Waterford €275,000

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.

Two community groups in Co Cork have expressed concern that “fish before people” red tape may prevent vital flood prevention works.

Some of the biggest dairy farms in the county are located in the general area of this tidy 38-acre holding at Carrignavar, Co Cork.

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.

Three local authorities in Cork are to be granted €700,000 to help with “exceptional costs” incurred as a result of recent flooding.

Large parts of Cork City are now “uninsurable” due to the spate of flooding incidents in recent years — the most recent of which occurred just over a week ago.

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.

LAST sold in 2005 for far in excess of its mid-€500,000s asking price at the time, the distinctive and modern home Highgrove had further moneys spent on it since by its purchasers, who’ve also added to insulation levels in this architect’s former home.

AN end is in sight to the crisis that has left almost 20,000 households in Cork city without water after city officials last night predicted its damaged treatment plant would return to full production before next Sunday.

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 country’s largest and most detailed flood defence project was launched yesterday with major projects dependent on government funding.

THE owners of The Island, a five-bed dormer home, went out of their way to make it their own private oasis. Now it’s on offer with a second, sizeable price reduction to encourage buyers to take the plunge.

GLANMIRE’S Coach House, with its eye-catching eyelet windows, may look familiar as it is an occasional arrival on the property market.

TONNES of animal dung were found dumped on a river bank yesterday raising fears about the safety of the water supply to thousands of households in Cork.

THE traumatic three-week search for a missing Cork man ended yesterday when the River Lee gave up the body of Joe Mullally.

FRESH new house designs, but a return to an architectural feature from the past, the stair return, distinguish the new homes launched this weekend in The Beeches, Woodville, a mile from the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork.

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.

THE proposed landfill site in North Cork at Bottlehill is fully compliant with the prevailing planning and development policies for the county, a public hearing in Mallow heard yesterday.

THE Automobile Association has welcomed news that the National Roads Authority is studying a plan to ease traffic at the Dunkettle Interchange, in Cork, which feeds the Jack Lynch Tunnel.

GARDAÍ have asked Cork County Council to erect a crash barrier alongside an estuary to prevent further tragedies, following an accident earlier this month which claimed the life of a mother and daughter.