Detailed design work on the Cork City flood relief scheme is expected to start before the middle of 2015, based on feedback from the latest phase which begins today.

Met Eireann is warning of very stormy conditions with severe gusts of about 130 kilometres and hour.

There's been a call for an independent inquiry into the flooding which has left tens of thousands of people in Cork without running water.

DESPITE economic gloom, there’s a strong market still for €1-million-plus homes in Cork city.