The Port of Cork Company has been granted planning by An Bord Pleanála for a container terminal at Ringaskiddy, despite senior inspectors having advised rejection of permission. Following rejection of their application in 2008, due to inadequate roads and no rail facilities, Port of Cork nevertheless proceeded with a container facility at Ringaskiddy in 2012.

A Co Cork-based kayaker has completed a gruelling 2,500km voyage during which he had to dodge supertankers and all the elements could throw at him and his flimsy craft.

For a man not renowned as having ‘sea legs’, it would be a lot easier to book a flight to take a trip from Cork to his home town in north Germany.

There are plans to make final diving preparations today to raise the anchors of the Aud, the arms ship scuttled in Cork Harbour on Easter Saturday 1916.