Homeless families and children protested outside Cork City Hall last night before a council meeting in which a vacant industrial site was rezoned for housing and a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction was announced.

As for the busiest roads in Cork, the report stated: "Several sections of the N40 Cork Southern Ring Road carry in excess of 80,000 vehicles on an average day."

A business seed planted 135 years ago on Cork city’s South Mall still sees a family-owned firm sowing and reaping.

Up to 60 vehicles were damaged in the blaze, most on level one of the structure.

At five months pregnant, and completely alone, an 18-year-old Pamela Bangura fled Sierra Leone to seek asylum in Ireland.

A 13-year-old boy was warned by a Cork District Court judge yesterday that he would end up in custody at Oberstown centre if he got into “one more scrap” or failed to comply with every direction of the probation service.

A woman granted temporary release from a prison sentence for shoplifting was caught stealing more than €360 worth of clothing from a store in Cork.

Bus Éireann kindly stepped in to provide transport to bring Sanctuary runners from the Direct Provision centre in Kinsale Road in Cork to Patrick Street today for the city marathon.

Sorting out Cork people for ages.

Tommy Barker is impressed by a graceful, elegant property which provides modern living in a period home

Cricket players living in direct provision in Cork who are practising between buildings at their accommodation centre are in a frantic search to find a place to train so they don’t have to give up the sport.

An asylum seeker with a heart condition who was unable to walk 200 metres without extreme breathlessness spent his last few weeks of life in extreme distress as he had to take repeated trips by bus from Cork to Dublin for medical treatment, his widow has claimed at his inquest.

Asylum seekers from as diverse countries as the Ukraine and Burundi plan to go on a tour of direct provision centres all around the country next year in a bid to spread their message of hope.

Gardaí made 90 arrests for begging or shoplifting in Cork City over Christmas, recovering an estimated €20,000 worth of stolen goods.

Joyce Fegan talks to some of those in Direct Provision, who want an end to a ‘devilish’ and ‘evil’ system that leaves them fully dependant on the State.

A home which has had previous lives as a creche and a shop gets a gorgeous transformation, says Tommy Barker

The volume of traffic on national roads rose by 6% last year, with the M50 the country’s busiest road and the South Ring Road the most heavily used in Cork.

Three years ago, Norbert fled his homeland for Ireland, in the hope of securing refugee status and bringing his wife and four children to Ireland, and safety.

A village centre to serve a rapidly-evolving Cork suburban setting with 1,000 homes now provided is proposed for Cork’s southside.

A huge new public park in Cork City, to rival Dublin’s Phoenix Park, is finally set to open next year.

Residents have expressed concerns about plans to develop another waste management facility in an industrial estate on the northside of Cork City.

Tommy Barker on a Turners Cross home that’s set to appeal to a broad cross-section of buyers.

A LONG-established, family-run pub between two of Cork city’s suburban sporting heartlands, rugby at Musgrave Park and soccer at Turner’s Cross stadium, has another claim to fame – it is the closest licensed premises to the grave of Fr Theobald Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance.

Objectors to a proposed €180m motorway in Cork have been given less than three weeks notice to prepare a case against it.

An investigation is underway after a young boy fell from a second-floor window at an asylum seeker centre near Cork City.

Tommy Barker sees huge potential, and a huge rear garden, ‘Green Acres’ so-to-speak, at No 36.

Having opened a €3m Avoca store in Dunboyne, Co Meath, just this week, a Cork Avoca is next in line for the expansionist, upmarket Irish food and household product company.

Revenue Officers have seized contraband tobacco products and vehicles in Fermoy and Cork city, it has emerged.

Two separate investigations are under way after a man was injured while setting up a funfair ride in Cork City.

If you’ve ever travelled the South Ring road that skirts Cork City, particularly on a weekend, you may have heard the engines scrambling and the occasional guttural roar from up behind the Kinsale road roundabout.

Separate traffic incidents involving trucks caused major disruption yesterday for commuters in Limerick and Cork.

The place next door quite famously fetched €27.5m, at an electric auction process, back in 2006.

Warehouse/industrial units ranging from €300,000 to €1.5m on Cork City’s outskirts have come to market this month, at Little Island and at the Kinsale Road.

A new phase of retail warehousing at Cork city’s Turners Cross kicks off this week, with tenants Homestore+More taking 26,000 sq ft close to the super-sized Woodies outlet, while DID Electrical are due to follow on the same site in another new build for which planning has just been granted.

The prevalence of suicide, declining vocations, and Mass attendance are just some of the issues that the country’s bishops will discuss with senior Vatican officials when they travel to Rome tomorrow for a 10-day pilgrimage.

With most of Cork’s suburban retail parks now at or close to full occupancy, the arrival of UK homewares chain The Range as the anchor tenant at Eastgate Retail Park sees another c 60,000 sq ft taken up, and a new brand name enter the recovering Munster retail fray, with a product range spanning 65,000 items.

This house is in immaculate condition, with easy keep gardens front and back, and off-street parking.