A single six-seater in 2014, the Kanturk-Mallow municipal district will be two separate electoral areas this time around.

Cork County Council looks set to establish a special Rural Affairs Committee amid rising fears that many communities in North and West Cork are dying.

“A colourful character, incredibly exuberant, he spent his life teaching people about the set dancing and the music of the area he loved.”

Government ministers never tire of telling us that running a country entails the arduous business of taking difficult decisions.

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County councillors representing north-west Cork have reacted angrily to the redrawing of electoral areas by the Local Electoral Boundary Commission, with a senior council official saying the fall-out from it “will present challenges” to the local authority.

Sunday morning in Knocknagree. Two women, one in a pink dressing gown pulling gingerly on a cigarette, stand nattering at a front door. All else is quiet.

Michael Clifford gets to the bottom of the post office closure crisis in rural Ireland and meets the faces behind the local service.

A warning has been given that someone will be killed by a vehicle in a Cork/Kerry border town because of poor public lighting and a lack of pedestrian crossings.

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The Star Bar is known as a sports and live music bar, with a price guide of €275,000.

The 2014 Sliabh Luachra Music Trail, celebrating the traditional musical style of the area, will be launched on Friday by Arts Minister, Jimmy Deenihan, TD, at Ballydesmond Community Centre. The aim is a year-round calendar of events, encompassing festivals and venues throughout the region.

From early morning they started to come — families, older people and, especially, the young. And the most striking thing about the place was the silence, broken only by birdsong and cars going by in the bright June sunshine.

Violence flared as emergency services recovered the body of a member of the Travelling community from a Co Cork river.

The section of river where 17-year-old Christopher O’Sullivan got into difficulties and later died has been used by local swimmers for generations.

A 17-year-old youth who died in hospital after being pulled from the River Blackwater in Cork has been named locally.

Two people, one aged 21, another 17, have in seperate swimming accidents in Cork.

A man in his 20's has died following a swimming accident in Cork last night.

One man has died and a teenager is critical in hospital after two separate swimming accidents in Cork over the weekend.

A teenager remains in a critical condition in hospital this morning after a swimming accident in Co Cork yesterday evening.

A 17-year-old boy was fighting for his life last night after he was caught underwater for over 25 minutes.

PJ Murrihy is on the bandstand getting his gig underway with one of his popular songs, ‘Eileen Alanna’.

THIEVES are now targeting churches and grottos.

FRAN RYAN was a reluctant companion down Memory Lane this week. It isn’t that he dislikes the trip, just that 40-something years spent treading the boards as a player and coach with his beloved Marian have blurred his sense of recall.

THE Celtic Tiger helped destroy the character of many old villages, but efforts are underway to preserve what’s left and again make villages attractive places in which to live.

GARDAÍ are advising some ATM operators to withdraw cash from the machines at night to thwart ram-raiding gangs.

THE call came as a jolt to his senses. Midweek in late February 2008 and Patrick Kelly was in a pub in Limerick, watching a Champions League game with a few college friends.

THE death occurred yesterday of Dan O’Connell, a leading figure in traditional music and dance for decades.

NECESSARY repairs to four churches straddling the Cork/Kerry border will be funded by a night at the dogs in Tralee later this month.

SITES from as low as €12,000 and family homes, from €156,000 are on offer in north Cork.

ENDA Kenny faced a “no win” situation in Millstreet yesterday.

THREE Fianna Fáil candidates in the so-called “constituency of death” will find themselves under even more pressure as a post office lobby group plans to urge people to vote against them.

A 56-YEAR-OLD Kerryman, who was fatally injured in a road accident while walking near Millstreet, Co Cork, early yesterday morning, was the 39th pedestrian to die on Irish roads this year.

One man has died following a road traffic accident in Cork.

WE have heard a belated and begrudging acceptance from the US and British governments.

THE recent announcements of annual results