Eirgrid could face stiff opposition to aspects of its €1bn project to import electricity from France, after announcing its preferred site in Co Cork for a major electrical converter station.

Eirgrid is in discussions with Cork County Council officials to see if it is possible to use some or all of the proposed greenway between Youghal and Midleton to duct cabling for part of a €1 billion electricity interconnector between France and Ireland.

Some of the cabling for the part of the €930m Celtic Interconnector, from France to Ireland, may run along the former Midleton-Youghal railway.

People living in an East Cork village are concerned about plans which could disturb a site where dozens of British soldiers were executed by an IRA unit during the War of Independence.

EirGrid has drawn up a new shortlist of land-based and electrical current converter sites as part of a €900m plan to lay a submarine cable to transmit electricity between France and Ireland.

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Fears at rapidly depleting water supplies with no rain forecast.

The setting up of a life-saving community first responder (CFR) group on the outskirts of Cork City could become a template for the roll-out of similar groups across the country.

Plans have been unveiled aiming to ease traffic gridlock in one of the country’s industrial powerhouses — and work should get under way in September.

Plans for a solar farm in east Cork are being challenged by residents who claim it will lead to the industrialisation of a rural setting, writes Seán McCárthaigh    

Two Corkmen accused of carrying out three robberies, four burglaries, and stealing two cars in Cork and Waterford applied to have all charges struck out because of delay in the case.

There are differing views between residents and businesses in Little Island about the performance of the county council, but not when it comes to Glounthaune.

Two Cork men were arrested and remanded in custody for a week yesterday on charges of carrying out three robberies, four burglaries, and stealing two cars on Tuesday.

Gardaí have arrested two men for a series of early-morning raids on shops across Cork.

New information released by Cork County Council supports claims by a major business association that it pays vast amounts of rates, but has got little or nothing back over the years to improve its creaking infrastructure.

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At midnight on Thursday, while most of Cork was tucked up in bed, bright flashes of light were turning the sky overhead blue.

Gaps and inconsistencies in legislation are preventing the protection of an underground grenade factory, which was used by the IRA during the War of Independence.

Gardaí are hunting for an armed robber who stole cash from a service station in Cork last night, writes Liz Dunphy of the Evening Echo.

Last weekend, the hard work of members of Glanmire Macra, Knockraha Macra and Cork City Macra paid off as the long-awaited ‘Hit the Diff’ Vintage Car and Tractor Run took place.

The Paul Kiely-trained Inchiquin High is developing into a competent point-to-point performer and the seven-year-old supplemented last month’s Killeagh success by landing a cracking mares’ winners of two at yesterday’s well-attended Knockanard fixture, run under the auspices of the Avondhu Foxhounds.

Midleton Food and Drink Festival is a major achievement for the East Cork area and for the organisers, with over 25,000 people attending the Festival annually since its launch in 2004. 

Jockey Johnny Burke was in top form on the final day of the four-day July festival at Killarney, completing a near 15-1 double aboard Viconte Du Noyer and Knockraha Prince.

The public will have a chance to express its view on Ireland’s future power network after EirGrid asked for submissions on its new draft strategy.

An East Cork community is to lobby the Government for special heritage status for sites of interest in the area, which hosts a bomb factory dating from the War of Independence.

Some criminals will nick anything that’s not nailed down, but eyebrows have been raised about why they would want to steal 90m of semi-mature hedging which was planted as part of a road realignment project.

Residents of an East Cork community fear their locality may be chosen for a third Eirgrid development after the State-owned electricity operator indicated it would be carrying out tests in the area for a potential international connection with the continent.

EirGrid has moved to assure residents of an East Cork village that a planned extension to an ESB substation in their area will only mean two more pylons at the site, as three existing pylons are to be dismantled.

A village in East Cork is calling for rigorous noise and environmental studies to be carried out if the ESB is to extend its local substation — a project reportedly vital to the modernisation of the electricity grid.

Residents in East Cork have accused Eirgrid of failing to communicate with them about tentative plans to develop a 600km electricity interconnector between Ireland and France.

There was once a country called Ireland, known as the Emerald Isle.

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.

A former Fianna Fáil junior minister who lost his seat at the last general election is hoping to be elected to Cork County Council.

Up to 10,000 landowners and householders, who have formed a national alliance to fight EirGrid’s €500m pylon corridor, have said their national campaign is not short of financial backing.

EirGrid has said the erection of 750 high-rise pylons across the south of Ireland will not affect the health of residents, despite concerns raised by a Government MEP.

Residents living in an East Cork village have reacted with anger to revelations that Eirgrid want to develop another substation in their locality as part of the €500m Grid Link project which will see a 500km chain of pylons built from the south to the east of the country.

The Government has paid €150,000 plus VAT on outside consultants in relation to plans to erect a €500m electric pylon corridor from Kildare to Cork, via Wexford.

Up to 170 people attended a meeting in an East Cork village as opposition mounts in the south of the country to Eirgrid’s proposed €500m overhead powerline.

The chairman designate of Eirgrid, the national power grid operator, has admitted that he would not like to live near electricity pylons.

A community group in north Cork has criticised Eirgrid’s public consultation process around the €500m pylon project from Cork to Wexford to Kildare as “just being about ticking boxes for the planning process”.