A special meeting is to be held by councillors in North Cork to draw up a battleplan aimed at persuading the government to locate a new elective hospital for the county in Mallow.

Mr Ryan is "quietly confident" undecided voters will "break green" in the coming days

Three men are appearing in court in Cork and Dublin this morning after being arrested on drugs charges earlier this week.

Fianna Fáil members who would consider entering Government with Sinn Féin should either remove Micheál Martin as leader or else rule out such a coalition, Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer says.

Fianna Fáil members who would consider entering Government with Sinn Féin should either remove Micheál Martin as leader or else rule out such a coalition, Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer has said.

The Hermitage is host to some stylish properties,including the so-stylish No 14 Tommy Barker reports.

Cork county councillors have welcomed this news and yesterday's signing of a contract to design a planned northern relief road in Mallow.

Cork county councillors are lobbying counterparts in other counties to try and scupper a motorway motion coming before a Southern Regional Assembly (SRA) meeting which they believe will position Limerick as the country's second city.

The head of network operations at Transport Infrastructure Ireland has said that one of the northbound lanes of the M8 has reopened this morning which is “adequate for capacity.”

Emergency services have been praised for a swift response to flash floods in the Douglas village area of Cork city tonight.

A section of the M8 motorway between Cork and Dublin is closed this evening due to severe flooding.

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

The Dunkettle Interchange has been pushed back by one year as Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and Sisk fail to agree on the forecast of costs.

Every parent has their own worries. Stranger danger, the internet, child-minding costs, the fear that one of them will wake early when you have a hangover.

Cork will have again travelled up the M8 by bus yesterday in preparation for taking on Tyrone this evening in Croke Park.

The Dunkettle interchange projectis vital to traffic flowboth to and from Cork and delays are worrying, says Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

Another holding in South Tipperary is going under the hammer in a few weeks’ time.

Irish placenames bring you on a journey trying to get to the bottom of them. Or just glory in the sheer madness of them, writes Colm O'Regan

Fresh from a highly successful public auction at the Vienna Woods Hotel in Glanmire on May 29, Michael Barry of Fermoy-based auctioneers Dick Barry & Son is to present an even more exciting prospect to the market on August 16 next — this time at the Grand Hotel in the centre of Fermoy.

It was a way of telling people the chaos of life, the sheer bastardy of a bean spatula could be addressed by the courts and all would be well, writes Colm O'Regan

The most senior roads engineer in Co Cork doubts there will be any change in the route previously chosen for the Cork-Limerick motorway (M20), despite consultants being paid €15m to revisit it.

A lobby group has said building a direct motorway link between Cork and Limerick is a major waste of taxpayers' money, because there is another one planned which will link the two cities.

An estimated 43,000 commuters from the county are using the main arteries into Cork city centre every morning, a data analytics report has found.

Neil Lennon has hit out at the abuse he has suffered in Scotland, writes Tommy Martin

Neil Lennon has hit out at the abuse he has suffered in Scotland, writes Tommy Martin

Gardaí are investigating four separate road crashes in which people were killed over the weekend.

A 91.6-acre non-residential farm in South Tipperary was sold at public auction last week,

All in all, the madness was all worth it and sometimes there’s no point in trying to make any sense of it, writes John Coleman.

“And you may find yourself sleeping fitfully through a massive thunderstorm.

TIME was when noise nuisance in Ireland was generally created by that dreaded dog which never stopped barking in an area, or the busy, inconsiderate neighbour who insisted on working machinery late at night, writes Donal Hickey

A small rural community on the Cork-Limerick border is taking unprecedented steps to combat rural crime.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed that the Limerick/Cork motorway will pass along the route originally envisaged — putting an end to fears the project could be further delayed.

Public representatives are seeking an urgent meeting with a toll company which manages a section of the M8 in an effort to ease traffic gridlock in a provincial town off the motorway linking Cork and Dublin.

Coach House on the Cork/Limerick border is a historic home that harks to times past, writes Tommy Barker.

Site clearance works have commenced which signal the start of a €100m upgrade of the busiest road junction outside of Dublin.

A touch of frost and a hazy shade of winter can transform your garden, says Peter Dowdall. 

Groups representing business and industry have given their backing to a proposed motorway from Cork to Ringaskiddy — with one group expressing “frustration” at the lack of progress in building the road to date.

The jury in the trial of a motorist accused of careless driving causing the death of an elderly Kilkenny man near Mitchelstown two years ago failed to reach a verdict yesterday after four hours of deliberation.

A key element of the Garda Traffic Management plan for the three-day National Ploughing Championship, which President Michael D Higgins will officially open at Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly tomorrow, will be the Horse and Jockey junction in Co Tipperary.

Archaeologists have discovered 30 previously unknown ancient sites along the proposed Macroom bypass route, including a Bronze Age ring fort.

Firefighters in Scotland tackling a large blaze at a warehouse in Glasgow have said they expect to be at the scene for most of the day.

A comprehensive plan is needed for two IDA-owned sites in Cork — one lying idle in Fermoy since 2002 and another in Kilbarry on Cork City’s northside that is “underutilised for years and growing grass”, according to two TDs.

Extensive fibreoptic cables are to be laid down in advance of the €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange to give motorists real-time information on the project.