Reducing the number of councillors in West Cork is a blow to local areas, says Sean O’Riordan

Rural development grant aid in Gaeltacht areas is to be taken over by neighbouring local development companies, following the liquidation last September of Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta (MFG).

THIS time around, three Fine Gael candidates will have their names near the top of the ballot paper and not many would bet against two of them taking seats in Leinster House on March 9.

SINN FÉIN may be poised to make greater gains in the local elections in Co Cork than Labour.

TWO high-profile county councillors accepted apologies after they were mistakenly omitted from a local authority’s new publicity magazine which was distributed in their town.