Cork City Council plans to develop a range of purpose-built housing estates for travellers over the next five years.

A young woman pregnant with her first child says she and her husband have been left with no option but to live in their car after a court order for the removal of their caravan from council land on the southside of Cork city.

Illegal dumping alongside one of Ireland’s worst Traveller halting sites has sparked health fears and prompted calls for the site to be shut down quickly.

The Department of Agriculture has refused, under appeal, to publish a report it commissioned into how 230,000 farmed salmon escaped from cages in Bantry Bay during winter storms.