Cork’s city councillors are poised to rule out further talks on the contentious city boundary extension after county councillors rejected the compromise deal.

Pressure is mounting on Cork’s county councillors to declare their position on the landmark city boundary extension report.

The minister for local government is prepared to legislate to extend Cork’s city-boundary within weeks in the absence of agreement from Cork’s two councils.

Cork County Councillors are to write to different agencies and Government departments to try to fast-track the building of a 5,000-home new town to alleviate the housing crisis.

A mother and her two young children are living in a storage space in an attic provided by her parents after the young family had to leave their home due to soaring rents.

Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a new 5,300-house town 6km north of Cork City.

THE owners of this aptly-named one-off home called Woodview, or 25A, in the long matured Rochestown Rise development in Cork, barely needed the Grand Stand view they had of its construction, as they lived next door and were building anew last year in their former back garden.

Plans will have to be revisited for thousands of proposed new homes in Co Cork after it emerged that areas designated for future development were flooded during the winter storms.

It was once a quiet rural village with a one-sided main street. But following the opening of retail giant Tesco’s latest Irish store in Ballincollig, Co Cork, yesterday, the town on the western outskirts of Cork City now boasts one of the widest retail choices of any town in Ireland.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan is to be urged to halt a number of changes to the new local election boundary areas because it is claimed they will disenfranchise many people living in Co Cork.

The public is being invited to have an input on a new blueprint for sustainable development in Co Cork.

A construction firm boss says the completed stock in Cork is equivalent to just three months normal demand, writes Tommy Barker

A MAJOR study has revealed that nearly 40,000 homes are expected to be built, or under construction, within the next five years in Co Cork.

IS IT a sign of the times that Cork County Manager Maurice Moloney has an office which faces resolutely inwards towards the city?