The memory of 200 East Cork men killed in the First World War will be kept alive by a memorial wall in Midleton.

A design consultant has been appointed to create two single-span footbridges on a busy inter-city route.

Tributes have been paid to a brave little girl who has died suddenly just days after meeting her idol, pop star Ed Sheeran.

European Commissioner Phil Hogan firmly warned the Irish agriculture industry to further diversify in the wake of Brexit.

Plans for a major new cheese production facility by Dairygold in East Cork are being put on hold following objections by residents.

A series of shortcomings in resident care and management have been highlighted by inspections of a centre for adults with autism.

Dairygold Co-op has told Cork County Council the discharge from its new factory will not undermine water quality in Cork Harbour as similar wastewater is already being dumped there.

An expert report on Cork harbour has contradicted claims made by Dairygold that waste from a planned cheese plant will be “safely carried out to sea on outgoing tides”.

Residents living around Cork Harbour are claiming cheese production giant Dairygold avoided meaningful consultation with them before seeking to build a new plant that will pump 3m litres of waste into the water.

Today, May 26

Irish Volunteers were trailed around Cork by Royal Irish Constabulary on a miserably wet Easter Sunday 1916, writes Niall Murray

The N25 Cork to Waterford Road between Killeagh and Castlemartyr is currently impassable due to flooding. Efforts are being made to open the road and will continue.

Some East Cork families will be seeing in 2016 in five-star accommodation after their homes were swamped by flood waters, while eels were yesterday swimming down streets in Midleton as Storm Frank took its toll on the region.

It was interesting to read about the new study proposing Cork as a dairy centre hub creating 4,000 jobs (Irish Examiner, January 21).

* Ballyseedy Home and Gardens will host an ‘Open Garden Day’ on July 12 from 10am to 4pm at the gardens of Noel O’Keeffe, Silverstone, The Rock, Carrigtwohill.

It was the best man’s speech that wasn’t in the script. But the surprise wedding movie trailer starring the bride and groom, narrated by a top US voiceover artist, left the happy couple speechless and brought guests to their feet.

Dairygold shareholders have endorsed the co-op’s post-2015 €150m expansion plan, following two back-to-back meetings yesterday at its premises in Mallow, Co Cork.

Pre-tax profits at Dairygold Co-op fell to €16.85m in the year to Dec 2012, down from €22.32m a year ago.

Dairygold has been granted planning permission to spend €120m on a “world-class dairy processing facility” in Cork.

Adrian Galvin is just one of the 156 peole benefitting from the work of the Cork Association for Autism. Colette Sheridan hears his story

Dairygold has admitted it may be responsible for a pollution incident that led to the death of hundreds, if not thousands of fish, on an East Cork river.

Dairygold Co-op milk suppliers are being asked to provide a rolling four-year forecast of their milk volumes, commencing next Marsh.

Anglers have expressed fears a river’s salmon and trout stocks will be wiped out by pollution which they claim is possibly emanating from a waste treatment plant and a speciality cheese factory.

Dairy farmers are committed to expansion but the industry has no pressing need for a centralised super co-op to process the extra milk, Dairygold chief executive Jim Woulfe argues.

Members of Dairygold Co-op contributing to the capital costs of dairy expansion can expect to enter some form of tax-friendly deferred loyalty bonus scheme.

Dairy farmers will collectively receive an extra €825m per annum in their creamery cheques by 2020, according to experts.

They have spent years developing facilities and services for their autistic children.

THE board of directors of Dairygold Co-op elected Bertie O’Leary as chairman and James Lynch as vice-chairman last week (see pictures on page 10).

Mogeely property shining bright

STAINED and painted glass, new and old, come with the neat-as-a-pin home Ladybrook House, in Castlemartyr, east Cork.

This is one of the simplest and most delicious fish dishes we know. If haddock is unavailable, cod, hake, pollock or grey sea mullet are also great. We use Imokilly mature Cheddar from our local creamery at Mogeely.

GLEANN FIA is a development of 32 houses situated in the idyllic village of Mogeely, East Cork.

THE death recently occurred, in his 90th year, of Jack Ryall, Fellfort, Watergrasshill, in Co Cork.

A SLICE of local Midleton commercial life, plus the attractions of 0.4 acres of gardens in a town setting, come with 22, St Mary’s Road.

REGIONAL Championships are important to former triple national champion, Niall Maguire, who is the top seed for Sunday’s Ennis-based Auburn Lodge Clare Rally, the fifth round of the Top Part West Coast Championship.

Peter Levy recalls the colourful history of the railway lines which ran through East Cork from 1854 to 1987.

Two men and a woman were being questioned today after gardaí seized a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition.