The long-awaited €3bn transport strategy for Cork, which is finally due to be unveiled next week, is expected to recommend massive investment to deliver a reliable high-capacity bus system as a precursor to a Luas-type rail service.

The revamped Cork City local electoral areas are posing challenges and changes across the city but the northside of the river is undergoing a far more drastic change.

The northside of Cork city remains an integral part of the city that needs to see its fair share of development and progress, political and business leaders have admitted.

Farmers recycled the equivalent of half a million car tyres over the last month, through a €700,000 government-funded initiative.

The speed at which 82,000 people are transferred into Cork City Council’s jurisdiction through its boundary extension will depend on how quickly the Department of Local Government agrees to provide additional staff to the county council to handle the changeover.

Trish Dromey reports on homes in Glanmire, Rathpeacon, Crossbarry, Glasheen.

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

Lord Mayor of Cork Tony Fitzgerald has convened a special meeting of Cork City Council to begin implementation of the city boundary extension.

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 city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

The proposed deal on the extension of the city boundary will cost Cork County Council up to €19m annually in lost income and will see around 350 of its staff transferred to the city council.

The mayors of the city and county councils in Cork have welcomed an agreed city boundary extension which could see its population double within weeks.

A new map proposed by Cork City Council for its boundary extension has gone even further east than the Mackinnon report suggested, drawing widespread criticism from people living in Carrigtwohill, who say it is now patently obvious that the boundary extension is nothing more than a money grab.

A former lord mayor of Cork has launched a scathing attack on some outspoken opponents of the city boundary extension, accusing them of damaging the region’s reputation and likening some to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

An overwhelming majority of Cork’s 22 senators and TDs oppose the recommendations of the Mackinnon report to extend the city’s boundary.

More than 12,000 farmers in Cork want the proposed Mackinnon boundary extension report scrapped and have called for the formation of a single local authority to run the city and county.

The Lord Mayor of Cork City has accused the county of “attempts to whip up unnecessary fear in communities” in an increasingly bitter row over plans to extend the city boundary.

Cork county councillors are concerned that losing major revenue-generating areas as part of the proposed city boundary extension will leave them short of money to provide services, especially in peripheral areas.

Cork’s city councillors have rejected an offer from the county council to cede land because it “runs contrary” to the larger city boundary extension recommended by an expert group.

Securing a significant extension of Cork’s city boundary is now of national importance, a city councillor warned last night as they rejected a land offer from the county.

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has remained tight-lipped on a surprise offer from Cork County Council to cede land to the city.

Data justifying the scale of the proposed Cork City boundary extension has emerged ahead of a crunch meeting on an alternative boundary suggestion.

The majority of Cork county councillors see the proposed extension of the city boundary as being nothing more than a “money grab” which could put rural areas at a serious disadvantage in the future.

A 50-acre tract of land is being sold for development at Cork’s Blarney Business Park, six miles from Cork city centre, on the N20 Mallow-Limerick road. It’s priced at €2.75m, or circa €55,000 an acre.

It’s been four months since dissident republic leader Aidan O’Driscoll was brutally gunned down on a street in Cork. But painstaking detective work has led to the arrests of six people, and more arrests are expected, reports Eoin English

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.

The key to identifying Aidan O’Driscoll’s killers may be stored in cameras of drivers who were in the Blackpool area of Cork City hours before last week’s brutal murder.

A man has died after being hit by a car in Co. Tipperary last night.

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

Questions about housing density, traffic management, and potential environmental impact dominated the second day of an oral hearing on a new town plan for more than 5,000 houses, north of Cork City.

The resurrected plan to build a new town with 5,800 houses on the northern outskirts of Cork City will go to An Bord Pleanála again after a number of groups and individuals objected to it.

Up to 10,000 homes need to be built in Co Cork in the next five years to stave off a likely housing crisis.

People living in a rural part of Co Cork which is to be turned into a new town are expected to meet shortly to decide whether to lodge an appeal against the plan with An Bord Pleanála.

Hours of behind-the-scenes talks have prevented plans for a major new town in Co Cork from being scuppered.

Group to issue recommendations on local government in September, says Eoin English

Planners believe they have turned the corner in getting a new town approved for Co Cork after amending housing density proposals and having discussions with the National Roads Authority (NRA) about a road link.

Cork County Council officials have disclosed they are still intent on developing a 5,000-house town at Monard near Blarney.

A husband and wife were both arrested and brought to Cork District Court yesterday charged with breaching each other’s protection order.

The chair of the expert group reviewing Cork’s city boundary and possible merger of the city and county councils has promised full engagement with stakeholders.