As the hard Brexit looms larger, the biggest challenge will come from the disruption in customs and logistics.

Gardaí have dealt with a crash on the N25 Cork to Waterford Road this morning.

Imagine the scene: You’re the government official tasked with attracting foreign direct investment into the Cork and Limerick region. You collect a team of executives from a global US tech firm at Cork or Shannon Airport. They are interested in locating their European head office in the Munster region.

A man whose home was marooned by flood waters for more than a week has pleaded with engineers to hold off on major road works amid fears it could make the problem worse.

Cork County Council has already spent just shy of €5.1m on road clean-up and repair since December 19 with a lot more expenditure on crumbling roads expected in the coming weeks.

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.

Lands on the Cork side of growth town Midleton, which are part of a larger landbank zoned for strategic future housing needs, are being sold at €25,000 an acre. 

Ladysbridge, East Cork €425,000

A man in his70s has been killed in a road accident in Co Cork.

The former landmark Ard Rí hotel and grounds in Waterford city, bought for a reported €15m in 2006 for a proposed €400m mixed use development, has been put on the market for €750,000.

The south of the country braced for more heavy rain and possible flooding last night, but the public proved that teeming rain can be overcome — especially if you bring your wellies.

Gardaí in Cork are appealing for witnesses after a 21-year-old man was critically injured when he was hit by a car yesterday.

Gardaí in Cork are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision in Cobh in the early hours of this morning.

The N25 Cork to Waterford Road eastbound at Carrigtwohill has re-opened after it was closed for a time this morning because of a road crash.

The N25 Cork to Waterford Road remains closed eastbound at Carrigtwohill after a pedestrian was struck by a car.

Gardaí have issued specific flood warnings for several areas of Dublin today.

Motorists around the country have been warned to take extra care after heavy rainfall left roads flooded.

A three-car collision on the N25 Cork to Waterford road has been cleared.

TRIBUTES were yesterday paid to a renowned musician in Waterford who died in a road accident early on Bank Holiday Monday.

GARDAÍ hope to bring charges of dangerous driving causing death against a youth who fatally injured a 21-year-old pedestrian he knew in a joyriding crash last Friday.

A man has been killed in a car crash in Co Waterford.

A 48-year-old man remains in a critical condition this morning after being hit by a car in Cork yesterday evening.

CLOSE to the Blackwater bridge on the edge of Youghal, but with a Kinsalebeg, Waterford address, is this three-bedroomed semi-detached cottage, with water views.

THE regeneration of Cork’s sprawling docklands remains a government priority, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation insisted yesterday.

THE National Roads Authority (NRA) has called for the country’s road maintenance budget to be more than doubled to ensure real action to tackle litter on tourist thoroughfares.

IRELAND’S key tourist entry points are covered in blankets of rubbish which make for “an appalling sight” that is seriously damaging the already frail economy.

LOOKS like things are ‘coming up roses’ for the Brambles, an eight-bedroom guest house a couple of miles from Midleton in East Cork, at Ballyrichard, off the busy N25 Cork and Rosslare road.

THE National Ploughing Association of Ireland’s annual profits have increased by 57% to €606,852.