As for the busiest roads in Cork, the report stated: "Several sections of the N40 Cork Southern Ring Road carry in excess of 80,000 vehicles on an average day."

One car was overturned in the incident.

Latest: At least 60 cars have been damaged, many beyond repair, in a major blaze at a multi-story car park on the southside of Cork city tonight.

The Dunkettle interchange projectis vital to traffic flowboth to and from Cork and delays are worrying, says Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

There was a drop in the number of collisions on Cork’s South Ring Road last year, despite a large rise in traffic levels.

The revamped Cork City South East local electoral area represents a daunting challenge for any single

Cork City South Central was previously a small electoral area but it represents a very different proposition after the expansion of the city boundary.

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for the development of a major housing development near Bishopstown in the south-west of Cork city.

An estimated 43,000 commuters from the county are using the main arteries into Cork city centre every morning, a data analytics report has found.

It was a rocky road to introduce the ‘Pana car ban’ in Cork City. However, even tougher choices are needed over the next 10 years if the city is to avoid being crippled by congestion, writes Eoin English.

The volume of traffic on national roads rose by 6% last year, with the M50 the country’s busiest road and the South Ring Road the most heavily used in Cork.

Cork County Council has unveiled an ambitious €723m plan for housing, roads, and other major projects which it proposes to undertake up to 2020.

Plans for what could be the tallest building in Ireland, near Cork’s Mahon Point, have been submitted to An Bord Pleanála.

Pack the running shoes and maybe leave the car.

A stunning housing scheme with sophistication and quality family homes on Model Farm Road, has it all, reports Catherine Shanahan.

Site clearance works have commenced which signal the start of a €100m upgrade of the busiest road junction outside of Dublin.

The State could be facing a raft of compensation payouts arising out of several road traffic accidents linked to water pooling problems on one of Cork’s busiest roads.

Gardaí are dealing with a multi-vehicle crash on the N40 in Cork.

Nine multinationals employing 5,000 people in a Cork town say they are “deeply frustrated” that the concerns of the local community were “ignored” by planners designing a new motorway.

Engineers are set to tackle potentially lethal water pooling at a flyover which opened just three years ago on one of the country’s busiest roads.

Objectors to a proposed €180m motorway in Cork have been given less than three weeks notice to prepare a case against it.

Tommy Barker reports on a crisply-built property that offers superb design in a great, western location.

Concerns have been raised about the Jack Lynch Tunnel drainage system after a lane closure during heavy rain in Cork City yesterday.

A key section of the main road from Cork City to West Cork is set to close for two consecutive weekends for major culvert works.

Gardaí have been warning the public about parking restrictions this week ahead of the Munster quarter-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The route of the first Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon to be staged on a Sunday has been tweaked to avoid clashing with morning Masses.

Tourism Ireland is to be asked to explain why a paid half-page advertorial on the Wild Atlantic Way in a British newspapers made no mention of West Cork.

Extensive fibreoptic cables are to be laid down in advance of the €100m upgrade of the Jack Lynch Tunnel/Dunkettle interchange to give motorists real-time information on the project.

Set within a short, cul de sac run of The Rise, in Cork’s Bishopstown are four similar-styled houses at the boundary with an undeveloped section of field, and this is where No 4A The Rise, has come to market.

Two separate investigations are under way after a man was injured while setting up a funfair ride in Cork City.

Transport chiefs have been accused of treating women as second-class citizens by refusing to implement the renaming of one of Cork’s busiest roads after the “forgotten women” of the Irish revolution.

Separate traffic incidents involving trucks caused major disruption yesterday for commuters in Limerick and Cork.

The roads’ authority, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), has parked proposals to name a major route in Cork City after the women who fought in the War of Independence.

Council engineers are planning a revised road layout and the synchronisation of traffic lights at junctions in a busy Cork suburb to prevent a heavily-congested area grinding to a complete halt.

One of the owners of historic Vernon Mount House in Cork, which was completely destroyed in a suspected arson attack, said he is “gutted” at the loss of the property but believes it can be saved.

National road planners have made tourist haven, West Cork, a no-go for motorists on a Cork City orbital route.

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 teenage schoolgirl is being treated in hospital after she fell from a pedestrian walkway in Cork yesterday morning.

Latest: Gardaí say they are not treating as suspicious the discovery of an injured teenage girl on a dual carriageway in Cork.