Historic Douglas Fingerpost points the way to neighbouring home The Coppins, finds Tommy Barker.

The owners of the cross-river ferry service in Cork harbour have told Cork County Council they don't believe it's economically viable to put on a second ferry at peak evening times.

Developers JCD have made an off-market multi-million euro swoop on the Cork city Albert Quay site occupied for the past 50 years by family-owned Carey Tools, including the Sextant bar which was subsequently acquired by the Carey family.

Selling agent James Crowley guides the detached, five-bed, three bathroom upgraded No 21 at €360,000.

Europe's environmental watchdogs are taking Ireland to court over the pumping of raw sewage into rivers and the sea.

Call it the Curse of Walford’s Albert Square.

Cork County Council has been asked to contact Nama to request that the local authority is kept informed about any property sales in the docklands area in Cork Harbour.

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

A stolen car was driven at high speed though Cork suburbs in rush-hour traffic, crossing to the wrong side of the road, mounting a footpath where families were walking, and later ramming a Garda car.

Winners Cillian O’Leary from the Model Farm Road and Nollaigh Hunter from Passage

Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on March 11 in the Temperance Hall Kanturk at 8.00pm. 

A trio of properties being offered for liquidators in Cork include two land parcels, one in Cork harbour’s Passage West for house building the other in Glanmire, for warehousing, along with a Wilton office/retail building totalling 11,000 sq ft.

A Cork-based student who sexually assaulted a woman after climbing into her bed while she was asleep will be sentenced next March.

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.

The environment minister has given an expert group nine months to review the case for the first extension of Cork’s city boundary in 50 years.

A former orphanage property n Cork harbour’s Passage West town, on over seven acres and being sold for the HSE, carries a €750,000 asking price.

Gardaí who were suspicious of drug-related activity in a house at Passage West, Co Cork, obtained a warrant to search the home and found a cannabis bar worth over €500 in a kitchen cupboard.

* Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on Wednesday May 14 at 8.00pm with guest speaker Rachel Budd, Organic Horticulturalist. Everyone welcome, €5 with refreshments served.

A dog was stabbed 12 times by a man foraging for mushrooms near Monkstown Golf Club and, yesterday, two men gave conflicting accounts of the incident.

Kathleen Lynch doesn’t get it. If the psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists say that “early discharge” from hospital has a bearing on the increase in suicide rates, then they are correct.

A total of 1,375 applicants have applied for 80 recruit vacancies in the Naval Service, showing a career on the ocean waves is becoming a popular choice for young people.

This government regularly quotes what happens in the UK when trying to promote their particular brainchild.

A woman has been forced to abandon her family home after freak flooding surrounded it by “an ocean of water”.

A Cork nursing home, which closed earlier this year, has been sharply criticised by the Employment Appeals Tribunal for its bullying of a worker who was fired after allegedly stealing a mug.

WATERFORD SHC FINAL:

THIS is how cycling should be.

A 36-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother of three in Passage West last February was formally arrested and charged with a new count of arson yesterday.

The people of Passage East have always gone to sea, but yesterday all they could do was think about the boat that failed to come home.

A small coastal community in Co Waterford is shrouded in tragedy this morning following the deaths of three brothers who drowned when their fishing boat capsized.

The environment minister wants to see concrete progress on the first boundary extension for Cork City in almost 50 years — before next year’s local elections.

Completion of the file in the case against a 36-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother of three in Passage West has been delayed to allow for the inclusion of documents related to his previous medical history.

Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend the funeral later of a mother of three whose body was found by firefighters in a house in Cork at the weekend.

The tide sure has turned since Knockane last graced these pages.

A CHANGE of retail brand is on the cards, with the planned €4m sale of a modern supermarket in Cork harbour town, Passage West.

An estimated 10,000 coastal rowing enthusiasts and tourists will descend on a west Cork village next weekend for national championship finals.

One of Ireland’s largest maritime festivals kicks off in Cork tonight marking the start of a bumper bank holiday weekend of water and land-based activity.

I thought that on the anniversary of the excommunication of Martin Luther it would be a good time for me to add my tupennyworth regarding the silencing of dissent amongst Irish clergy by the Vatican.

It took Waterford County Board delegates less than 10 minutes last night to formally ratify two former hurling greats as county senior selectors to replace Nicky Cashin and Br Philip Ryan whose unexpected resignations within the past week sent shock waves through the county.

THERE’S a lot of homogeneity about Irish house design, with very little variation from the standard — and that’s why something as mildly tweaked as the house designs at Charlemont Heights stand out.

FOR the first time in the history of the State a credible and sizeable opposition has been elected to Dáil Eireann and don’t we know it?

LIKE many Irish people I have relatives buried in France.

AT a time when banks are struggling to find funds for legitimate business projects and house purchase it seems ludicrous for the Government to allow the advancement of finance for the procurement of new cars.