At a meeting in County Hall, many of the 55 councillors gave examples of problems in their various areas. They have decided to write a “strongly-worded” email to John Halligan, junior minister at the Department of Education & Skills, urging him to get more and bigger buses to solve the issue.

A business seed planted 135 years ago on Cork city’s South Mall still sees a family-owned firm sowing and reaping.

At the Grand Hotel in Fermoy, Co Cork, last Friday, a 95-acre non-residential farm went under the hammer, producing a strong result.

Fresh from a highly successful public auction at the Vienna Woods Hotel in Glanmire on May 29, Michael Barry of Fermoy-based auctioneers Dick Barry & Son is to present an even more exciting prospect to the market on August 16 next — this time at the Grand Hotel in the centre of Fermoy.

The partner of a motorcyclist whose death was caused by the dangerous driving of a van driver at a junction near Rathcormac, Co Cork, described it yesterday as “a stupid waste of a young man’s life”.

Cork Craft Month, starting this week, is a showcase of wood turning, ceramics, and textiles in locations across the county. Carol O’Callaghan reports on the list of exhibitions and demonstrations on offer.

A father of three proposed to his love of 14 years in a novel way over Christmas, enlisting the help of Santa and the elves at a branch of Dunnes Stores in Cork.

After the great storm, the big clean up. As crews start to work around Co Cork, much of the fallout from Storm Ophelia will centre on the Cobh area.

The operator of the €295m Rathcormac-Fermoy bypass in Co Cork has posted revenues of €315,655 a week.

A motorcyclist, believed to be in his early 40s, was killed when his motorbike was in collision with a van in North Cork yesterday.

A man, believed to be from the Kilmallock area has died after his motorcycle crashed into a van.

Locals in a Cork village who recently attended a charity coffee morning for a woman who was going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could never have anticipated she would become ill and lose her life on the trip, her funeral Mass heard.

The Cork woman who died while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro has been named as Majella Duffy from Rathcormac.

More than half of people on waiting list fail to use system

A pilot scheme to allow people on the housing waiting list apply online for council houses in Cork has been heralded an outstanding success.

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

A collision yesterday on the main Dublin-Cork route was the third fatal incident in the last three years to involve an elderly motorist driving the wrong way on motorways in Cork.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

A new online pilot scheme that allows people on a council’s waiting list to express interest in vacant local authority housing has proved a great success.

After five years of suffering, teenager is on the mend thanks to innovative therapies, writes Louise Roseingrave

A rural community in north-east Cork faces serious traffic disruption if an invasive plant, spreading throughout the county like wildfire, has caused structural damage to a road bridge.

A former bookkeeper for the Brothers of Charity in Cork confessed yesterday to stealing more than €16,000 from the charity over a three-year period.

The operators of the €295m Rathcormac-Fermoy bypass in Co Cork last year recorded operating profits of almost €145,000 per week.

The gently undulating landscape lying to the north of Cork city has a mix of farm and industrial life.

An Post Chain Reaction took their first win of the Rás so far this week with a trademark sprint from Aaron Gate as Clemens Fankheuser retained the yellow jersey by the skin of his teeth once again.

A village with a school, a church, a parish hall, several business, and up to 30 houses is to be regulated by a speed limit — for the first time.

A postmortem to be carried out this morning will determine if gardaí launch a murder inquiry, or decide the death of a Polish man was accidental.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Glanworth 1-14 Glenville 1-9: It all started to go wrong for Glenville in the opening minutes when Glanworth opened up a four-point lead in this challenging Cork IFC round one battle at Rathcormac yesterday.

A €6.5m solar farm, part of an independent power company’s plans for 11 such projects in Co Cork, has been refused planning permission.

The head of the traffic corps in the Garda Southern Region has said motorists need to slow down when confronted by hailstorms which, on several occasions this week, led to a number of personal injuries and thousands of euro worth of damage to vehicles.

Foot Solution, owned by the Troy Murphy Syndicate from Kildare, nominated by Leo Walsh, and bred by Con Guiney from Meelin, Co. Cork took the €40,000 prize when winning the Irish Cup at Limerick Racecourse yesterday.

A Rathcormac woman returning home from a lunchtime visit to a local graveyard was responsible by her careless driving for the death of a 55-year-old motorcycle enthusiast who was out for a Sunday spin shortly before Christmas.