By last Wednesday, John Meyler needed to rinse away the weekend. Extra-time. Defeat to Limerick. The long hours on the motorway back from Croke Park.

A significant drug dealer caught with almost €90,000 worth of cannabis and €3,000 worth of cocaine at his home in Co Cork was jailed for eight years yesterday.

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

A member of An Garda Síochána yesterday successfully appealed a conviction on a charge of assault causing harm to his ex-girlfriend.

A veteran Cork City councillor has accused the county council of a Trojan horse-style ‘stroke’ designed to delay and frustrate the implementation of a city boundary extension.

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.

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.

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.

This high-spec Killeens family home has a lot to offer below deck, writes Trish Dromey.

Gardaí say that it was fortunate nobody was injured when several shots were fired at a house on the outskirts of Cork City which was occupied at the time by a number of people, including some young children.

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Family-friendly bungalow has plenty of garden space for child’s play.

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.

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.

An Bord Pleanála has rejected an application to build a new 170-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.

A former Fianna Fáil junior minister who lost his seat at the last general election is hoping to be elected to Cork County Council.

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Children who want to be taught through Irish will have to be driven past a local school on Cork’s northside to others several miles away because of a one-third cut in intake, a councillor has claimed.

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.

A young mother has made an emotional appeal to the health minster to intervene to help her little girl walk.

Cork senior footballer Denis O’Sullivan has applied for a transfer from Ballinascarthy to neighbouring club Clonakilty.

TWO brothers appeared in court last night in connection with the fatal shooting of Packie Hogan near Blarney in Co Cork last week.

SNIFFER-DOGS, air support units and Garda units carried out extensive searches just outside Cork city following the ambush-style murder of a 42-year-old father of three near Blarney on Thursday afternoon.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a man in Co Cork yesterday are searching a graveyard for the gun used in the shooting.

THE Labour party and Fine Gael are reporting a surge in people interested in canvassing with election candidates in Cork, while Fianna Fáil claims Micheál Martin’s elevation to leadership is warming the reception they receive on doorsteps.

THE Government has given the green light to create plans for the first purpose-built town in Munster.

GARDAÍ ruled out foul play last night following the discovery of a man’s body in a house on the outskirts of Cork city.

Gardaí have ruled out foul play in the death of a 40-year-old man whose body was found at a house in Rathpeacon, in North Cork.

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was found in a house in Cork last night.

A MAJOR dealer, active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for more than 20 years, has been jailed for 12 years, with the last five years of the sentence suspended.

A major drug dealer who has been active in a multi-million euro drugs enterprise in Cork city for over twenty years was jailed today for twelve years with the last five years of that sentence suspended today.

A DRUG dealer’s claim that ecstasy tablets were being sold for €2 or less was rejected by a jury which returned a unanimous guilty verdict after more than an hour of deliberation.

A WOMAN arrested at Dublin Airport over the weekend was discovered to be carrying a kilogram of cocaine inside her body.

A MAJOR battle began last night over ambitious plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

AMBITIOUS plans for the biggest ever extension of Cork’s city boundary will be unveiled next week.

AN estimated €100 million worth of houses are being proposed for Carrigtwohill, which is set to become a major commuter town when the Cork-Midleton railway reopens at the end of next year.