When you see the name of Glanmire, Co Cork, in print, it’s normally associated with words such as “bypass”, “residential” or “commercial”.

Senior Cork County Council officials are trying to get Inland Fisheries Ireland to alter its decision not to allow dredging of the rivers in Bandon, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, and Glanmire to go ahead.

Plans have been unveiled for a €10m flood-relief scheme to protect a Cork satellite town which suffered serious damage in summer 2012.

With flood preventing works almost complete in Fermoy (see report below), the following is the situation in Cork City and other Cork county towns with their works timeline.

A flood prevention scheme, which could cost up to €3 million, should be completed in Glanmire by 2016, according to consultants designing project.

Consultants have been appointed to ensure hundreds of flood-hit houses and businesses in Co Cork are not put at further risk.

Work got under way today on removing up to 200 tonnes of wood blocking a river to ensure that it doesn’t pose a danger to a Co Cork community in the event of a flash flood.

Council workers are preparing to remove more than 100 tonnes of wood clogging a river, amid fears it could cause loss of life and serious damage if dislodged during a flood.

An estimated €50m is needed for flood relief works to prevent a repeat of the late June devastation inflicted on towns and villages in Cork.

CORK County Council is planning a significant road upgrade that will allow more than 1,200 homes to be built and provide a link to a new park-and-ride railway station.

COUNCIL officials, aided by gardaí, have closed off a suspected illegal dump in Cork, which could contain tens of thousands of tonnes of waste.

THE Lithuanian Consul in Ireland has appealed to his fellow countrymen living in Cork to help gardaí trace a missing 33-year-old man who may have been murdered.

PLANS for a major park-and-ride facility for rail commuters are to go before Cork County Council members for approval on October 17.

GARDAÍ have asked Cork County Council to erect a crash barrier alongside an estuary to prevent further tragedies, following an accident earlier this month which claimed the life of a mother and daughter.