Road repairs, grass-cutting, and other services are not being delivered to a lot of people in Co Cork as the local authority is starved of money due to the Government taking 20% of the local property tax (LPT).

There has been a broad welcome to government plans to expand rural bus services, including night-time buses, although Michael Healy-Rae TD has pointed out that the scheme was “not adequate”.

Michael Clifford gets to the bottom of the post office closure crisis in rural Ireland and meets the faces behind the local service.

The Irish Examiner was privy to a special day in ladies footballer Bríd Stack's life recently, and we'd like to share it with all of you.

Council officials have been accused of ignoring villages in north-west Cork, which “are dying on their feet” because they are not being included in ambitious plans to tackle the housing crisis.

Coillte spends €450k a year cleaning up litter. We meet the contractor who’s out to bust the dumpers. Are bin charges to blame? asks Donal O’Keeffe

Cork County Council is to write to the European Commission seeking an investigation into why the government continues to stall on releasing Leader funding for rural development projects.

Lives are being put at risk as mobile phone coverage has become so poor in recent months in several parts of Cork county.

ONCE a familiar sight in upland areas, the red grouse is only rarely seen these days, says Donal Hickey. 

Homeseekers in Co Cork are at a distinct disadvantage to social housing hopefuls in Cork City.

Sincere thanks to the Irish Examiner on the piece on the serious decline of rural Ireland as illustrated in the article on the parish of Tournafulla.

More than 240 families renting council houses in North Cork will be feeling a lot cosier this winter following the announcement that insulation and draft-proofing works are to start on their homes.

Five men have now been arrested in connection with the violent death of a 36-year-old man in north Cork last February.

You can test your sporting prowess or general knowledge at the Twomey Family Remorial weekend on June 6/7 in Meelin and Rockchapel, North Cork.

Born just two miles from the Kerry border, Cork’s Bríd Stack knows all about rivalry and bragging rights.

Cork County Council is prepared to put €3.5m of its own money into Leader programmes to bridge a massive government cut to their funding.

Gardaí believe more than one person was responsible for the violent death of a north Cork man and that they must have used some form of transport to get to and from his isolated home.

West Cork initiative an attempt to bridge policing gaps created by recessionary manpower shortage

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It’s gas! A pungent smell wafting around an area sparked a major alert and resulted in a surprise find — a cannabis grow-house.

THE unresolved issue of protecting a bird prey will land on the desk of the new Arts and Heritage Minister, Heather Humphreys.

It’s a weekend for the great outdoors with fingers crossed for fine weather and lots of events in the south-west for locals and tourists.

A man has been arrested after cocaine was seized in Cork.

Cork County Council and Irish Water have issued a boil water notice to almost 80 parts of the county due to fears that the supply was contaminated during Wednesday’s storms.

The Denis Prendergast-trained newcomer Free Expression lit up yesterday’s Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point at Dromahane by posting a terrific stamina-laden performance with Kevin Power to win a vintage second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

A RECENT decision by An Bord Pleanala, to give planning permission for road improvements to a wind-farm site near Rockchapel, Co Cork, highlights access problems.

People will ‘rest in peace’ more comfortably in West Cork than other parts of the county — knowing the cost of a burial plot in the coastal haven is a fraction of the price elsewhere.

Cork County Council has turned matchmaker to the region’s artists and venue owners in a bid to connect them ahead of next month’s colourful Culture Night.

The mother of one of the women murdered by John Geary has appealed to people trying to escape a controlling relationship to be wary of the danger they could be in.

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The removal takes place tonight of a Corkman who has died 10 months after a car crash in England that claimed the lives of his son and unborn daughter.

Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann is planning to build a €500,000 “centre of excellence” in a Co Cork village which, it is envisaged, will spawn a money-spinning touring Riverdance-type show focusing on ancient Irish music and dance.

As shortlived as a smile, Irish snow rarely lasts beyond lunchtime, and so, while yesterday began as the best Monday ever for many children, come home time, the whiteness was gone.

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A SHARP decline in the number of salmon entering a well-known angling river could close it as a fishery in 2013.

A special Mass was said for the Twomey family last night in Rockchapel in Cork as Con Twomey and his wife, Elber, remain in critical condition.