Work to identify route options for the proposed €1bn Cork light rail system is set to get under way next month.

An Post is considering the closure of some of its suburban delivery offices in Cork as part of a major reconfiguration of operations which includes the closure of its large mails centre in Little Island within weeks.

Last June, the phased closure of the Cork Mail Centre in Little Island was announced, with the decision affecting 240 people.

Coronavirus is causing uncertainty to Gaelic football in South Korea, where the Government is sending emergency texts to people's phones alerting them to new areas infected with Covid-19.

Ballincollig made it three wins from three in the Rochestown Park Hotel Division 1 Football League as they overcame Mallow by 1-17 to 0-15 on Sunday.

Transport engineers have called for the urgent introduction of a road safety module in schools.

The bad weather intruded heavily on the fixtures programme in the Cork county football league, with just three games going ahead on Sunday as well as two on Friday night.

A farmer spent two nights sleeping in his field after dogs savaged his flock of sheep.

Extended upgrade proposals are being considered along one of Cork’s busiest roads in a bid to deliver the city’s first BusConnects-style transport corridor after the original plans were shot down last summer.

A garda working on Scouting Ireland sex claims told Diarmuid Higgins he had been accused. He was never in the scouts, says Mick Clifford.

A woman caught with €800 worth of cannabis in her car told gardaí the drugs were for transmission to Cork Prison.

More than 30 new gardaí have been temporarily stationed in Cork city to tackle thefts, public order incidents, drugs and traffic issues during the busy Christmas period.

Ray O’Brien owns the Music Zone record shop, located at Douglas Village shopping centre, which was forced to close after a fire in the car park last August. Music Zone has now relocated temporarily to a premises in Deanrock Business Park in Togher. Here he meets Marjorie Brennan.

In March 2016, I received an email from Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith of the essential arts anthology Winter Papers, asking me if I’d write an essay about ‘girls in the gaah’.

The Housing Minister has defended the government’s Rebuilding Ireland plan and insists that a large state-owned site in Cork, which has lain vacant for years, is being considered for housing.

The incident occurred shortly before 3am when gardai received a report of a burglary underway on Cherry Tree Road in Togher.

A man is being questioned by gardaí in Cork city about two stabbings in less than 24 hours over the weekend.

Majnoon Yehudie, 47, is missing from Douglas in Cork. She was reported missing on Tuesday.

Mikolaj Wilk (35) was murdered at his home in Maglin Bridge, Ballincollig, Co Cork on June 10, 2018.

A driving force behind addiction treatment, Sr Margaret Kiely is grateful for the many opportunities she’s had to live life to the full, writes Rowena Walsh

Fianna Fáil councillor Fergal Dennehy has been found not guilty of intending to drive a car in the early hours at a time when he had excess alcohol.

Pupils due to attend a new primary school near Togher in Cork in September are facing uncertainty after An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission for a temporary site for the facility.

A heroin wholesaler living in Blarney who was caught with drugs stashes on two separate occasions was sentenced to 17 years in jail yesterday.

Supermac’s owner, Pat McDonagh, has secured planning permission for a new €10m motorway services plaza on the M7 near Portlaoise, despite claims it will lead to the creation of two rival operations within 150 metres of each other.

Andrew Willis, 36, was last seen walking along a private road from his friend's house late in the Coolmore area of Carrigaline last Monday evening.

Two men in their forties have been charged in connection with a drugs haul in Cork over the weekend during which Gardai seized almost €800,000 worth of cannabis herb.

If you think you saw me getting my hair cut last Saturday afternoon outside Páirc Uí Chaoimh, relax. It wasn’t the heat. That was me.

The men in their 40s were arrested following the discovery of cannabis herb in a car on Lower Glanmire Rd and a second drugs find in a house in Togher.

Two men have been arrested in Cork after cannabis was found following the search of a vehicle.

The number of people seeking help for cocaine addiction has trebled since 2016, new treatment centre figures show.

A southern border, a trail of desperate migrants and a wall. These are the central components of a story we have become familiar with, writes CEO of Trócaire, Caoimhe de Barra.

Fianna Fáil councillor Mary Rose Desmond has made history after becoming the first sitting county councillor to be elected in the newly-expanded Cork City Council.

A Blarney man on trial for having more than €100,000 worth of heroin for sale or supply in August 2016 changed his plea to guilty today.

The trial of a man accused of having over €100,000 worth of heroin for sale or supply and other drugs charges in August 2016 commenced today.

The National Transport Authority says it hopes to achieve some quick-wins on the bus and rail network once its ambitious €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area is adopted.