Last year followed a similar New Homes pattern to the previous year, with sales volumes continuing to increase and a higher weighting in the first half of the year. Schemes in Cork which commenced in 2017 are nearing completion and are now host to bustling new communities.

Tommy Barker The autumn residential development land sale market kicks off this week with the offer of a 3.8-acre land parcel on the edge of Tower’s Model Village, near Cork’s Blarney and a short commute from the city and Apple HQ.

A property development firm has obtained a High Court order blocking an objection against its plans for 60 new houses near Blarney from being considered by An Bord Pleanála.

Trish Dromey looks at a significantly extended home in Tower, Co Cork.

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

The number of people on Cork city’s social housing waiting list has jumped by almost 1,500 arising out of the city boundary extension.

Stretching as far south as Ballygarvan and as far west as Ballincollig, the new Cork South-West local electoral area is, by quite a margin, the most populous constituency in the redrawn Cork City.

The revamped Cork City local electoral areas are posing challenges and changes across the city but the northside of the river is undergoing a far more drastic change.

The CEO of Cork City Council, Ann Doherty, sets out the city’s vision for growth, and points out that next month’s historic boundary extension will finally give a voice at council to people who already participate in the life of the city

Property prices are growing in all markets in Cork county but the rates of inflation are varying widely.

A public awareness campaign is being launched to provide information for around 85,000 people, living in areas of County Cork which are due to come under the control of City Hall on May 31.

At least 200 staff are set to transfer from Cork County Council to the city council as part of the city’s boundary extension process.

Two people have been injured in a car crash in Co Cork.

Agreement will be given today to extend Cork’s City boundary for the first time in more than 50 years.

A bid to resolve a bitter dispute between a son and his mother concerning ownership of the well-known Kilkenny group of luxury design retail stores has so far yielded “no compromise”.

Esther N McCarthy picks cosy blankets and classy candles for this week’s round up.

The Dublin suburb of Dalkey is immortalised in the surrealist work of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Flann O’Brien.

Legislation is being prepared to extend Cork’s city boundary for the first time since 1965.

Cork City Council has urged the local government minister to introduce legislation quickly to give effect to a city boundary extension.

Cork’s city councillors are poised to rule out further talks on the contentious city boundary extension after county councillors rejected the compromise deal.

Pressure is mounting on Cork’s county councillors to declare their position on the landmark city boundary extension report.

Lord Mayor of Cork Tony Fitzgerald has convened a special meeting of Cork City Council to begin implementation of the city boundary extension.

The minister for local government is prepared to legislate to extend Cork’s city-boundary within weeks in the absence of agreement from Cork’s two councils.

Cork city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

The mayors of the city and county councils in Cork have welcomed an agreed city boundary extension which could see its population double within weeks.

The way the latest boundary extension story was leaked, compounded by repeated delays of a meeting to discuss its fallout, seriously angered many county councillors, writes Sean O’Riordan.

The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has described a firebomb attack on a prison officer’s car in Cork over the weekend as deeply “disturbing and sinister”.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has criticised “scaremongering” over the contentious Cork city boundary extension issue and has urged the two local authorities to “engage constructively” with the group set up to implement it.

Cork City Council is poised to go on a PR offensive amid ongoing controversy over the city boundary extension.

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.

Theresa May has faced heckles from the public after visiting the London mosque targeted in a terror attack.

A judge has expressed hope for a successful mediation of a bitter dispute between a son and his mother concerning ownership of the well-known Kilkenny group of luxury design retail stores, employing 300 people.

The O’Flynn Group this weekend launches a brand new development of 144 new-builds. 

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

A bitter dispute between a son and his mother concerning ownership of the Kilkenny group of luxury design retail stores, employing 300 people, has come before the Commercial Court.