A €1bn 25-stop light-rail system linking Ballincollig to Mahon via a new docklands bridge is among the proposals contained in the long-awaited Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy (CMATS).

Work on a €1bn light rail system for Cork will not start until 2031 at the earliest with the focus in the interim on improved roads and increased bus lanes.

A €1bn light rail system between Ballincollig and Mahon Point via the city centre, as well as eight new railway stations and 100km of bus lanes, are contained in a radical new transport plan for Cork.

A woman in her 20s became the second motorist to die on an east Cork road in the space of just over a week when she was involved in a fatal incident yesterday.

Resentment is being caused in communities in Cork county as people, residing up to 70km away, are edging out locals on a waiting list for council houses.

A new map proposed by Cork City Council for its boundary extension has gone even further east than the Mackinnon report suggested, drawing widespread criticism from people living in Carrigtwohill, who say it is now patently obvious that the boundary extension is nothing more than a money grab.

Plans will have to be revisited for thousands of proposed new homes in Co Cork after it emerged that areas designated for future development were flooded during the winter storms.

Council officials have been told they will have to revisit plans for two major developments in East Cork, as large sections of the land earmarked for 5,000 houses, schools, and retail centres were hit with serious flooding by Storm Frank.

Cork County Council officials have disclosed they are still intent on developing a 5,000-house town at Monard near Blarney.

A masterplan is being drawn up to build more than 4,000 homes, offices and commercial units in a Cork City satellite town.

Cork city and county are at risk of losing out on attracting major foreign companies to invest in the region because proper facilities are not there for them.

A blueprint for future development in East Cork includes plans for more than 5,000 homes, four primary schools, two secondary schools, shopping centres, parks, cycleways, and a railway station.

Cork County Council hopes to secure advance funding from the Department of Environment to build new roads and bridges which will open up two adjoining sites in East Cork for major development.

East Cork’s Water Rock Golf Course has long flown in the face of accepted golfing industry wisdom.

A 48-year-old man remains in a critical condition this morning after being hit by a car in Cork yesterday evening.

THE EAST Cork property gold rush is in full swing, with bio-pharm company Amgen and its promised 1,000 jobs fuelling a residential price surge.

GARDAÍ last night revealed that a reported kidnapping in Co Cork was made up.

A NUMBER of psychics are helping gardaí in their quest to find Robert Holohan, the 11-year-old schoolboy who it is feared may have been abducted from near his Co Cork home.

BUILT 30 years ago to an architect’s design, the bungalow property, Pheasant Wood near Midleton in East Cork, has many strings to its bow.