Residents cheered last night as a controversial public transport plan that would have seen parts of some of their front gardens along one of Cork’s busiest roads sacrificed for bus and bike lanes was shot down.

The long-awaited Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) document has arrived.

Residents living along one of Cork city's busiest roads have submitted hundreds of documents to Cork City Council to oppose current plans to revamp the route.

Cork City South Central was previously a small electoral area but it represents a very different proposition after the expansion of the city boundary.

Residents living near one of Cork's busiest roads are to meet later this week to discuss plans to radically revamp the road network in their area.

Tommy Barker visits a generously-proportioned home in Wilton, Cork, which has been upgraded with the addition of a big, bright, warm lower ground floor.

Tommy Barker visits a generously-proportioned home in Wilton, Cork, which has been upgraded with the addition of a big, bright, warm lower ground floor

THERE’S a bit of work to do at Padua, or No 58 Wilton Gardens, a very well-located three-bed semi-d, in a cul de sac near UCC, the CUH medical campus, and a whole host more western Cork suburban amenities.

The route of the first Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon to be staged on a Sunday has been tweaked to avoid clashing with morning Masses.

AN investment with an annual rental income just shy of €90,000, with most of it coming from a bookies as ground floor tenant, is up for sale, guiding at €1.25m.

Residents have called for the scrapping of a bus lane on one of Cork City’s busiest roads after figures show there have been more than 100 accidents in the area since it was installed.

Residents have called for the scrapping of a controversial bus lane on one of Cork city’s busiest roads after figures show there have been more than 100 accidents in the area since it was installed, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

Your letters, your views...

IF YOU buy the quite-grandly titled Wilton House in Cork’s Bishopstown/Wilton suburbs, you’ll be spending more on doing it up.

There’s a big sale coming up in Cork suburban Wilton — try €70m for size — as the shopping centre anchored by Tesco and Penneys gets offered as part of a Nama retail portfolio worth €115m in all.

Dr Rory Hearnes’ article (Irish Examiner July 4) on the stark and brutal effects of Irish ‘austerity’ should be essential reading for all concerned Irish citizens.

Hundreds of thousands of euro have been invested in cycle lanes and in Cork another €2m has been invested in the Coca Cola bike scheme. But why do potholes still abound, asks Caroline Delaney.

A CORK city suburban site — with a long planning and sales history, as well as one-time high hopes of development — has come up for sale, right next door to the sprawling Cork University Hospital (CUH) campus.

The HSE has denied reports that it has bought a strategic site next to Cork University Hospital amid speculation that it could be earmarked for a helipad.

Given the time that’s in it, perhaps the next time Enda Kenny jets off, cap in hand for his customary pat of approval from Angela Merkel, would it not be opportune to remind her, that over 60,000 Irish citizens were mercilessly slain in the killing fields of Flanders, the Somme, Ypres and the many other infamous locations at the hands of the German military in the two World Wars?

Two teenagers who followed two young women separately through the streets of Cork City, hitting one with a bottle and subjecting the other to a violent sexual assault, have been jailed for nine and eight years.

Your editorial of Saturday, Jan 26, ‘Unions better stick to Croke Park agreement’, sounds like an unquestioning press release from government spin doctors.

Overnight rain has led to flooding in parts, with Cork and Waterford particularly badly affected.

GARDAÍ are preparing a file for the DPP after releasing without charge two teenagers who were questioned about two attacks on women in Cork City on the same night before Christmas.

TWO men were being questioned by gardaí in Cork last night about vicious assaults on two women within hours of each other before Christmas.

I FELT it would be remiss not to take you to task for your editorial (October 25), unconditionally and uncritically eulogising Mary McAleese.

WITH interest I read of Sean Gallagher’s proposal to the Presidential candidates to use a common leaflet and save us, the taxpayers, €10 million.

IN your editorial (August 25) you state “IF Fianna Fáil fields no presidential candidate, the democratic process will be weakened.” Are you serious?

TRAFFIC disruption is expected today as up to 8,000 runners take part in the Bord Gáis Energy Cork City Marathon.

IT might have seemed as if nothing moved in construction and infrastructure in Ireland in the year that most will rather forget.

“HOUSES dancing two by two, Like people at a wedding do,” wrote singer/song-writer and Meteor award-winning musician, John Spillane, about his home place – and Cork’s clusters and long, straight rows of semi-ds.

A PRISTINE, four-bedroomed family home in a cul de sac in Cork’s Wilton suburb is a new market arrival with a practical €285,000 asking price via agents Cahalane Skuse.

YOU have been constantly and correctly querying the sense of the banks repossessing people’s homes.

HAS anyone noticed the big, expensive sign proudly mounted at Wilton roundabout in Cork proclaiming the advent of a so-called green route from Curraheen to the city centre?

THE omens appear good for a sale of this Bishopstown, Cork semi-d, called Josslyn – its selling agent sold the house next door late in 2009, for around €430,000, and also nailed one of the year’s very few €1m-plus deals for a larger home, on an acre site, right around the corner.

Cork City Council will have to spend almost €35m on flood repairs and future preventative measures following last month’s devastating floods.

A SWEET dormer semi off the Wilton road hits the location button to the west of Cork city.

IRELAND was buffeted by storm-force winds and relentless rain yesterday as the weather played havoc with airline and ferry schedules and caused traffic disruption throughout the country.

GUIDING at and currently making just over the €510,000 mark is Anner, a family-owned three- to four-bed detached home on Wilton Road — second next door to the fast-growing CUH complex.

CORK city council will begin public consultations next week as part of a masterplan for an area critics say is plagued with overdevelopment.

BISHOPSTOWN Credit Union swept into the mortgage market yesterday with a radical plan to take on banks and building societies and undercut them on lending rates.

David Clerkin