City planners had rejected the initial planning application on the basis that a nearby junction was already busy and experienced delays.

At approximately 7.15pm yesterday evening a lone male entered the business premises on Main Street, Ballincollig armed with a weapon and threatened the staff members. 

The park rangers are encouraging park users to bring reusable bottles when visiting the amenity and refill their bottles, as they need, from the fountain.

A local road user contacted the Ballincollig councillor regarding the road which is “broken, cracked and riddled with potholes and bumps”, according to the complainant.

Three picnic benches were set on fire in the early hours of this morning in the Regional Park, with one bench damaged beyond repair in the latest act of vandalism

There will be an initial intake of six students later this year, with another six students scheduled to start in September 2023.

The toilet is located by the allotment entrance to the park where the Saturday morning park run starts and finishes.

“It really was a dream come true as the venue is completely accessible and has all the services that I as a wheelchair user might need."

Mr Butler said it was very frustrating to see the good work of the council tampered with in this way.

A 36-year-old woman was charged with stealing €19,000 on a date last June.

Cork City Council had initially refused planning permission for the development.

A Cork mother highlights that some students face a long commute to access a suitable place. 

Lord Mayor and Ballincollig man Colm Kelleher encouraged anyone with interest to put themselves forward for the positions.

The damage consisted of black spray paint on some of the headstones and the breaking of other headstones.

A decision on the application is expected in early February.

Councillors in Ballincollig say they are receiving a significant amount of representations about speeding in the town, with a motion being raised at council for traffic calming measures in a particular estate.

The charge can carry a minimum mandatory sentence of ten years unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Cork City Council have installed a network of air quality monitors at various locations across the city. 

LOCAL Ballincollig Fine Gael councillor Derry Canty has said he is “losing the rag” with Cork City Council about the lack of a public toilet in the regional park.

A dog park in the Ballincollig Regional Park is to be considered for funding in the City council’s 2022 Park’s budget after an area was earmarked for the facility.

THE family of the bus driver who died in a road crash in Monkstown have paid their respects to the priest who died in the same incident. Mark Wills was laid to rest this afternoon after a funeral Mass in Ballincollig this morning.

There was disappointment for Cork's Aoife Cooke on the penultimate day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as she failed to make it to the halfway stage in the women's marathon.

Funerals are taking place today for the two men who died in a bus crash in Monkstown on Tuesday.

A call for public feedback on a redesign of Cork’s bus routes has sparked a campaign for a bus route between Ballincollig and Cork University Hospital (CUH) in Wilton.

In our Come to My Town series MARTINA O’DONOGHUE continues to shine a light on places around Cork and what they have to offer. This week we feature Ballincollig and chat to resident Tom Butler about its gems

Cork’s new Lord Mayor tells Amy Nolan he is confident the city can ‘bounce back’ post-Covid.

THE newly-elected Lord Mayor of Cork pledged to lead the recovery of the city’s economy as we learn to live with Covid-19, building on the momentum built in the past year.

A number of Ballincollig residents are up in arms with dogs roaming free in the Ballincollig Regional Park.

A small sinkhole in Ballincollig was attended by the Fire Service on Wednesday evening.

A FILE on the gruesome murder of Mikolaj Wilk in Ballincollig three years ago still has not been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

THERE was great excitement in Scoil Mhuire Ballincollig this week as Irish Olympian and former student Aoife Cooke raised the school's Active School Flag and the Health Promoting School Flag.

Gardaí are investigating the stabbing of a 20-year-old man in Ballincollig which occurred last night. Gardaí were alerted to the incident at approximately 9. 30pm.

PLANS are in motion for more than 70 residential units in Ballincollig and Ovens following two separate planning applications recently lodged with Cork City Council.

With the country slowly returning to more normal times, Roisin Burke talks to a number of Ballincollig locals who are looking forward to life after lockdown in the Cork town

THE public are invited to give feedback on a proposed social housing development at the site of a former nursing home in Ballincollig which has been idle for about a decade.

GAELSCOIL Uí Ríordáin, Ballincollig, has been approved funding for additional accommodation. The Department of Education has approved funding for three SEN rooms and a mainstream classroom for the Ballincollig primary school.

A suburban football club has fallen victim to vandals.

GARDAÍ have been alerted to a pocket of anti-social behaviour in a Ballincollig estate, with reports of large groups congregating and intimidating residents in Highfield Park.

The Echo speaks to students across Cork who have been speaking out about social issues that matter most to them as part of the Young Social Innovators (YSI) Speak Out Week.

Last week saw the fire service called out to the Ballincollig Regional Park to free cars that had been locked into the amenity. The emergency services were called out to the Innismore end of the park, near the Inniscarra bridge, on Tuesday, March 30.

THE Department of Education and Skills has confirmed that the intended interim location for the Le Chéile Secondary School will be on the grounds on one of the pitches of Ballincollig GAA Club.

A COUNCILLOR has said that local residents in the Ballincollig area are concerned following what he described as “unacceptable” anti-social behaviour in the past few weeks.

Pupils at Gaelscoil an Chaisleáin, Tanner Park, Ballincollig were treated to warm sunshine and cool ice cream at school ahead of St Patrick's Day.

A 63-year-old gravedigger was arrested and charged with causing criminal damage to 16 graves at a cemetery in Ballincollig.Garda Gary Brennan arrested Pat MacSweeney at his home at Marian Terrace, Douglas Road, Grange, Cork, at 7.40am today and ...

A MAN questioned about damage to headstones in a graveyard in Ballincollig has been charged.

INCIDENTS of criminal damage in Ballincollig are under investigation by gardaí as a local councillor is set to raise the issue with Cork City Council tomorrow.

BALLINCOLLIG has been “plagued” by bogus traders and local councillor Derry Canty is urging people to report the fraudsters to An Garda Síochana.

A 19-year-old Cork musician was plucked from obscurity and placed on stage in front of thousands of people, thanks to an international friendship - and the internet.

Internationally acclaimed computer scientist Mubashir Husain Rehmani, originally from Pakistan, loves his work with Cork Institute of Technology and said he hopes to stay in Cork to raise his three children with his wife Khadija.

THERE have been renewed calls to repair a collapsed weir at Ballincollig Regional Park, which has been labelled "unsightly and dangerous".