Each episode of the Cork Chronicles podcast will take listeners on a journey through time, from the poignant story of the Titanic’s final port of call in Cobh, to the living traditions of folklore, local museums and community led heritage initiatives.

There are four distinct types of mini kit available to borrow from the libraries, covering bats, birds, bugs, and plants.

The total number of vacant sites, calculated at the start of each year, was 177 in 2022. This fell to 141 in 2023 and 142 in 2024, but rose again to 183 at the start of 2025.

A total of €1.9m in fines was issued from January 1, 2020 to July 21 this year, data provided by Cork County Council has shown, with the amount of the fines increasing year-on-year.

Mr Collins, a councillor for Kanturk-Mallow, was from Meelin village in Duhallow, North Cork.

The schemes are the 2026 Built Heritage Investment Scheme (BHIS) and the Historic Thatched Buildings Stream (HTB).

This brings to €2,331,377 the total amount allocated to the county under the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS).

Testing commissioned by Cork Fine Gael TD Colm Burke showed that samples taken from the stream “had microbiological results similar to the leachate from a septic tank” and were “at the highest level of contamination”.

There have been 1,211 fines for parking or stopping in a disabled parking bay in Cork since 2023 — 544 in 2023, 473 in 2024, and 194 in 2025 so far, according to data provided by justice minister Jim O’Callaghan and gardaí.

The development will consist of inlet works, primary treatment, secondary treatment, discharge works, sludge treatment works, a stormwater storage tank and pumping station.

Cork County Council secured €30,000 in funding forrevitalisation works to Chateaulin Orchard Town Park in Clonakilty.

Fianna Fáil’s Aindrias Moynihan confirmed that both bodies have met to agree on a joint approach to the project

Independent Ireland TD Ken O’Flynn said he was also told by a council staff member that the council has exhausted its annual housing repair budget.

Municipal district councils around the county will benefit as the €7.6m over four years (€1.9m per year) generated by this extra 5% will be available to them to carry out footpath repairs and other maintenance tasks.

The total — more than €2.6m — was paid to elected members of Cork County Council during 2024, with 14 councillors receiving payments in excess of €50,000.

The report shows that throughout April, May, and June, there were 327 new housing completions in the Cork City Council area and 516 in the Cork County Council area

Skibbereen-based Fianna Fáil councillor Joe Carroll was elected unopposed

A recent meeting of Cork County Council’s Western Division there are 'six abandoned boats sitting around' that really spoil the area around Roaringwater Pier in Aughadown

Applications will open on August 11 for the new two-, three-, and four-bed houses, which are located in Silverwood, Youghal.

The league table showed Cork County Council lying 25th out of 31 councils in the country, drawing comments from councillors at Monday's meeting.

He had served as Mayor of Clonakilty Urban District Council for a number of terms until its abolition in 2014, and subsequently served as a member of the town’s Mayoral Council, which was set up to ensure the town maintained a tradition of more than 400 years of electing a First Citizen.

A Council senior executive officer said that Skibbereen is well serviced with public toilets which are available both at the playground and in the public carpark.

One councillor said that in reality what is needed in Clonakilty is a bypass, but that's at least 25 years away.

The issue was raised in a motion proposed by Independent Ireland councillor Daniel Sexton which asked: “That Cork County Council pursues options to repair and reopen the closed bridge connecting the townlands of Cather Conway and Letter in Clonakilty, which links roads L-8597 and L-4034.”

Mac Cárthaigh was chosen for the award based on their works in expanded print-media, sculpture, video, and sound.

The event is to get underway on Saturday, July 19, when 25 teams representing 16 nations arrive in mid Cork to begin training along the 2.8km Coachford Greenway shoreline.

Mr Mulcahy has created a petition to assess the local demand for the project. 

Fianna Fáil councillor Audrey Buckley raised a motion requesting that the Council writes to the Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless, to call on the Minister to urgently review the application system

Ms Linehan Foley had been elected previously as mayor during in June 2020 when the pandemic imposed serious restrictions on her role.

Jennifer Marley, 88, has just weeks to find a home as calls grow for urgent action from Cork County Council

Fianna Fáil’s Ireland South MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, a member of the EU Tourism Taskforce, said an opportunity was being missed by the failure to provide sites for and regulate campervan tourism in Ireland as is done on continental Europe.

Cork County Council heard that some headstones are inaccessible and family members have to pray over the graves of other people

Cork County Council's Summer Stars Reading Programme encourages students to maintain their reading progress outside the classroom.

The developer pledged to spend up to €25m conserving and adapting the 200-year-old bonded warehouses.

The event will see mayors, elected political leaders and public health professionals from across the WHO European Region gather, to strengthen political leadership and cross-sector collaboration on climate action and health. 

The value of the parking fines issued this year amounts to €1,061,500, a rise of more than €95,000 on the value of fines issued during the same time period in 2024.

The audit report relating to Cork City Council for 2023 revealed that while the authority collected €1.1m of derelict site levies, arrears at year's end had grown to almost €5m.

A more “joined up” approach is needed if the real potential of rural bus routes in Cork is to be fully realised, according to a West Cork councillor.

The new homes, which will be built to complement the village infrastructure, will consist of one three-bed house, two two-bed houses, and four one-bed houses.

Under the Ready to Build scheme, introduced in 2022, the public can buy a site from a local authority to build a home on. The sites are sold in towns and villages at reduced prices of up to €30,000 below the market value.

The Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government has today announced €23m funding for local authorities nationally to carry out adaptations, extensions and other improvements to social homes.

Alan Mahy is now constantly monitoring the weather forecasts and has called on Met Éireann to issue flood warnings as well as wind and rain warnings in forecasts.

The improvements works at the Mallow facility will reduce emissions and save Cork County Council money by reducing energy costs. 

Fine Gael councillor Aileen Browne also sought the support of her councillor colleagues for a letter to be written to the health minister, seeking to provide dedicated funding to all local authorities and government departments to install dispensers in all public buildings such as schools and third- level institutions.

The toolkit will serve as a one-stop guide for festival organisers across the county, including a directory of useful contacts and checklists.

This new service means that the libraries in the three towns will be open from 8am until 10pm, seven days a week, 365 days a year, equating to a rise from 40 hours to 98 hours per week or a 145% increase in opening hours at all participating facilities.  

'In recent weeks, I’ve had the honour of attending and supporting a wide range of activities that show just how diverse, inclusive, and forward-thinking our county is.'

The local authority is inviting schools from across the county to apply for ‘Frameworks’ a unique classroom-based education programme that offers students the chance to engage with the Cork County art collection.

Cork County Council approved plans for 469 homes on a site at Castlepark on St Joseph’s Road, Mallow, Co Cork

The scheme is aimed at people who do not own a home and are above the threshold for social housing, but have difficulty affording private rented accommodation.