Serious concerns are being raised about the impact rising mortgage costs are having on Cork families with evidence showing that a number of private home owners have approached Cork City Council, asking the authority to buy their homes from them because they cannot meet their costs.

Property developer the Shipton Group have unveiled major plans for the redevelopment of the former Fermoy Marts site in the centre of the North Cork town to which will see a major mixed-use development built on the site.

The implementation of new systems for charging schools for water will cost Cork City Council in the region of €200,000 this year, City Manager Joe Gavin has confirmed.

Artist George McCutcheon from Kilkenny shows his work to Dr Garret Fitzgerald at the launch of the Jennings Gallery in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex at UCC.

The parents of Sophie Tuscan de Plantier, Marguerite and Georges Bouniol, near Goleen last weekend laying flowers at the memorial cross marking the spot where Sophie’s body was found.

Minister for Industry Trade and Enterprise Micheál Martin meets guide dog Judy at the launch of the Irish Guide Dogs for the blind strategic plan in Cork this week.

New figures reveal that almost 30 per cent of private group water supply schemes in the county had incidents of E.coli contamination in 2006-2007.

The National Sculpture Factory (NSF), based in Cork announced their programme for 2008 today (Thursday).

Stryker Corporation has announced that it is voluntarily recalling two products manufactured at its Cork facility.

Health Forum member and city councillor Catherine Clancy has lodged an official objection to Cork City Council's planning department to the proposed retention of O2 mobile phone equipment located on top of Cork University Hospital (CUH).