Southern charms

There is a lot going for the southern half of the country when it comes to business or setting up a second office outside Dublin

Cork council reform proposals expected by late February

Minister Simon Coveney urges quick turnaround to allow for 2019 local elections

Coveney confident €50m Cork event centre will proceeed

Lack of progress has been cause for concern but Minister says clear timeframe will emerge shortly

Ex-Siemens executive Paul Lynam appointed to ESB board

One-time brewery manager Alf Smiddy to become director of State energy company

Coveney confident Cork councils ‘merger’ will be resolved

Minister says all options on table after report suggests City and County councils merge

Simon Coveney to address Cork council merger this year

Minister says ‘significant process’ will be made to reform local government in Cork

Achieving Cork council reform possible, says Simon Coveney

Minister will not avoid ‘awkward’ issue, calls for ‘blunt and honest conversations’

Taoiseach says resources available to halt gangland crime

Tánaiste calls for a full cabinet minister to deal with primary care issues in health

Cork sites in city and suburbs

City centre site is at Washington St and Passage West dockyard site is 14km south of the city

Nazi links and colourful history of Beamish and Crawford

New book on Cork brewery details marriage of Carin Beamish to Hermann Goering

Cork council to challenge merger proposal

Cork City Council will be first local authority to mount legal challenge against Government

Mayor of County Cork issues plea on legal action over merger

Cork city and county should work in spirit of co-operation, says Cllr John Paul O’Shea

Cork Chamber’s support for council merger disingenuous, says Mayor

Jerry Buttimer says local government review group fails to show evidence for merger

Cork business groups clash over council merger plans

Cork Chamber and Cork Business Association take opposing views of proposal

Mayor accuses Minister of vandalism in ‘abolishing’ council

SF’s Cllr Chris O’Leary calls Alan Kelly’s decision fundamentally anti-democratic

Former Cork Business Association head backs city and county councils merger plan

Workers Party say merger plan would be a disaster for both Cork city and county

Planning experts oppose merger of Cork city and county councils

Proposal would not address divergent needs of city and rural communities, say experts

Reform of local government set to undermine status and power of Cork City in driving the economy of the south west

‘Super-council’ will see key urban area absorbed by rural hinterlands

Cork in ‘virgin territory’ with proposed merger of councils

It is expected that the new Cork authority will be in place by the 2019 local elections

Why Cork should resist attempts to merge councils

Former mayors are right: merger would seal Cork’s fate as a second-tier city

BAM expected to win State contract worth €100m

Three divisions of the construction and engineering group joined forces to make the bid

Period building in Cork for €950,000

Vacant property is at the southern end of Grand Parade in Cork

Cork local government review may not have time to do its work

Expert concerned that Dept of Environment may assist and urge greater centralisation

Review chairman to consult widely on Cork boundary changes

New model for local government could see a much larger metropolitan area being created

Rebuilding Cork: a slicker city

A series of projects in the pipeline could transform the port and city

Decision on where to locate €50 million event centre in Cork likely to be delayed

Withdrawal of venue operator Live Nation impacts on tender for State-assisted centre

Heineken chief aims to put the fizz back into beer sales

Mayo-born Maggie Timoney has taken over the brewing giant’s Irish operation at a difficult time for the drinks industry

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