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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cork Chamber and Cork Business Association take opposing views of proposal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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