Over half a million was spent on shutters to secure council-owned vacant and derelict properties over five years, according information released under Freedom of Information.

118 and 119 Barrack St are owned by the same brothers who own 62-65 North Main St, and An Bord Pleanála is set to rule on their fate too.

‘Tis a long way from Sliabh Luachra Haruaki was reared

Cork City Council has installed five moss-filled "CityTrees" to filter and cool air and to gather data on air quality in the city centre, at a cost of €350,000.

Cork City Council served a derelict sites notice to the owner of "Park It Here" in November to try to get them to respond to the quay wall collapse, Freedom of Information documents reveal.

We asked every Cork City Councillor if they cycle, and if they don't what's holding them back.

There was broad approval amongst councillors for a pilot scheme to scrap bus fares on selected city routes following a motion at Cork City Council's January meeting.

Languishing near the bottom of the First Division, embroiled in enormous uncertainty over ownership and a club legend arguing with loyal fans in the Shed End - how did it come to this?

Mathematical modeller Dr Stuart Neilson, diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at 45, brings his unique perspective to the challenges of planning Cork's public spaces for all.

Details of a second compensation claim by the angling club were not revealed by FOI.

Figures derived from the 2011 census would mean under-ambitious cycling targets for the Cork City Development Plan, cycling campaigners say.

Solicitors representing Hyde family members made a submission to the Cork County Development Plan asking that use of the underpass not be reserved for cyclists and walkers.

An "absence of policy" at county council level and mounting resistance to its use in the city: is our weed control out of control in Cork city and county?

For decades the city and county council in Cork were not really in the business of providing public toilets. Then a pandemic came along.

Cork's Gavin Dunne has had one of Ireland's biggest songs of 2021. It's surpassed 38 million streams, but you don't see him on TV or hear his music on the radio, and he's fine with that. Mostly.

Deborah Oniah hopes Ireland's direct provision system will be scrapped by 2040, but in the meantime, she says, it's in need of immediate reform.

At The Firkin Crane on Friday night, under the eye of the 'Goldie Fish', writers, poets and well-wishers gathered for the launch of Cork's newest literary journal.

Cork architecture students reimagined some of the city's notoriously long-standing derelict sites during a 24-hour drawing marathon held in Cork Centre for Architectural Education.

A new documentary by architect and poet Michelle Delea tells the extraordinary tale of City Seventy, the group of campaigners that stopped Cork City Centre from becoming a giant flyover and carpark.

It took Tripe + Drisheen a month to access the derelict sites register for Cork County, a document that by law must be publicly available; we found just 59 properties on the register.

Arts organisations' plans for the building were rejected on the grounds that they couldn't raise funds for a €3-€5 million restoration, but public funding is now available for co-working and offices.

The Dean Hotel has promised to turn its powerful exterior lights off earlier at night, but critics say the move doesn’t go far enough.

One entity owns 14% of the properties on Cork City Council's derelict sites register.

A series of mishaps and overspends on flood relief projects by the OPW call into question the agency's ability to deliver flood relief for Cork.

In its long history of boom, bust, destruction and reinvention Patrick’s St has always been a contested space. But how will ‘Pana’ fare in its third century? T+D went on a walkabout to investigate.

Fresh information on derelict site levies, parking fines and littering fines come from the local authority's chief executive report.