What politician cares for our past, let alone our future?
It’s that time in the five-year cycle when local and European candidates suddenly remember the electorate. In Fermoy, voters should ask politicians how they...
Boris Johnson’s madman diplomacy trashes the UK’s international reputation
The Madman Doctrine of negotiation has never worked, and it won’t work for the Brexiteers either.
In April 1971, with peace talks with North Vietnam...
TJ Rea – a businessman and farmer
TJ Rea from Mitchelstown is putting himself forward as a candidate to fill the Fianna Fáil Cork County Council seat.
As a married man with...
Customers still seeking solutions to boil water notice almost three months...
Irish Water is currently looking at supplying customers on the Killavullen Public Water Supply - which has now been under a boil water notice for...
Local Sinn Fein rep says post office closures must be resisted
Sinn Fein area representative for the Fermoy/Mitchelstown area Helen White, says it is extremely worrying to see 159 more post offices now facing closure...
Vincent Browne sparks lively political debate in Mitchelstown
The circus was in town on Monday night, as Vincent Browne rolled his People’s Debate into the Firgrove Hotel in Mitchelstown for the Cork...
Appreciating our impermanent treasures
By Donal O’Keeffe.
This week’s column is, if you’ll forgive the pun, a mixed bag.
A couple of Mondays ago, I got a text from 96fm:...
No success for Jack as Labour hold in Leicester West
Despite securing more than 30% of the vote in the Leicester West constituency in this month’s general election in the United Kingdom, Conservative Jack...
Request for Skateboard Park in Mitchelstown
A request for Cork County Council to build a Skateboard Park in Mitchelstown has been backed by members of the Fermoy Municipal District.
In a...
“That’s not scaremongering, that’s telling the truth.” – Cllr Tobin
When Cllr James Tobin first raised a question about the proposed wind farm in Knockanore at a Dungarvan/Lismore District Council meeting a number of...
