Patrick Gerard Murphy News Today

1.45am No candidate elected after the first count in Bantry-West Cork LEA.

The four seats in the Bantry-West Cork LEA have now been filled after today's count in Clonakilty.

There are four sitting councillors and seven new candidates seeking election in the four-seater Bantry electoral area

Though the housing crisis is felt all over the country, in West Cork, there are several additional pressures to add to the national problems.

AS bus usage increases throughout the county, members of the West Cork Municipal District are coming under increased pressure to have more shelters installed.Cllr Caroline Cronin (FG) raised the issue as a notice of motion at a recent meeting of the West Cork Municipal District s

The chief executive of Cork County Council said she is ‘blue in the face’ asking Government ministers to increase vital funding for the road network in the county.

CORK County Council is to house eight homeless families in the former B&B known as MacLiam Lodge, on Clonakilty’s Western Road.Housing officer MacDara Ó h’Icí told members of the West Cork Municipal District (WCMD) last week that the pilot project should meet the short-

‘They dropped the toxic name of Irish Water but nothing else has changed,’ said Cllr Hayes.

WEST Cork – and particularly the Beara peninsula – will be ‘sterilised’ of further development unless imminent solutions regarding the safe extraction of water from Glenbeg Lake can be trashed out between Cork County Council, Uisce Éireann, and the National Parks & W

A plethora of councillors expressed their frustrations over recurring issues with Uisce Éireann at Monday’s full council meeting as the state owned water utility company were labelled a ‘disgrace’ and ‘gone’ beyond a joke.