Lana O'Connor

8,500 properties are lying empty across the city and county. New CSO data has revealed the county has the highest number of vacant homes of any local authority in the country with more than 6 thousand 600 homes empty. The high number of vacancies come as 747 adults were stuck in emergency accommodation in Cork according to the latest figures.

Some fuel forecourts have started to drop their petrol and diesel prices, but many remain unchanged.

A man has been found of guilty of the murder of his partner who was found dead with 25 knife wounds and a partially amputated left arm in a burning apartment in Midleton, Co Cork two years ago. 31 year old Adam Corcoran was also found guilty of setting fire to the apartment that he shared with Daena Walsh at John Barry House, Connolly Street in Midleton on August 2nd, 2024.