Sean O’Riordan

5 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Neil Michael |Sean O’Riordan

Gardaí are said to be investigating the discovery of a human skull in a shopping bag in the back garden of a house in West Cork. It is understood to have been found by a woman renovating the back garden of a house near the village of Eyeries. She was clearing the overgrowth with a digger when she made the grisly discovery. The skull was found wrapped inside an old SuperValu shopping bag. Gardaí were called, and the garden was immediately sealed off as a possible crime scene.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean O’Riordan

The extent of illegal dumping on the side of a main road in Co Cork has been described as “astonishing”, after county council engineers revealed what contractors picked up. They filled 580 big black bags with litter and also uncovered dumped mattresses, discarded old tyres and a number of old traffic cones during a recent week-long clean-up. It worked out as 23 full bags for each kilometre of the main Cork-Limerick road (N20) between Grenagh and the Ballybeg Bends near Buttevant.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean O’Riordan

The National Transport Authority and Irish Rail are being urged to address a serious anomaly whereby a 40-minute train ride from Charleville to Cork is costing far more than a two-hour commute between Longford and Dublin. Councillors representing the North Cork region are to write to both, demanding Charleville is included in the Cork Commuter Rail Fares Area, which would substantially reduce what commuters pay.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean O’Riordan

A team of volunteers who put in thousands of hours are about to break the 100,000-barrier on online burial records, resulting in a huge boost in genealogy tourism in the Cork region. They are now entering the final phase of the project which will be concluded next year and see all records of county council-controlled graveyards completed. The project started in an ad hoc way in in 2010 but really took off in the last four years.

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean O’Riordan

It brings recycling to a new ‘historic’ level — parts of ‘kit houses’ which were brought over from the US to accommodate miners in West Cork nearly 150 years ago will soon be back in their rightful place. Meanwhile, more of the wood is being repurposed as a special gift to a city in the US which has vital mining and heritage links with the same West Cork village.