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Before 1 January 2002, the council was known as Cork Corporation. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, environment and the management of some emergency services (including Cork City Fire Brigade). [3] The council has 31 elected members.
There were 119,230 people present in the Cork City Council-administered area at the time of the 2011 census, of these 117,221 indicated that they were usually present in Cork. In common with other Irish urban centres, the female population (50.67%) was higher than the male population (49.33%), although the gap is somewhat smaller than in other ...
Between March and April 2018, Cork City Council banned afternoon traffic on Patrick Street, with only public transport traffic allowed between 3:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. While the ban was lifted within a few weeks, due to a reported impact on city centre traders, [6] [7] it was subsequently reinstated. Its enforcement has reportedly been inconsistent.
Egis took on that role in 2015. Prior to that it had been operated and maintained by Cork City Council. The road surface was laid in 1998/1999 and the tunnel opened for traffic on 21 May 1999, [12] roughly 20 years after the first formal studies had been prepared.
It is a branch of Cork City Council. There are currently three fire stations in use by Cork City Fire Brigade; of which 2 are full-time and 1 is part time (retained). Cork City Fire Brigade is staffed by 153 active personnel, making it the second-biggest fire service in Ireland after the Dublin Fire Brigade.
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An election to all 31 seats on Cork City Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] Cork is divided into 5 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
The proposed light-rail system received support from the president of University College Cork, the Cork Chamber of Commerce, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, [14] and former Lord Mayor Mary Shields. [15] In 2020, the Cork Transport and Mobility Forum proposed a combined tram-train system for Cork based on the Karlsruhe model to the Cork City Council. [16]