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New Mayor and Deputy Mayor appointed 2008 At Annual Meeting of Cobh Town Council held on Monday 16th June 2008, Cllr. John Mulvihill was elected as Mayor of Cobh Town Council, and Cllr. Danny Crowley was elected Deputy Mayor.

April 2012 sees the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic. With this in mind, Southampton City Council commenced a process in 2005 of working together with all of the towns and cities, including Cobh, which are linked to this tragedy.

Following initial discussions between officials and members of the Councils in Southampton, Cobh, Liverpool, Belfast, Cherbourg, Halifax (Nova Scotia) and New York, a Memorandum of Understanding has been approved by all the relevant Councils. On Friday 15th June, 2007, the Sheriff of Southampton will visit Cobh to commence the formal process of signing the memorandum. The Mayor of Cobh, Cllr. Nóirín Doyle, in her final formal act as Mayor of Cobh, will sign the Memorandum on behalf of the town of Cobh. The Sheriff of Southampton will also sign the document on behalf of the City of Southampton.

The Memorandum of Understanding commits the various Councils to work together to market and promote activity in connection with the Titanic Centenary. All of the cities involved have a strong and direct connection with the fatal voyage of the Titanic and have agreed to act in partnership together in connection with the centenary commemorations.

Cobh Town Council is delighted that this process is to start in our town. Cobh was the last stopping point of the Titanic on its fatal voyage and it is appropriate that the first formal step in relation to the centenary takes place in Cobh.

• Ballyleary
• Ballynoe
• Ballyvoloon*
• Ballywilliam
• Carrignafoy*
• Cuskinny
• Dean & Chapter Land of Cloyne
• Ringacoltig*
• Ringmeen*
• Ticknock 
• *Parts of these Townlands are currently within the functional area of Cobh Town Council.
• A copy of the Proposal is available for public inspection at the Council’s offices , Carrig House, Cobh, Co.Cork  from 9.30am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm, Monday to Friday of each week day excepting Public Holidays from the date of this notice until September 28th 2007. A copy of the Proposal is also available for public inspection at Cobh Library, Arch Building, Casement Square, Cobh during normal library hours.
  
  Submissions may be made in writing before September 29th 2007 to Cobh Town Council, Carrig House, Cobh, Co. Cork by any person concerned in relation to the Proposal. Submissions received on or after September 29th 2007 may not be considered by the Council in relation to the Proposal.
  
  Paraig Lynch
  
  Town ClerkDated June 29th 2007
  

At a meeting of Cobh Town Council held on 23 August, 2007, the members of the Council agreed to adopt the Cobh (Traffic & Parking) Bye-Law, 2007. The Bye-Law which will come into effect on Monday 24 September, 2007 will result in the following:

* The existing pay parking requirements in most but not all of the streets in the town where pay parking currently is in force will be suspended for a period of 3 months. Existing time limits will not be changed and will continue to be enforced.

* Persons parking on any street with an existing parking time limit of either 1 hour or 2 hours will not be required to display a parking disk. They will however be required to move their vehicle to another street at the end of the allowed time period.

* Persons parking on any street with an existing parking time limit of 3 or 4 hours will not be required to display a parking disk for the first 2 hours. At the end of that 2 hour period, a driver will be required either to move their vehicle to another street or else display valid parking disks if they wish to remain for a third or fourth hour.

* The changes to the Pay Parking Bye-Law are only in force for a period of 3 months. At the end of the 3 month period, the existing rules in relation to Pay Parking will recommence.

Pay Parking in Cobh is currently governed by the Cobh (Traffic & Parking) Bye-Law, 2003. In 2007, the Council decided to partially suspend pay parking in the town centre for a period of 3 months, through the introduction of the Cobh (Traffic & Parking) Bye-Law, 2007, and to review the issue at the end of this period.

At a meeting of Cobh Town Council, held on 21 January, 2008, the members of the Council unanimously agreed that the following changes to the pay parking system in Cobh would be incorporated into new permanent Bye Laws:

1.No charge will apply in respect of the first hours' parking in any of the streets currently covered by the 2003 Bye Laws.

2.A charge of €1 per hour will apply for the second and any subsequent hour. There are no proposals to change the existing time limits in force throughout the town.

3.There are no proposals to change the entitlements of any persons entitled to a Residents Parking Permit

4.Provision will be made to facilitate property owners in the town centre who are carrying out major renovations to their property and require constant vehicular access to their property for that purpose.

The members of the Council have instructed the Town Clerk to work with the Council's Solicitors to prepare a draft amended bye law at the earliest possible date. The Draft Bye-Laws will be on public display for a period of 2 months, and any person or organisation who wishes to make a submission on the draft bye-law will be entitled to do so. At the end of the public consultation period, the members of the Council will consider all submissions received and make a final decision at that stage.

The members of the Council have also instructed that the Council's Traffic Warden is to firmly enforce parking regulations in the town. Members acknowledged that the Warden and other Council officials are working to implement the policy introduced by the Council in this regard.

COBH  TOWN  COUNCIL

TEMPORARY  CLOSURE  OF  PUBLIC  ROAD

NOTICE  is hereby given that the following roads will be temporarily closed  to public traffic as indicated hereunder:-

1)                  Roadway from the junction of Lake Road and Glenanaar Place to the junction of O’Sullivan Place and Newtown Road.

2)                  Roadway from the junction of French’s Avenue and Dawn View Estate to the junction of Glenanaar Place and O’Sullivan Place.

The roads affected will be closed from 6.15 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. on each of the following dates: 12 April, 25 April, 10 May, 23 May, 31 May, 28 June, 12 July, 26 July, 9 August, 30 August, 20 September, 4 October, 18 October, 8 November, 2008.

Alternative routes are available.

The closure is to facilitate Cobh Ramblers’ eircom League Premier Division matches at St. Colman’s Park, Cobh.

Dated this 4^th day of April, 2008.

Signed: Páraig Lynch

                        Town Clerk

                        Cobh Town Council

                        Carrig House

                        Cobh.

                         Superintendent Sheehan

                         Garda Síochána

                          Lower Road

                          Cobh

04 April 2008

• Lr. Midleton St
• Casement Sq
• Pearse Sq.
• Westbourne Place
• West Beach
• East Beach
• Rahilly St
• Harbour Hill
• Harbour Row
• Connolly St.