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Cork City Council has yet to make a single payment under the Higher Education Grant Scheme this year, with the majority of claimants waiting until December or even later for their first instalment. In response to a question from Sinn Fein Councillor Fiona Kerins, the City Manager also revealed that of 574 new applications received...
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Cork City manager Tim Lucey has conceded that it would take nearly 30 years to deal with all the traffic calming requests in the city at the current rate of progress. He was replying to a written question from Socialist Party councillor Mick Barry at last night’s meeting of Cork City Council. Cllr Barry had...
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Cllr. Kenneth O’Flynn has welcomed the announcement that €150,000 has been allocated to the Glen Preschool, Glen Avenue by Pobail. As a result of this funding, the Pre School will be able to construct a new playground and will also be able to put in place additional prefabs, as well as setting up activates for...
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The Munster squad will train in the afternoon (on the field for 1pm). The Munster versus Leinster A Interprovincial scheduled for Clonmel next Tuesday has been postponed. Munster coach Anthony Foley cited player availability as the reason for the postponement. As things stand Munster have ten contracted players on the injured list, two serving suspensions...
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Gardai in Clonakilty are investigating a two vehicle fatal road traffic collision that occurred about one mile outside Rosscarbery on the Skibbereen Road at approximately 8pm on the 26.10.10. An 18 year old male passenger in one of the vehicles, a car, was fatally injured and pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and a...
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CIT enjoyed a memorable first ever win at the men’s Irish Hockey Intervarsities at UCD today, defeating DCU on a final scoreline of 2-1 in the final. DCU looked good in the first half, but CIT recovered, and surpassed, in the second. The win gives 20-year-old lined Cork GAA All Star Aidan Walsh another medal....
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26 October 2010 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Councillors at today’s County Council Meeting passed a motion that Indaver Irelands revised plans do not meet any of the concerns expressed by the Council in their 2009 report to An Bord Pleanala on the applications. The motion was proposed by Labour Cllr Paula Desmond, and seconded...
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2010 proved to be another busy year for the Port of Cork with a total of 52 cruise liners calling to Cobh, Ireland’s only dedicated cruise berth. Onboard the 52 cruise liners were a total of 100, 414 passengers and crew, a record number to visit Cork. Following the Port of Cork’s investment in Cobh’s...
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The Agri Aware Green Dragon Secondary Schools Innovation Challenge is back and is set to once again entice young Cork innovators to develop original and ground breaking ideas. Students are encouraged to develop the concept of a new product or service within three sectors with huge potential for development, namely: food, agriculture and the environment....
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Cork City Council’s Finance Committee meets today (4pm) and is expected to set dates for a series of budget preparation meetings as huge cuts in Government funding for local councils loom. Weekend newspapers report that the 870 million euro Local Government Fund may be cut by 87 million euro or 10% drastically reducing state funding...
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Millions of euro leaves the country each year on Transport, Heating and Electricity energy costs, and all of this could be replaced by locally produced renewable energy in the community according to the results of a Sustainable Energy Renewable Energy Study which were revealed at a public forum during last weeks Energy Week in Clonakilty,...
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Dornan Engineering, which is based in Little Island, Cork and provides engineering services to corporate entities in the UK, Scandinavia, Continental Europe and Ireland has today reported that its turnover year-on-year will be increased by 30% for 2010, bucking the trend in its sector. Dornan provides mechanical, electrical and instrumentation services to industry, including the...
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