Irish NGO, Haven, which was due to bring 300 volunteers to Haiti on Saturday last, has been forced to cancel its building mission as a result of an outbreak of cholera in the country. Approximately 250 people have died, and it is estimated that a further 3,000 people have been infected. The reported cases and... Read More
The proposals of the Energy Regulator (CER) to half the reconnection and disconnection fee are welcome but don’t go far enough. Thats according to Labour Cllr John Mulvihill Senior from Cobh. He was responding to the consultation paper on disconnection fees from the Energy Regulator published this week. There has been a large increase in... Read More
About 1.3 million people in Ireland are drinking mains tap water which is not safe. Acccording to the Irish Independent 290 treatment plants across the State must be upgraded because they are out of date and can’t produce safe water,e-coli and cryptosporidium and chemicals have been found in tap water In Cork, the EPA says... Read More
The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD, today [Monday] begins a series of top-level meetings with leading US multinational firms in an effort to draw fresh investments to Ireland. Minister O’Keeffe is visiting 13 firms in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts in the US east coast region. The firms span a... Read More
The family of a a tennis coach who disappeared 10 years ago this week would like to know is he is safe and well. Pearse Cremin from Glasheen Road in Cork City, then aged 28, who would now be 38, disappeared on the 31st of October 31 in the year 2000. A week later the... Read More
If you’ve never seen “Swan Lake”, now’s the time! Cork City Ballet is back, and the company’s first full length production of this ballet lays claim to a legacy that extends back to its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1895. But even if you think you know “Swan Lake”, arguably the world’s most beloved... Read More
Visitors to Inchydoney this afternoon are urged to drive with caution between 2.00 and 5.00pm as a Family Fun Cycle from Clonakilty to Inchydoney and back takes place. The event will be well stewarded, with safety cars at the start and end of the cyclists, and roads are NOT closed off for the event. Stewards... Read More
The 2010 Guinness Jazz Awards have been announced at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival and Herbie Hancock has been unveiled as the recipient of the Guinness Jazz Legend Award, thus joining such luminaries as Jimmy Smith and the late Humphrey Lyttelton. The Guinness Jazz Festival has long played a pivotal role in the development of... Read More
An outbreak of cholera in Haiti has resulted in more than 1,500 cases and 200 deaths. The reported cases and deaths have come primarily from the Artibonite region, an area where there was no direct damage from the earthquake, but where there are very vulnerable populations living in impoverished situations. The outbreak of cholera is... Read More
Today, Saturday 23rd October 2010 Cllr. Jim Daly, Mayor of Cork County officially launchs “Solar Without Frontiers”, a new Cork based Charity set up by a group of engaged energy consultants. The aim of this non-profit organization is to bring much needed solar energy technologies to disadvantaged communities in developing countries. While sunshine is abundant... Read More
Some of Cork’s most talented artists were amongst the country’s most promising writers, musicians, film-makers and dancers this week to receive almost €500,000 in funding from the taxpayer, the Arts Council has announced. A total of 59 individual artists from across the country received the grants as part of the second round of Arts Council’s... Read More
Delegates attending an all-island conference on combating rural poverty and social exclusion held in Drogheda today heard that the existence of the notion of a rural idyll acts to conceal poverty. The cost of living is greater in rural areas than in urban areas and poverty rates in rural areas are 18.7% compared to11.9% in... Read More
