12th January 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork City Anti Austerity Alliance Councillor Mick Barry this morning claimed that a “privatisation agenda” was preventing massive cuts in heating and lighting prices for households around the country. Councillor Barry said that the price of crude oil has fallen by more than 50% in recent months and... Read More
11th January 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Photographs from last weeks Cork Business Association (CBA) 4th Quarter Award Presentation to TopShop/TopMan on Opera Lane.
11 January 2015 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie This Friday (16 January 2015) the Cork Person of the Year will be chosen, at a glittering gala awards lunch at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. Michael Flatley will also be made Honorary Corkman at the event and the presentation will be made by last year’s recipient Jeremy... Read More
11th January 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie “Live Register Figures show that unemployment has been dropping for 30 months in a row and that in Co. Cork, there has been a fall of 24%.. This is very much to be welcomed” says Noel Harrington, Fine Gael TD for Cork South West. “Another drop in the... Read More
11th January 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie What is the Southern Regional Assembly? We tried for a year to attend a meeting of its predecessor, but they take place in Waterford, alas we are in Cork. Plus there always seemed to be something else more Newsworthy on the day of the meetings. Well the Inaugural... Read More
9th January 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fine Gael TD for Cork North West, Áine Collins, has said that new intellectual property legislation will be good for pharma jobs in Cork. Deputy Collins was speaking after the enactment of the Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act. “The new intellectual property legislation enacted this week is a... Read More
8th January 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Work is scheduled to begin this week on the new state-of-the-art secondary school in Skibbereen to accommodate 1,000 students. The new secondary school will replace Mercy Heights, De la Salle and Rossa College and bring them all together under one roof. Plans to amalgamate the schools on one... Read More
7 January 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The elegant and eloquent Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr. Kenneth O’ Flynn has dismissed criticism from fellow Councillors and other critics of the decision to fund and place the Events Centre within the City Centre. Cllr O’ Flynn said “its quite obvious that some people fail to... Read More
7 January 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Airport has launched a new flight tracking feature on its app. The airport is the first airport in the world to offer this feature which will allow passengers to click on a flight number and track live updates of exactly where the plane is at that moment... Read More
7th January 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance councillor Marion O’Sullivan this morning warned Fine Gael and Labour that they would pay a heavy price at the next General Election for “setting the Revenue Commissioners on the people” in relation to the Local Property Tax. Her warning came on the deadline day for... Read More
6 January 2015 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Minister for Agriculture, Food, the Marine and Defence, Minister Simon Coveney TD today praised the work being undertaken at Waterpark House, the temporary building for the new Gaelcholáiste in Carrigaline. The Minister made his comments as he toured the interim building with Chief Executive of Cork Education... Read More