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17 October 2017, 12.05pm By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Approximately 216,000 electricity customers remain without power today due to the impact of ex-hurricane Ophelia on the electricity network. Fallen trees on overhead lines are responsible for most of the damage to the network. At the height of the storm, 385,000 customers were without power but 170,000...
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17 October 2017 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The Cork based political technology provider Ecanvasser has announced the release of Ecanvasser Nexus – a first of its kind tool designed especially to meet the needs of large political organisations. Ecanvasser Nexus allows national and regional organizations to obtain oversight and administrative control over multiple campaigns and...
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16 October 2017, 10.43pm By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The SSE Airtricity League Premier Division game between Cork City and Derry City will go ahead on Tuesday, October 17 at Turner’s Cross. Following severe weather conditions, the game was moved from Monday, October 16 to Tuesday, and structural damage did occur at Turner’s Cross, resulting in...
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16 October 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork City in line to clinch Premier Division Title The SSE Airtricity League Premier Division game between Cork City FC and Derry City, has been rescheduled to take place for Tuesday, October 16 at 7.20pm The match will be broadcast live by RTE2 as Cork City FC set about...
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16 October 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The confirmation by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that funding will be provided for advanced planning and design of the M20 Cork / Limerick Motorway is warmly greeted by all involved in the construction industry in the Munster Region. “CIF, along with all other business groups, have been campaigning...
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16 October 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Ireland is being promoted by Tourism Ireland to thousands of Italian travel professionals attending the annual TTG Incontri travel fair in Rimini, this week. Seven Irish and Italian tourism companies, including Irish Rugby Tours (based in Carrigaline), are joining Tourism Ireland at TTG Incontri, an important B2B travel...
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15 October 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The RSA is advising driving test candidates in counties affected by a RED weather warning and who are scheduled to take their driving test tomorrow Monday 16 October, not to turn up for their driving test. Met Eireann has RED wind weather warnings in place for counties Wexford,...
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15 October 2017, Sunday By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork City Council’s Severe Weather Alert Team met this morning (Sunday) to review operations in light of the red light weather alert which could cause severe winds and storm in the city tomorrow (Monday). A statement from City Hall reassured that Cork City Council emergency crews are...
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15 October 2017 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Heather Humphreys TD, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Chair of the National Famine Commemoration Committee, has announced that next year’s National Famine Commemoration will take place on Saturday, 12th May 2018 in University College Cork. The event will be hosted by University College Cork in...
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15 October 2017, Sunday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Workers’ Party is to hold a vigil on Cork’s St. Patrick’s this evening to highlight the growing level of homelessness both locally and nationally and in protest at what the party called the government’s’ “snail’s pace” housing programme Workers’ Party activist and event organiser, Karen Collins,...
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15 October 2017 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has called on the Government to reverse a rule which is seeing women lose out on their pensions. The Ireland South MEP said she is supporting Uplift and the National Women’s Council of Ireland in their campaign to have the effects of...
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14 October 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Senator, Tim Lombard, has welcomed plans for an €8.8 million National Food Innovation Hub to be located at Teagasc’s Moorepark facility outside Fermoy. Speaking about the launch Senator Lombard said: “This National Food Innovation Hub is a critical and timely investment in our agri-food sector due to...
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