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26 June 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Irish Water is appealing to the public to conserve water as a prolonged dry spell has been predicted by Met Éireann. In several areas around the country where water supplies were already under pressure, warm weather has exacerbated this situation. Demand for water is increasing while levels in...
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26 June 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Building and civil engineering contractors, Cumnor Construction are to begin work next week on the €1.2 million repair and rehabilitation of Cork city’s much-loved St. Patrick’s Bridge. An under bridge crane unit – one of three in the country- is already in place and will be used to...
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25 June 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie In twelve weeks’ time, the National Ploughing Championships (September 18th – 20th), Europe’s largest outdoor event, returns to Offaly and a small business from Rosscarbery is getting ‘ploughing-ready’ thanks to Local Enterprise Office Cork North & West. Under plans for the ‘Local Enterprise Village’, launched this week by...
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24 June 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The new Lord Mayor of Cork City – Mick Finn – will meet and greet the Ireland Senior Women’s basketball team at a special community event at the Mardyke Arena UCC in Cork this today, ahead of their FIBA Women’s European Championship for Small Countries campaign which tips...
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24 June 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune has welcome the news that Cork schools are to get 83 more Special Needs Assistance positions this coming school year. This will bring the number of SNAs in primary and secondary schools in Cork to 1,898. There will be 15,000 Special Needs Assistants...
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23 June 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork headquartered HEINEKEN Ireland has published its 2017 Sustainability Report outlining its ongoing commitment to sustainability. Sandy Boundy, Communications and CSR manager at HEINEKEN Ireland, said “This year has been all about collaborating with our partners and stakeholders to become a truly green brewer. It’s only through working...
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23 June 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cllr Patrick Gerard Murphy from Bantry, West Cork has been installed as the new Mayor of County Cork for the usual annual period of June (2018) to Jun (2019) Biography Patrick Gerard Murphy was born in the Beara peninsula and now resides in Ballylickey Bantry. With a degree...
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23 June 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil’s Cllr. Padraig O’Sullivan has said that the €20,000 youth club funding announced this week for East Cork is a lifeline for the organisations that benefit and is calling for a stronger commitment to supporting young people from local and national government. Cllr. O’Sullivan was commenting after...
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23 June 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil’s Business Spokesperson, Billy Kelleher has said that rising insurance costs for businesses is having a devastating impact on the competitiveness and profitability of SMEs in this country. “Let’s be upfront here – Ireland is sliding down the competitiveness rankings, and the Government neither have the understanding...
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22nd June 2018, 9.40pm By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Courtmacsherry RNLI All Weather Lifeboat was called out at 5.20pm this evening Friday to go to the aid of a solo sailor in a 31ft Yacht that had got into difficulties 40 miles off the Seven Heads in West Cork. The Courtmacsherry Lifeboat under Coxswain Kevin...
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22 June 2018 By Mary Bermimgham mary@TheCork.ie The 7th running of the Cobh Classic will take place on Saturday 23rd of June 2018 This event which began as the Titanic Classic in 2012 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the great ship has established it’s place as one of the premier...
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21 June 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister with responsibility for Defence, Mr. Paul Kehoe visited Babcock Marine’s Appledore Shipbuilding Yard in Devon, United Kingdom to witness first hand the continued progress on the build of the fourth new OPV for the Irish Naval Service. The visit came as 11 members of the 56th...
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