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23 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Cork North Central TD, Colm Burke, this week introduced the Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020 to the Dáil, saying this new legislation is designed to provide regulation in the area of professional home care. Deputy Burke said: “The number of people aged over 65...
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23 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Unemployed and working professionals can avail of Springboard+ and HCI initiatives and upskill for free or at a lower cost As part of the Springboard+ Initiative, Innopharma Education will offer 800 seats in courses in Pharmaceutical, Medical Technology and Food Science in September this year. All courses are...
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23 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Joe Kavanagh has officially re-opened Elizabeth Fort tourist attraction. One of Cork City’s top free attractions has reopened to the public and is looking forward to welcoming visitors back to enjoy its spectacular views and fascinating history. Perched on a high vantage...
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22 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Speaking in support on a Sinn Féin motion on childcare in the Dáil on Tuesday evening, Labour Cork East TD Seán Sherlock demanded that parents and staff in the sector be given certainty on what is happening in the restoration of services and the funding of the childcare...
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22 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Kerry Community Healthcare has thanked the GAA for its support in making Pairc Ui Chaoimh available since March as a test centre for Covid-19. The Cork city community testing centre has been located at Pairc Ui Chaoimh since March 22nd, following a decision by the Cork County...
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22 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Board is pleased to welcome Bons Secours Hospital Cork as the title sponsor of the 2020 county football championships, which were launched today at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. The Bon Secours Cork County Football Championships will commence on Friday next, and never has the appetite for our...
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22 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Airport, the country’s second-largest international airport has released its traffic figures for the first half of the year which reveal the impact of COVID-19 is expected to be the loss of 2 million passengers and more than €23 million in lost revenues by year-end. Before the impact...
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22 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie MACE recently ran a community initiative inviting customers and the general public to nominate someone who had gone the extra mile in their local community during the Covid-19 lockdown and we were inundated with stories of some amazing good deeds done by people. Eleanor Lucey from Macroom was...
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21 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie There’s been much talk recently about ‘hand sanitiser’, and how it’s useful in stopping the spread of COVID19, but – let’s be frank – a key problem in getting people to use it is that it stinks of alcohol! Solution: Irish firm ‘The Handmade Soap Company’ has formulated...
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21 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork based food wholesale business M&P O’Sullivan Ltd. (M&P) has acquired Brennan’s Caterworld assets & trading names, which went into liquidation last month. The undisclosed deal, which merges the trade of two of Cork’s oldest companies, will see the catering supplies business added to M&P’s wholesale portfolio, which...
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21 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Planning a staycation? Kinsale is famed for being the food capital of Ireland, but this year the Cork seaside town has the envious reputation as possibly the safest place in the country to plan a staycation this summer thanks to one West Cork man – Dr Ian Norton,...
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21 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Gardaí have arrested a man in relation to an attempted hijacking incident at Grand Parade, Cork City yesterday. Shortly after 7pm a man approached a car that was parked on Grand Parade and threatened the two occupants. He demanded that they drive him to a destination and jumped...
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