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Archives / June 2021
9 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Mary Linehan Foley recently welcomed an allocation of €1,879,650 from the Department of Transport under the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Works 2021. This allocation provides funding for 70 projects, covering flood mitigation and drainage works, adaptations to reduce damage to roads... Read More
8 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Princes Street, in Cork City Centre is a hard name to pronounce. Old-time Corconians will tell you it should be Prince’s, as in the plural of the word Prince. However these days it is usually written without the apostrophe which leads many quick readers to think it is... Read More
8 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie New Grade-A office building opened in Cork City The Taoiseach has attended the official opening of ‘Penrose One’ and ‘Penrose Two’ at the 250,000 sq ft ‘Penrose Dock‘, Cork City. Penrose Dock is adjacent to Kent Railway Station, and just minutes’ walk from the City Centre. The building... Read More
7 June 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie If Irish cancer survivors had their own county, the population would be as big as Cork City, or the Counties of Limerick, Kildare, or Meath. Today, on National Cancer Survivors Day, Breakthrough Cancer Research has created a symbolic 33rd county in Ireland called Co. Saolfada, the county of... Read More
6 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie June is Aphasia Awareness Month, a post-stroke language difficulty which impairs the individual’s ability to understand what they hear, read and express themselves through verbal or written communication. Despite having a high incidence rate of 3,300 people experiencing aphasia annually in Ireland, there is little awareness about the... Read More