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16 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Councillor Chris O’Leary, Lord Mayor of Cork today expressed deep disappointment with elements of the Cork Chamber of Commerce Pre Election Manifesto 2016-“Cork’s Call (A Vision for 2021)”. “Cork Chamber is taking a tired, generic, predictable and scatter-gun approach in their Manifesto document, where they persist with their...
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16 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Following a meeting of the Independent Club Licensing Committee of the Football Association of Ireland, all 16 Premier Division licences and four First Division licences were awarded for the 2016 SSE Airtricity League season. The following 2016 licences were awarded: Premier Division: Athlone Town FC, Bohemian FC, Bray...
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16 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Attention all cinéphiles and Cork French Film Festival followers: in March, Alliance Française de Cork will roll out the red carpet for the 27th Cork French Film Festival. This nationally acclaimed festival, supported by the Arts Council, Cork City Council, and Le Cordon Bleu, screens the best...
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16 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Shine A Light Suicide & Mental Health Awareness have announced their support for the upcoming performance of the play “Bring Me Back Alive” in the Firkin Crane Theatre, Shandon, on Friday the 26th & Saturday the 27th of February at 8pm. The Main Sponsors of the play...
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15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork South Central CPPC (Peoples Convention Candidate) Diarmaid Ó Cadhla will not participate in the Town Hall Debate hosted by Cork Chamber of Commerce this evening, he has described it as “not addressing the needs of business in Cork”. In a statement Ó Cadhla added: “Cork Chamber have...
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15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie UCC’s College of Business and Law is set to host its Work Placement Awards ceremony this Wednesday, to recognise and reward exceptional student performance on placement. In 2015, over 500 students in the College of Business and Law successfully completed a Work Placement as part of the undergraduate...
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15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance candidate for Cork North Central Mick Barry this morning criticised the company which has refused to recognise the union chosen by the country’s 999 emergency service call centre workers to represent them. According to Cllr Mick Barry Conduit Global (the company to which BT Ireland...
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15 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie To date, 160 children from Cork have had their wishes come through with Make-A-Wish® Ireland since the organisation started in Ireland in 1992. Each year, Make-A-Wish ensures that wishes are granted to children who are battling life threatening medical conditions such as cancer, brain tumours, cystic fibrosis, heart...
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15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Tucana Health Ltd (Tucana), a spin-out from the APC Microbiome Institute in University College Cork, is to build a new research team in Cork. The APC Microbiome Institute, funded by Science Foundation Ireland, investigates the role of the gut microbiota, the trillions of microbes that live in the...
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15 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie With the general election campaign underway, Ibec Cork, the group that represents business in the region, today called for the next government to demonstrate much more ambition for investment and specifically for investment in the regions. Balanced regional development must be a key priority to ensure job...
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15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie At an average of €23,410, Cork is the 7th cheapest county in Ireland to get married in. Social network website WeddingSocial.io has carried out a comprehensive study into wedding costs in Ireland. The cheapest county in Ireland to get married in is Offaly with weddings costing an average...
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14 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Hoteliers in Cork this week called on local candidates in the general election to commit to decisive action in support of continued recovery in Irish tourism. Darragh Brady, Chair of the Cork Branch of the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) said that, while tourism has made significant progress...
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