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2 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie At a previous launch of the scheme last summer, the then Transport Junior Minister Alan Kelly attracted attention by not wearing a helmet Minister Simon Coveney today (March 2) joined Lord Mayor, Cllr Mary Shields, and senior management from the National Transport Authority and Coca-Cola to officially...
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1 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The 26th Cork French Film Festival has begun. Again this year Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, is Patron. The festival was be officially launched by Cork’s Lord Mayor, Cllr Mary Shields together with our guest of honour Mathieu Amalric. Mathieu Amalric is an internationally acclaimed director...
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1 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork St. Patrick’s Festival 2015 this week launched their full programme of events, with Cork Community Artlink’s parade participants from Enable Ireland highlighting a festival full of community involvement and cultural diversity with music, food and street performances. Promising four days of free family fun, the Festival...
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1 March 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin’s sitting TD in Cork North Central Deputy Jonathan O’Brien will contest the next general election in the constituency. Deputy O’Brien, who topped the poll in 2011, was selected as the party’s candidate at a convention at the Maldron Hotel last week. Speaking after the convention, he...
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24 February 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Professor John Sweeney, a renowned expert in climate change, will speak on the topic “Climate change affects us all – the clock is ticking” at the Cork Quaker Meeting House on Saturday, 28 February 2015. The talk is being hosted by EcoQuakers Ireland working with members of the...
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27 February 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Mayor of County Cork is to write to the Minister for Defence Simon Coveney TD to suggest that “if” Malta does not accept the donation of the LE Aoife, then the ship could instead be moored in the lower harbour of Cork as a floating museum....
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27 February 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven has retained the TYHA 5 Gold Anchor Marina award as well as an ICOMIA (International Council of Marine Industry Associations) Clean Marina Award. RCYC became the first Yacht Club in Ireland to be awarded this prestigious title in 2011 and further...
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26 Febraury 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) Biomedical Engineering graduate, James Fogarty has the won the Vicon: Best Medical Engineering Undergraduate Project Competition at the Healthcare Technologies Student and Early Career Awards 2015 Finals which took place in London today (Wednesday 25th February). James was the only Irish student...
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26 February 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Dara Murphy TD, Minister for European Affairs, has welcomed the announcement of €800 million in funding EU Structural Funds for Ireland, following the formal signing in Brussels of Ireland’s operational programmes under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The funding will support the rollout of high-speed broadband...
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26 February 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Strict visitor restrictions have been introduced with immediate effect at the Rehabilitation Unit at St. Finbarr’s Hospital. The Unit is closed to admissions and the public are being asked to refrain from visiting the unit due to an outbreak of Norovirus at the unit. This is in...
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25 February 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Never mind watching the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork this year – you could be in it. Cork Community Art Link (CCAL) is inviting the people of Cork to join Cultural Mechanics, their entry for this year’s Cork St Patrick’s Day Parade. The charity organisation, who...
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24 February 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The market for Gluten Free products is growing. An estimated 45,000 Irish people are now coeliac: meaning they must avoid wheat in the diet. Symptoms of gluten intolerance include fatigue, and weight loss. To cater for the increasing market many companies have been introducing gluten free foods....
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