10 July 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Former UCC Students’ Union President wins €1,000 UCC Computer Science Entrepreneurship Award for Carbon Footprint Tracking App Ben Dunlea’s innovative thinking has led to the creation of an app which enables users to calculate their own carbon footprint arising from their daily routines and habits, suggest ways to... Read More
6 July 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Andrias Moynihan TD presses Minister to secure permanent Ballincollig school sites as matter of urgency Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Aindrias Moynihan has called on the Minister for Education to secure permanent sites for two schools in Ballincollig as a matter of urgency after over four... Read More
2 July 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The students from Carriganima National School in County Cork are announced as the GIY and innocent drinks ‘Big Grow’ Champions 2021. 50,000 school children from schools nationwide took part in the 10th annual Big Grow initiative, which enabled the primary school children to learn how to grow their... Read More
28 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD for Cork South Central, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, has warned that the government is continuing to fail families through its ongoing failure to address skyrocketing childcare fees despite being in power for a year. Deputy Ó Laoghaire said: “Childcare costs are far too high and are... Read More
26 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Cork East TD Seán Sherlock has said that the review actions announced by the Government last week on school transport to place an additional 1,800 post primary school children on school buses is welcome, but is only a drop in the ocean on what is needed. From... Read More
25 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Aindrias Moynihan has welcomed the news that transport arrangements will be provided for a number of local post-primary students who are attending their second nearest school, who have applied and paid on time and who live more than 4.8km from their... Read More
21 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie UCC transforms its Old Bar into a Calm Zone for students University College Cork (UCC) announces today that its much cherished Old College Bar has been transformed into dedicated space of respite and calm for students, and in particular students on the autism spectrum. The Calm Zone (An... Read More
20 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Estate agents and property services employers in the South of Ireland encouraged to hire apprentices to avail of financial incentive ahead of June deadline Estate agents and property services employers in the South of Ireland are being encouraged to register their interest in hiring an Auctioneering and Property... Read More
15 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Commencing on July 5th next, Junior and Leaving Certificate courses in French, Spanish and German are provided in established boarding schools including Clongowes Wood in Clane, County Kildare, Villiers School in Limerick, Cistercian College Roscrea, County Tipperary, and Bandon Grammar School in Cork. Hector, who is fluent in... Read More
15 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister for Education, Norma Foley, T.D. today announced the official sanctioning of an Aonad Lán Ghaeilge (Irish Unit) within Gaelcholaiste Mhic Shuibhne, Terence MacSwiney Community College, Hollyhill, a Cork Education and Training Board school. An Aonad Lán-Ghaeilge (Irish-medium Unit) is a linguistic unit in which students are... Read More
12 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Free public online event – Saturday, June 19, 2021 The earliest stages of the Viking and Hiberno-Norse city of Cork, its true locations and the lives of its residents are to be discussed in a free online conference about the Vikings and Cork later this month. Cork Historical... Read More
11 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie An exhibition entitled ‘Subject To Change’, will be open to the public from Saturday, 12 June 2021 to Tuesday, 15 June 2021, from 11am to 7pm in the Sharman Crawford Street campus.