6 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Three Cork students have won top prizes in this year’s 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. All were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Professor Declan McGonagle said: “were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill”. They were Liam O’Mara (age 6), a pupil at... Read More
5 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Four West Cork students were amongst eight from the county to have won top prizes in this year’s 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. In the 9-11 years age category, Edie Collins (11), a pupil at Ballinspittle National School, Kinsale, won third prize for a work entitled ‘Billie Eilish... Read More
5 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A combined effort from its Space 4.0 researchers in CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory (CIT BCO) and photonics researchers in its Centre for Advanced Photonics & Process Analysis (CAPPA) has resulted in CIT being recognised by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) for producing the research image of the year. The... Read More
5 November 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie National Christmas Jumper Day comes back this year on Friday 11th December 2020 and Irish rugby legend Rob Kearney has once again lent his support to Children’s Health Foundation Crumlin (formerly CMRF Crumlin) to help raise vital funds for CHI at Crumlin and the National Children’s Research Centre... Read More
4 November 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Castletownbere RNLI were launched last night (Tuesday 3rd November 2020) at 22:54 to go to the assistance of a seriously will fisherman on board a fishing vessel off the West Cork Coast. Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat was tasked by Valentia Coastguard Radio at 22:46 last night to go to... Read More
2 November 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Eight young people from Gaelcholáiste Mhic Shuibhne in Knocknaheeny, North Cork City were honoured for their creativity in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) at the 2020 ESB Creative TechFest. Sophie Stewart, Ruby Cullen, Julie Duffy, Sean Healy, Erin Egan, Shane Power, Thomas Coffey and Callum Gately... Read More
2 November 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Senator Tim Lombard has confirmed €72,244 in CLÁR funding has been allocated to West Cork to support the provision of safety measures around schools and community facilities, as well as the development of community recreation areas. CLÁR provides funding for small scale projects in designated rural areas... Read More
30 October 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork North Central Fine Gael TD Colm Burke has welcomed plans by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD to invest over €30 million in free and subsidised higher education places to help get people back to work, upskill workers... Read More
30 October 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork City Labour Cllr John Maher, Local Area Reps Ciara Kennedy and Peter Horgan have said that Cork schools are being massively left down by the Department of Educaiton forcing students to bring in their own sanitiser. Peter Horgan (Labour)“There are huge questions to answer on this basic... Read More
30 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Society, Economy and Environment (SEE) Space network bids to forge links with European Space Agency TWO world-renowned research teams with expertise in areas such as cybersecurity, telecommunications, quantum communications and more have joined forces to establish Ireland’s first ever ‘Space Region’ and ‘boldly go where no one has... Read More
28 October 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie APC Microbiome Ireland and the Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) have announced a new collaboration aimed at developing new natural cultures for food fermentations. Fermented foods are created using controlled microbial growth, facilitated by microorganisms or microbial communities, usually in the form of starter cultures, adjuncts or probiotics. The... Read More
28 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie “The release of captive-bred animals into the wild is commonly practised to restore or supplement wild populations but comes with a suite of ecological and genetic consequences…” The full research paper is available for free at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1671 The deliberate introduction of captive-bred salmon into the wild is a... Read More