22 March 2024 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie MTU FIACHT 2024 That’s the name of the Franco-Irish Cook & Serve Competition, focusing on Sustainability, Innovation, and Teamwork at Munster Technological University, Bishopstown Campus, Cork. Teams from France and Ireland, comprising students skilled in both culinary arts and restaurant service, collaborate to present a three-course meal. This... Read More
21 March 2024 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Details on the MTU Arts & Culture website arts.mtu.ie Munster Technological University (MTU) is delighted to present an exhibition of photography and graphic design by students from Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA. Emerging Creatives from Endicott College showcases the work of three selected students from the School of Visual... Read More
20 March 2024 By Bryan McCarthy bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County Council’s Skibbereen Heritage Centre has uploaded a further 23,000 previously unavailable Cork County burial register records from 18 graveyards to its online database. This brings the total number of burial records now available on their website www.skibbheritage.com to over 82,700, all of which are available to... Read More
17 March 2024 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Young artists who submitted entries to this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition are currently having their works evaluated as the judging process gets underway. Winners in the seven age categories, including one exclusively for artworks by young artists with special needs, will be announced in mid-April. Now celebrating... Read More
14 March 2024 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Public Museum will host an event today (Thursday March 14) to mark the return to Cork of a small shaving kit used by Commandant Leo Murphy who died at the hands of Crown Forces during the War of Independence. Commandant Murphy, a Ballincollig native, was shot and... Read More
13 March 2024 By Bryan McCarthy bryan@TheCork.ie Global life sciences company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced the launch of its 2024 Engineering Apprenticeship Programme, coinciding with World Engineering Day. Delivered in partnership with further education and training agency, SOLAS, applications are open until 24 March. The contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing campus at Currabinny, Carrigaline, Cork, is accepting... Read More
9 March 2024 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Professor Joseph Walsh, Head of School and Director (IMaR) Research Centre, Munster Technological University (MTU), has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE). The Fellowship is bestowed to distinguished individuals from academia and industry, acknowledging their substantial impact on the advancement of... Read More
8 March 2024 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Three Cork students, Lucy O’Sullivan, Sean McSweeney and David O’Connell were among a group of just 24 teenagers from all over the island of Ireland to be presented with Rotary Youth Leadership Development certificates at the European Parliament’s offices in Dublin recently. The competition, which is one of... Read More
6 March 2024 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Centre Stage School, Mallow celebrated its 20th birthday last weekend with a show entitled “20 Years On” at Cork Opera House. The performance brought together past pupils and teachers along with current students to perform pieces from each of the school’s productions over the past 20 years. Centre... Read More
5 March 2024 By Roger Kennedy roger@TheCork.ie The Subtleties of Writing a PhD Thesis Do you get a great desire to have the scientific degree of a candidate or doctor of sciences? It’s so good, but in such a way, you need to write a PhD thesis and conduct a corresponding study. The dissertation for... Read More
4 March 2024 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Between March 4 and 6, 2024 Christopher Bailey – a World Health Organisation Arts and Health Lead, will travel to West Cork, Newcastle West, Limerick, and Galway to meet with people and groups doing extraordinary things in local communities. The Arts for Health Partnership Programme in West Cork... Read More
2 March 2024 By Bryan McCarthy bryan@TheCork.ie MTU Berkeley Centre, Bishopstown Campus, Cork: Retired US astronaut Steve Swanson paid a visit to MTU on Monday, 19th February, to give a talk about his experiences and observations of life in orbit beyond our planetary bounds. A distinguished NASA astronaut, Steve Swanson PhD has flown to the... Read More