29 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie On Friday, April 14th, Cork Tag Rugby will hold its annual Good Friday Charity Blitz in Highfield RFC in aid of the Mercy Hospital Foundation. Tag teams of all abilities are welcome to join those already registered such as the Defence Forces, with the emphasis on fun and... Read More
28 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie 13 years after featuring on the Trócaire box, Josiane leaves Rwanda for the first time and visits Ireland to thank people for their support Trócaire’s 2004 Lenten campaign focused on Rwanda and highlighted the situation in the country a decade after the genocide of 1994. Josiane Umumarashavu, 26... Read More
24 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Chartered Accountants Cork Society held their Annual Daffodil Day Breakfast in Clayton Hotel this week.
23 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An information meeting will take place in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Douglas, Cork on Thursday March 30th 2017 at 7.30pm. This meeting provides an opportunity to meet an expert on the subject and to share information with other people. Speaker Dr Orla Crosbie, F.R.C.P.I., Consultant Gastroenterologist, Cork... Read More
22 March 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork today expressed concern at an offer by An Bord Pleanála to allow Indaver Ireland to correct health and environmental data presented in its application for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy. Evidence presented on the final day of the oral hearing showed that data in... Read More
22 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie An Irish aid worker has revealed how petrified civilians are hiding in snake-infested swamps to avoid getting killed by militia in war-ravaged South Sudan. Nellie Kingston, who works with Concern Worldwide, has been responding to the crisis in the East African nation ever since famine was declared by... Read More
22 March 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD for Cork East Pat Buckley has called on the Government to support a Sinn Féin motion to establish a Truth Commission to investigate conditions at Mother and Baby Homes across the state following the revelations of mass graves at a home which had operated in... Read More
22 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Solidarity (formerly Anti Austerity Alliance) Cork TD Mick Barry will issue a call for the establishment of an Irish National Health Service free at the point of use and funded by progressive general taxation at today’s meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare. The committee... Read More
17 March 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork has expressed shock today on hearing that the decision by An Bord Pleanála on the Ringaskiddy incinerator has been delayed for a fourth time. A decision was due to be announced on 22 March, but in a report by the Irish Examiner a... Read More
13 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie In an effort to help address the homeless crisis in Cork, business leaders are joining forces to raise funds at the Annual Cork Simon Fundraising Ball. The Cork Simon Ball, sponsored by Heineken Ireland, will take place on Friday, 31 March at the Fota Island Resort. The event,... Read More
10 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie RTÉ Director General and Drimoleague native Dee Forbes is the special guest at this year’s Marymount Hospice Annual lunch which takes place in four weeks time – on Friday 7th April 2017 – “I have experienced first-hand the love, care and support that Marymount gives to families and... Read More
8 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie At a meeting of Cork City Council on the 13th February 2017, it was agreed that in regard to the Lower Lee (Cork City) Drainage Scheme Cork City Council would facilitate a Public Meeting moderated by the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Des Cahill. This meeting has been... Read More
