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29th May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Was Seán Sherlock in Cork today? yes he was. The Junior Minister made a swift visit to Ringaskiddy. Mr Sherlock could be the next Deputy Labour Leader. The Minister of state officiated at an event to formally switch on Johnson & Johnson’s two wind turbines in Cork’s lower...
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28th May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The MEP who is a former President of the GAA was delighted that the count centre was in Nemo Rangers GAA campus. Following election he was held aloft by some of the Nemo U21s who happened to be training outside (a still of this appears in today’s...
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27 May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Politics News History was made last night when Sinn Fein’s Liadh ni Riadh was elected on the 4th count, with 132,590 votes after transfers, the Cork-woman from the Muskerry Gaeltacht, from the well-known O’Riada family, becomes Sinn Fein’s first MEP ever in Ireland South. Journalist David O’Sullivan...
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23rd May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Voting is underway across the Country in the Local and European Elections, where people have a chance to choose their City or County Councillors and their MEP’s for the next 5 year period. One of the Party leaders who voted this morning in Cork was Fianna Fail...
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20th May 2014, Tuesday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Photo: Charleville, Co Cork Minister for Finance Michael Noonan canvasses with Senator Deirdre Clune who is running in the European Elections. The Minister for Finance has welcomed an improvement in Ireland’s credit rating. Moody’s announced just before the weekend that it is moving the state up by...
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20th May 2014, Tuesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Details of a new state backed bank will be revealed later in the week. It will offer small and medium size businesses access to 800 million euro in low interest loans, which can be paid back over longer periods. Business Group ISME has welcomed the news,...
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14th May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Green Party Cork City South East candidate Dan Boyle has stated that the government’s decision to announce a grant of €30 million for the development of Pairc Uí Chaoimh while the proposal remains in the planning process and there are contentious elements to what is being proposed, to...
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14th May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Barry Keane, Fine Gael election candidate for Cork City Council has been following up on an issue he raised months ago. Here is a statement from Mr Keane: Shandon’s famous clock still has not been repaired six months after I first noticed that it was stopped. The fault...
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12th May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP, Sean Kelly, has welcomed An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning permission to Cork County Council to completely transform the toxic Haulbowline site into a public park. “This news will come as an enormous relief to the people of Cobh who have quite rightly feared...
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By Tom Collins 12th May 2014 tom@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil local election candidate for Cork City South Central, Tom O’Driscoll, has called on the people of Cork to vote for the City in the ‘Foodie Town of Ireland’ awards, which will determine the top town in Ireland to eat out. Mr O’Driscoll commented: “Cork is one...
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5th May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An election candidate for Cork County Council has a great surname; Desmond. She is running in an area where there has been a long serving Councillors with that name! The new candidate Mary-Rose Desmond belongs to Fianna Fail, where as the outgoing Paul Desmond is a stalwart of...
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2nd May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Good news for jobseekers in Cork. VoxPro in Mahon and Blackrock are recruiting. 350 positions in their call and contact centre. VoxPro handles phone calls and internet based customer support for organisations including Google and Nest. The Taoiseach visited the Cork headquartered company earlier to make the...
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