‘Fix my Pothole’ website needed says County Council Candidate

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... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, FIANNA FAIL, LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS

2nd May, 2014

[Video] 350 new jobs in VoxPro Cork

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... Read More

FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS

2nd May, 2014

[Audio] Arts Minister inspects new Skibbereen Arts Centre

2nd May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan was in Skibbereen, West Cork this afternoon to view construction works on the new building for the West Cork Arts Centre, due to open in 2 months time. Established 20 years ago the WCAC has outgrown it’s current... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT, FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS

2nd May, 2014

[Audio] New CEO for Cork Business Association

3rd May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork Business Association has a new C-E-O. Lawrence Owens is taking over from Donal Healy; who recently retired having served seven years. Lawrence has a long association with CBA, and has been involved with the retail trade for over 35 years: working his way up in Roches... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS

2nd May, 2014

[Audio] Cork schools to benefit from Summer works scheme

2nd May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie 48 schools in Cork will benefit from refurbishment works over the summer being paid for by the Department of Education. It’s called the “Summer works scheme”. The schools which will benefit from Round 2 have been announced. The majority of work will be refurbishing toilets and roofs. The... Read More

LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS

1st May, 2014

[Audio] People power saves Northside bus route

1st April 2014 By Tom Collins & Bryan Smyth tom@TheCork.ie & bryan@TheCork.ie The 8-month campaign to restore a “full bus service” to the Glen, Blackpool and Dublin Hill has succeeded! More than 40 residents met last night in the Glen Resource Centre. They voted by an overwhelming majority to accept proposals from the National Transport... Read More

NEWS

30th April, 2014

[Audio] New Navy ship arrives into Cork

30th April 2014, Wednesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Irish Naval Service have taken delivery of a new vessel. The 50 million euro LE. Samuel Beckett is around 300 feet in length, and was built at a shipyard in Devon, England. She weighs almost 2-thousand tonnes, and can hold 54 people. The Samuel Beckett... Read More

NEWS

30th April, 2014

[Audio] Change of polling day for Clonakilty Mayoral elections

30th April 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Voting in Clonakilty’s independent poll to elect a Community Mayor has been put back by one day. The Local Dúchas Heritage Group want the West Cork Tourist town to have some form of a Mayor to represent the area after the Statutory Town Council, and “Town Mayor”... Read More

NEWS

29th April, 2014

[Audio] Should Cork Airport be renamed after Rory Gallagher?

29th April 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A campaign to rename Cork Airport after the the famous guitarist Rory Gallagher is continuing to gain momentum. More than 10-thousand people have signed a petition. Gallagher passed away in 1995 at the young age of 47. He was one described by Jimi Hendrix as the “world’s... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, ENTERTAINMENT, FIANNA FAIL, NEWS, POLITICS

28th April, 2014

Labour Leader must resign – says Co Cork Labour Cllr

29th April 2014, Tuesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A Labour County Councillor in Cork has called on the leader of his own party to step down. Cllr Noel McCarthy from the Fermoy/Mitchelstown Area says Labour Leader Eamon Gilmore “must go order to save the party”, His views echo those of Phil Prendergast MEP, who... Read More

NEWS

26th April, 2014

Revenue Seizes Tobacco and Counterfeit Vodka in Cork

26th April 2014 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Revenue Seizes Tobacco and Counterfeit Vodka in Cork In an intelligence led operation, Officers from Revenue’s Customs Service seized 56kgs of illegal tobacco and 20 cases of counterfeit vodka on the M8 near Fermoy last night (25/04/14 ). The seizure has a total retail value of approximately €27,500.... Read More

NEWS

23rd April, 2014

Free money (for worthy Cork causes)

24th April 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic fund exclusively focused on the Cork region, have announced the availability of their second tranche of funding for enterprises in the city and county. They are calling for applications from businesses and community enterprises in Cork who need funding to expand, develop or... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS