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8 June 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Midsummer Festival will take place across 10 days from 16-25 June, with this year’s festival features over 400 artists. More than 50,000 people are expected to attend Cork’s largest annual multi-disciplinary arts festival, with a choice of 51 events in 40 venues and city wide locations. For...
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8 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Des Cahill, recognised family businesses at last night’s ‘Lord Mayor of Cork’s Family Business Awards’ ceremony held in City Hall. Two award recipients came from The English Market which is famous for family businesses being passed down through generations. On the night Pat O...
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7 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Civic Trust as organisers of ‘The Spirit of Cork Award’ has announced that it will bestow the 2017 award on Dr Paul Colton, the Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. The Chairman of Cork Civic Trust, Michael Mulcahy, said: “Cork Civic Trust, as...
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7 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Related link: AUDIO FEATURE: TheCork.ie travelled all of the Cork section of the Wild Atlantic Way, listen here It is widely agreed in Cork tourism circles that the Wild Atlantic Way is the best thing since sliced bread. It is a marketed driving route stretching from Cork to Donegal....
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6 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cope Foundation has launched its flagship fundraising campaign that encourages people across Cork to plant Flowers of Hope seeds to help children and adults with an intellectual disability or autism to “grow, blossom and fulfil their own unique potential”. Jonathan Healy, Presenter with Newstalk, and more...
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8 June 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork based Musgrave Group – based off Airport Hill and on the Tramore Road – have announced the appointment of Chris Pilling as Non-Executive Director on the board of Musgrave Group plc. Chris succeeds Brian Flanagan, a Non-Executive Director since 2013. Chris Pilling has a background in retail...
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6 June 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sustainability Report 2016 – “Brewing a Better World” Heineken Ireland – which has its head office at Lady’s Well Brewery, Cork City – today published its 2016 Sustainability Report. It provides an update on the progress made in meeting the firm’s ambitious sustainability targets as part of its...
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6 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada is urging people to support the Clonakilty Youth Centre fundraising campaign. The Ireland South MEP made the call after meeting with outgoing Clonakilty Mayor Anthony McDermott who showed her and County Councillor Paul Hayes the site for the centre and plans...
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6 June 2017, Tuesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Clonakilty’s new voluntary, directly-elected, non-political, community Mayor will be inaugurated this Thursday evening 8th June at 8pm at a public ceremony at Asna Square, Clonakilty, Co Cork. Outgoing Mayor Anthony McDermott will be stepping down after his busy year and the chain of office will be...
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6 June 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie This month marks the 60th year since the formation of the Seandun Macra na Feirme Region. To mark the occassion, former Seandun Chairperson and historian Jim Fitzgerald, Knockraha, gives a recount of the formation of the Seandun Macra region. In 1944, Steven Cullinane and a group of other...
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5 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has met with Councillor Paul Hayes and the Abbeymahon Conservation Group to discuss possible avenues of funding to protect the townland’s historic Cistercian Abbey. The Ireland South MEP said that the Abbey was a unique part of the area’s history and...
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5 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Ireland’s Most Popular Visitor Attractions Revealed A year of strong growth reflected as Fáilte Ireland publishes list of the nation’s best performing tourism attractions in 2016 Fáilte Ireland, today, have published their annual list of Ireland’s top visitor attractions with most attractions registering strong growth reflecting the strong...
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