top of page 28 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie REPUBLIC OF WORK, Cork’s leading business innovation campus, has partnered with Logitech to create Ireland’s first Smart Meeting rooms. Over €20,000 has been invested in REPUBLIC OF WORK’s four meeting rooms to offer users the latest technology available anywhere in the world. This includes; Logitech’s... Read More
top of page 27 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Green Party has said Cork should stand against imports of fracked US gas through the Port of Cork. Fracking involves extracting gas by injecting a mixture into the earth to split underground rocks and release gas. The process is linked to health and environmental... Read More
top of page 27 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The countdown to Christmas is well and truly on with the launch of the Lord Mayor’s 59th Gala Christmas Concert. Lord Mayor Cllr. John Sheehan and Lady Mayoress Aedamar Sheehan recently launched Cork’s favourite Christmas Concert, which will take place on Saturday 7 December in... Read More
top of page 26 October 2019, Saturday 1pm By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork is in full swing for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival weekend, which runs until Sunday (28th October) with more 1,000 musicians from 20 countries performing in 70 venues, and an incredible 95% of performances being staged for free! This afternoon, three amazing... Read More
top of page 26 October 2019, Saturday 1pm By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Representatives from the heritage group based on a tiny island off the coast of Cork, Bere Island Projects Group, were put through their paces as part of the judging for the finals of the National Lottery Good Causes Awards which take place in... Read More
top of page 26 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Eleven (11) top travel agents from the US are visiting Cork and Ireland this week – as guests of Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland. They’re all members of Virtuoso – an international network of luxury travel agencies – and they are visiting Ireland for the... Read More
top of page 26 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Carrigrohane Union of Parishes is excited to announce the start of renovation work on their building on Old Fort Road in Ballincollig. The building, empty for many years, will have a new lease of life as a community and parish centre. The Carraig Centre... Read More
top of page 25 October 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork North West TD, Aindrias Moynihan has questioned the Taoiseach on the commitment given by the Government that there would be a new secondary school in Ballincollig. Deputy Moynihan said it wasn’t good enough that parents are put through unnecessary stress each year making applications... Read More
top of page 25 October 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The new expanded Airtastic Entertainment Centre opens in Little Island today becoming “Cork’s largest leisure destination”, according to the backers. At a cost of €1.5m and creating up to 30 new jobs a Northern Ireland leisure firm opened its first site in the South in October... Read More
top of page 25 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Creagh House in Doneraile, Co Cork, was the venue for the October board meeting of Tourism Ireland, which took place yesterday (Thursday, 24 October). The board members took the opportunity to meet with representatives of the local tourism industry, to discuss overseas tourism this year... Read More
top of page 25 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County Council have delivered a newly refurbished and enhanced playground at Charleville Town Park which will be officially opened by Mr Patrick O’Donovan T.D, Minister of State at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, later this week. The... Read More
45,000 people will travel through Cork Airport this October Bank Holiday (#GuinnessCorkJazz) weekend
top of page 25 October 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Airport is preparing for one of its busiest weekends of the year, with over 45,000 expected to travel through Ireland’s fastest growing and most punctual airport this October Bank Holiday weekend. The busiest day for both arrivals and departures at the Airport will be Thursday,... Read More