13 December 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie “Today’s figures are a real nightmare before Christmas scenario…” said INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, commenting on the national ED figures With the highest number of patients on trolleys since the pandemic began, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called for bespoke plans to tackle overcrowding... Read More
13 December 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The Sexual Health Hubs’ free period product initiative was launched in Clonakilty today by TD Holly Cairns. The Sexual Health Hub project was first launched in September 2020 by the Sexual Health Centre, as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The hubs are now being expanded – in... Read More
13 December 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Atlantic Flight Training Academy, an Enterprise Ireland client company, headquartered next to Cork Airport, has announced the official opening of its new IAA approved, Aircraft Maintenance Hangar at its second Irish Pilot Training base, located at Waterford Airport. Since 1995 AFTA has trained 2,300 graduates who are employed... Read More
13 December 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie New sensors monitor indoor air quality, and virus risk, in buildings Eirdata has partnered with Airthings for Business. The partnership introduces innovative technology into Ireland that can calculate virus risk in the workplace or office. Limerick based Eirdata supplies accredited, wireless air quality sensors to remotely monitor and... Read More
13 December 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The agricultural sector has been left deprived of a dedicated correspondent from RTÉ for too long, a Cork Fine Gael Senator has said. Senator Tim Lombard, who lives South of Carrialine is Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Agriculture. Today he said, “The farming community has been left without... Read More
13 December 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Trigon Hotels has joined forces with businesses across Cork as part of their 12 Days of Christmas charity drive. Starting today the hotel group, which includes the Metropole Hotel and the Cork International Hotel will be giving away a series of prizes. In order to enter they are... Read More
13 December 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A three-bed apartment within walking distance of Cork city centre, which is likely to attract the attention of investors, will go to auction later this month. Number 5 Marybank, Douglas Street, will go to auction with Youbid.ie on December 16 next with an advised minimum value (AMV) of... Read More
12 December 2021, Sunday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The death has been announced of a former Cork Lord Mayor Toddy O’Sullivan 87-year-old Mr O’Sullivan of Lough Villas, The Lough – and formerly of Barrack Street – passed away peacefully this morning at home surrounded by his family. The well known Cork man had a long... Read More
12 December 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has officially signed up to the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan as it continues its efforts to make the county a place where pollinators can survive and thrive. The plan is an ambitious five-year roadmap, coordinated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre, which aims to make farmland,... Read More
11 December 2021, Saturday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The first phase of Cork’s newest park, which when fully completed will be six times the size of Fitzgerald’s Park, will open to the public on Monday. An official opening ceremony will take place in 2022. Just 2.5 kilometres from the city centre and adjacent to the... Read More
11 December 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie PHANTOMS & PHANTASIES presents all 23 of the visionary Irish artist’s works on paper in the collection, ranging from his studies for The Eve of St Agnes window to illustrations for Robert Graves’ “Star-Talk” and Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination. To preserve these delicate watercolours and ink drawings,... Read More
11 December 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A Walk-In Covid Vaccination Clinic will take place at Cork City Hall Moderna booster vaccine available for Healthcare workers over 30 and 50-69-year olds only On Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th December, a Moderna Walk-In clinic for booster vaccinations for 50–69-year-olds and Healthcare workers over 30 years old... Read More
