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11 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Councillor, John Paul O’Shea has welcomed changes to grants for domestic wells which will see increased funding available to people in County Cork. The changes have come into place and are effective since June 2020. Councillor O’Shea said, “Under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme, the Government...
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11 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Asthma Society of Ireland is warning the 31,972 people who have both asthma and hayfever in Cork to take precautions as pollen levels expected to rise this weekend. The Asthma Society has teamed up with Dyson Ireland to launch its Pollen Tracker on asthma.ie. The tracker provides...
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11 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Labour Cllr John Maher has said that the first infrastructural hurdles to be leapt by the new Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael-Green Coalition has fallen flat as “yet another delay” was confirmed for the Glanmire flood relief scheme. “We are sick to the back teeth of hearing procedural waffle on...
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11 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Rentokil warns of danger posed by wasps during Summer months Rentokil is warning the public to be vigilant regarding the dangers posed by wasps during the summer period. The company believes that as lockdown restrictions are lifted and people begin to spend more time outside, there is a...
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10 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie During the closure for the COVID-19 lockdown, the hard-working team at The Imperial Hotel, Cork, were busy putting the final preparations in place for the opening of a stylish new brasserie at the hotel: Thyme at Seventy Six on The Mall, which is officially now open. With the...
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10 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anytime Fitness, the world’s largest and fastest-growing 24-hour fitness franchise, opened its fourth club in Ireland on Monday July 6th in Ballincollig, Cork. This is the first new gym to open in Ireland since lockdown and has been designed around social distancing guidelines. This includes not just the...
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10 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The final commercial volumes of indigenous Irish gas flowed through the Inch terminal in County Cork last week as PSE Kinsale Energy Limited (KEL) ceased production after 42 years of service and almost two trillion cubic feet of natural gas – double the original reserve estimate. Ireland’s only...
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9 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A local Girl Guide successfully completed a virtual summit of Carrauntoohil – Ireland’s highest mountain – during lockdown Laura McSweeney (25) from Bandon, a graduate of University College Cork who is currently studying forensic science, had been considering climbing Carrauntoohil the past few years. She hadn’t got around...
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9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie It’s called ‘Statio Bene’ and draws together over forty artworks describing the traditions and historic views of Cork Harbour. The exhibition features artworks describing Cork’s global connectedness, its harbour and river, shipping and leisure, defence, and mobility of people. Addressing the maritime traditions of Cork and the south...
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10 July 2020, 8pm By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Baltimore RNLI were called out to a medical evacuation earlier this evening from East Skeam Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork. The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 5.25pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide medical assistance and evacuation...
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9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Council Library & Arts Service is proud to present two new Virtual Writing Collectives, developed to support networking, creative exchange and collaboration among writers across Cork County. The project is led and facilitated by Cork County Writer In Residence Matthew Geden. Beginning on July 29th and...
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9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Eoin McCuirc , Chair of Cork Simon Community and Siobhán O’Dowd, Co-ordinator of Ballyphehane Togher CDP have been Cork City’s Community Champions during Covid 19, a national programme co-ordinated by Irish Rural Link and The Wheel. They were part of the Government’s Community Call and Cork City Council’s...
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