22 November 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has today approved an Annual Budget for 2022 of €372 million, an increase of €24 million on the budget for 2021. Chief Executive of Cork County Council, Tim Lucey, said, “Presenting Budget 2022 has required some difficult decisions and a fine balancing of priorities. When... Read More
22 November 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Fota Island Resort look beyond the present, and are planning on attracting overseas visitors back to Ireland in 2022 Helped by their talented friends from Cairde – a collaboration of very experienced dancers who take a modern approach to Irish dancing – the team at Fota Island Resort... Read More
22 November 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD for Cork East, Pat Buckley has called on all TDs to back a cross-party motion the party is bringing to the Dáil which would ensure the Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme meets the needs of survivors. The motion will be debated in the Dáil... Read More
22 November 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Ballymaloe Foods has teamed up with leading food chain Esquires Coffee to develop a Christmas offering. It follows a series of similar collaborations announced by Ballymaloe Foods this year as it joined forces with restaurants and food service outlets in Ireland. During 2021, Ballymaloe Foods worked with CoqBull... Read More
18 November 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Fota Wildlife Park have announced the names of the five Northern cheetah cubs who were born on the 10th of August as Roy, Sonia, Arlo, Mia, and Cora. Over 900 names were submitted as part of a public competition to find names for the five cubs to www.fotawildlife.ie.... Read More
15 November 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Education News With all the talk of COVID and serious matters it is nice to know that normal happier activities continue. The winners have been announced for Aldi’s Back to School Colouring Competition in aid of Barnardos, with two winners from Cork, and one from Dublin. In a... Read More
13 November 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD, has announced Ennis, Co. Clare as Ireland’s Tidiest Town for 2021. The announcement was made at a scaled-back event in the RDS with a small number of representatives present from this year’s entries to the Competition. The event... Read More
12 November 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie This year’s event will see 250 stall holders in total across two consecutive weekends in November Final preparations are underway for the anticipated return of the much-loved Ballymaloe Craft Fair. For the first time ever, this year’s Ballymaloe Craft Fair will take place across two consecutive weekends in... Read More
9 November 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Funding of up to €1m available for fisheries conservation Inland Fisheries Ireland, the state agency responsible for the protection and conservation of freshwater fish and habitats, is launching a funding call of up to €1 million today to support vital conservation projects around the country. Since 2016, more... Read More
9 November 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cycling in Ireland is “a boy’s thing” according to research conducted by the Green-Schools Programme of An Taisce as part of its #andshecycles Campaign. Speaking at the inaugural #andshecycles Ambassador Awards in Dublin on Thursday, November 4, researcher Robert Egan presented the findings of Green-Schools’ research into the... Read More
5 November 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the National Broadband Plan (NBP) on behalf of the Government, will host a pop-up information event in Tesco Superstore, Mill Road in Youghal today – Friday the 5th – and Saturday 6th of November, with the events taking place from 10... Read More
4 November 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the National Broadband Plan (NBP) on behalf of the Government, will host a pop-up information event at 2-4 Oliver Plunkett Place in Midleton on Friday the 5th and Saturday 6th of November, with the events taking place from 10 am to... Read More