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4 September 2017, 10pm By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie At a special meeting of Cork County Council, elected members were briefed in full on the current status of the ongoing deliberations on the proposed alteration of the boundary of Cork City Council. The 2pm meeting was held ‘in committee’, meaing that no media or public were...
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4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurley has welcomed the announcements of six projects from Cork County Council shortlisted for the Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards 2017. The projects shortlisted are: the Living Space Project Mallow; www.YourCouncil.ie; Dunmanway Community Garden; the Physicality...
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2 September 2017, 11am By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A man in his 80s has died, and a man in his 40s has been injured, in a house fire in Buttevant, Co. Cork. Gardaí and fire services attended the scene of a house fire at Knockbarry Cottages, at approximately 9.30pm last night. The fire was brought...
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2 September 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin’s annual Summer School returns to the Mills Inn in Bháile Mhúirne, Co Cork on Friday and Saturday the 8th and 9th of September 2017. This year’s event boasts an impressive line-up including broadcaster Vincent Browne, journalist and filmmaker Paul Mason, ‘Kill All Normies’ author Angela Nagle,...
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31 August 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North – West Aindrias Moynihan has called on the Department of Rural and Community Development to restore funding to the Local Improvement Scheme to €5m and extend the expressions of interest deadline. “The Local Improvement Scheme saw the State providing funds to local authorities to...
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29 August 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar T.D, announced the landmark €5 Billion Good Cause figure at a special Lotto draw to mark the National Lottery’s 30th birthday in RTE recently. He said the Good Cause fund has made a crucial contribution to life in communities all across Ireland over the...
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29 August 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork North Central Solidarity TD Mick Barry this morning expressed strong opposition to Iarnrod Eireann’s suggestion that shutting down 4 routes might be an option and called instead for the reversal of state funding cutbacks which he said had crippled the company. In a submission to the Labour...
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27 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie When is Culture Night? 22nd September This year’s Cork County Culture Night Ambassador is writer and diarist, Alice Carey. Alice divides her life between Manhattan, where she was born and bred, and West Cork, where she and her husband, Geoffrey Knox, bought and renovated a house some years ago. Alice feels...
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24 August 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Commercial vacancy rates in Co Cork have increased from 11.6% to 11.5% since July 2016, while the national commercial vacancy rate increased from 13.1% in Q2 2016 to 13.5% in Q2 2017, according to new research published by GeoDirectory and DKM Economic Consultants. 28,784 of the 212,717 commercial...
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24 August 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Spokesperson on Health in the Seanad, Cork North Central, Senator Colm Burke has expressed concern that one in four staff now employed by the HSE occupies an Administration or Managerial role. The total number of Administration/Managerial staff has increased from 15,112 in December 2014 to 17,194...
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22 August 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork based Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has said the government “continues to pile failure on upon failure” when it comes to the housing crisis. The Ireland South MEP was speaking in the wake of two reports this week which revealed that rent prices have leapt yet...
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22 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Yesterday, in an intelligence-led operation, Revenue officers in Cork carried out a search under warrant of private premises in “a town in North Cork” which the agency did not name specifically, and seized 18 litres of suspected counterfeit vodka. They were assisted in the operation by local...
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