4 February 2018, Sunday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie County Cork wins Best Community-Based Initiative at the 2018 All-Ireland Community and Council Awards. In the 2018 All Ireland Community and Council Awards – held in Croke Park, Dublin, last evening – the County of Cork was awarded Best Community-Based Initiative with regard to ‘Centenary Commemorations in... Read More
4 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork city and county feature prominently in a new Angling catches report for 2017. In Cork city, The Lough and Cork Harbour are highlighted in the Irish Specimen Fish Committee Report 2017, which was published this week. The largest Carp recorded in Ireland last year was caught at... Read More
3 February 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County Council will host a Road Safety Event on Sunday, February 4th from 9.30am to 4pm in the car park of Mitchelstown Leisure Centre. This is a free event with everyone welcome to attend. The RSA Road shuttle and roll over simulator will be on site enabling... Read More
3 February 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork North West TD, Aindrias Moynihan has said that he is worried that the number of lambs born in 2018 will drop putting further financial pressure on farmers and potentially increasing prices for consumers. Deputy Moynihan was commenting after a large number of local sheep farmers contacted him... Read More
31 January 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Minister Simon Coveney has welcomed the ‘Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan’ mortgage scheme unveiled by his colleague Eoghan Murphy. For the first time Cork – and indeed all Irish – families will be be able to know their payments for the entire lifetime of a mortgage because... Read More
29 January 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D. today announced that he has appointed Dan MacSweeney as Chair of An Bord Bia. Minister Creed said; “I am delighted to appoint Dan MacSweeney to the post of Chair of An Bord Bia. Dan is an outstanding... Read More
25 January 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie There will be significant improvements to pension outcomes for homemakers and carers in Cork City & County who were affected by rate band changes in 2012, a Fine Gael Cork North Central, Senator Colm Burke has said. The new Total Contributions Approach will calculate pensions based on all... Read More
24 January 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork County Council is delighted to announce that it has achieved Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSAS 18001) accreditation from the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI). As an organisation Health and Safety is one of the key priorities and Cork County Council is continually reviewing its systems... Read More
23 January 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork North West TD, Michael Moynihan has said that the Oireachtas must look at his party’s proposed Committee State Amendments to the Road Traffic Bill and should accept its recommendation to increase the number of penalty points awarded for drink driving rather than the proposed automatic disqualification. Deputy... Read More
23 January 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork North Central based Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson, Billy Kelleher TD has said that while the announcement of 2600 additional beds is welcome, the ability of the HSE and the Department of Health to deliver beds in the short term will be the measure of Minister Harris’s commitment... Read More
22 January 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Sod is turned at social housing development in Ballingeary Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurley has turned the sod on a new development of social housing at Cuan Barra, Kilmore, Ballingeary between the approved housing body Coiste Tithe Uibh Laoire Teo and Droumleigh Construction Limited.... Read More
21 January 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A capital city such as Dublin has many foreign Embassies. A secondary city such as Cork has many Consulates. A Consulate can be headed by: a Career Consul (A civil servant from the sending country) an Honorary Consul (A resident of the receiving country, who is usually involved... Read More
