31 July 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Amarenco, the Cork-based independent renewable energy power company, through its investment platform Infram Energy has reached financial close of the final tranche of a total of €123 million in long term financing facilities for its operational solar asset portfolio, mixing both brownfield and greenfield projects. Led by Amarenco... Read More
30 July 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Port of Cork Company Turnover in 2018 amounted to €35.4 million, an increase of €3.9 million from €31.5 million in 2017. The combined traffic of both the Ports of Cork and Bantry increased to 10.66 million tonnes in 2018 up from 10.3 million tonnes in 2017, an... Read More
22 July 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie South of Ireland-based potential students can explore the fastest pathway to a professional accounting career through the Diploma For Accounting Technicians at an upcoming open day in Cork. The Accounting Technicians Ireland (ATI’s) qualification, offered full or part-time, is open to the countless number of people who have... Read More
17 July 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection in conjunction with Springboard Training Providers namely CIT, UCC, Innopharmalabs is hosting a Training Event in the Department’s Intreo Centre at Abbey Court House, George’s Quay, Cork City on Thursday 25th July 2019. The Springboard + upskilling programmes are aligned... Read More
1 July 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork, 19 June 2019: A number of food producers in West and South Cork have benefited from a LEADER initiative that provides up to €200,000 in funding for artisan food companies and food start-ups. Managed by SECAD and supported by Cork County Council, the programme has invested €300,000... Read More
30 June 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork Airport has become the proud sponsor the Outside Broadcast Unit and three new 100% electric E Golfs. Not for a Cork radio station, but for a Waterford one! as the Airport seeks to attract passengers from elsewhere in Munster. Kevin Cullinane, Head of Communications Cork Airport with... Read More
27 June 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork’s newest events and marketing company, Eventi Management, launched in St. Peter’s on North Main to an excited audience on Thursday 27thJune. This new endeavour is the brainchild of two of Cork’s well-known go-getters, Sinéad Dunphy and Lawrence Owens and comes at a time when Cork, being a... Read More
23 June 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Three Boots pharmacies in Cork now offering a Travel Vaccination Service The service provides more convenient access to travel vaccinations for customers across Cork The Travel Vaccination Service is now available in Boots Half Moon Street, Boots Douglas Court Shopping Centre and Boots Mahon Point Shopping Centre. Dublin,... Read More
22 June 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Electric Ireland has chosen Abtran, the leading Irish business process management company, as their continuing partner in the delivery of customer service solutions to its 1.2 million residential and business customers nationwide. An Tánaiste, Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, attended Abtran’s headquarters in Cork... Read More
18 June 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie 11 County Cork stores were honoured for achieving outstanding excellence in retail at the recent prestigious XL Retailing Standard Awards, which attracted retailers from all over Ireland to the Citywest Hotel in Saggart, Co. Dublin, for the ceremony run by BWG Foods, owners and operators of the XL... Read More
12 June 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD for Cork South-West, Margaret Murphy O’Mahony has welcomed the €1,270,000 allocated to Cork IT to support apprenticeship programmes but has said that more needs to be done to entice and encourage young people, and particularly women, to take up apprenticeships. She explained, “Cork IT will... Read More
