28 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Insomnia Coffee Company will open a new store in Mallow, Co Cork today. Located in William O’Brien Street, this is Insomnia’s seventh store to be open in Co Cork. Insomnia Coffee Company has become an iconic Irish brand and is well known to coffee lovers across the country... Read More
26 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Registration for new training programme for retail and hospitality businesses now open Following on from the launch of the Cork City Customer Service Charter, businesses across Cork City are now being encouraged to sign up for the training programme in a bid to see Cork become a city... Read More
23 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Cork Society were delighted to have Mr. Jim Woulfe, CEO of Dairygold as the keynote speaker on the morning of 22nd March 2019. Jim Woulfe is CEO of Dairygold, Ireland’s largest farmer owned Agri & Dairy Business employing 1,250 people and with a turnover of €1 billion... Read More
21 March 2019 By Byran Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Marymount University Hospital and Hospice one of the hundreds of organisations to benefit from Aldi’s Community Grants Programme Marymount University Hospital and Hospice is the latest organisation to benefit from Aldi’s Community Grants programme. Aldi’s Grange store staff have awarded Marymount University Hospital and Hospice a €500 grant... Read More
20 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie More than €4 million will be invested in a digital health project to bring a potentially lifesaving smart cardiac monitoring patch ‘SmartVista’ to life. As lead partner, Tyndall National Institute will work with international partners to develop the wearable biosensor technology for real-time wireless monitoring of remote patients.... Read More
19 March 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A welcome for the news that the planned upgrade of the Limerick – Cork route to motorway status is still included in Government plans has come from a leading mid-west businessman whose company, McHale Plant Sales of Birdhill, supplies construction equipment to the civil engineering sector. Michael McHale,... Read More
13 March 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie
11 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie AbbVie, the global biopharmaceutical company which has a manufacturing presence in Carrigtwohill, has been listed among the Best Large Workplaces in Ireland for the sixth successive year. The announcement was made at the Great Place to Work Awards in Dublin recently. AbbVie was listed as the No. 2... Read More
10 March 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Small and medium-sized companies squeezed by rising insurance premia Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Spokesperson on Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central) is warning that businesses are facing closure because they can no longer afford significantly increased insurance premiums. “Small businesses, farmers, marts and community organisations... Read More
8 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork company, NeighbourFood has been selected by the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Cork City to represent LEO Cork City at the 2019 National Enterprise Awards on Wednesday 29th May in the Mansion House, Dublin. NeighbourFood is the brainchild of successful Cork entrepreneur Jack Crotty and is an online... Read More
7 March 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Cork Branch of the Irish Hotels Federation were delighted to host their 2018 Employee of the Year Awards recently at the five star Castlemartyr Resort and it was Sean Devine of the River Lee Hotel who beat off stiff competition to win the overall award on the... Read More
6 March 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork tourism companies – including Pure Cork and the Celtic Cross Hotel in Rosscarbery – joined Tourism Ireland this week at the largest travel trade fair in the world, ITB in Berlin. Tourism Minister Brendan Griffin is lending his support to the 35 companies from Ireland who are... Read More