10 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The announcement by Diageo of an increase in the price of its beers, including Guinness, is further bad news for the pub trade already grappling with soaring energy costs, inflation and the general increase in the cost of doing business, says the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI). Publicans... Read More
10 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie In these days of hearing about branch closures it’s unusual to hear of an upgrade Bank of Ireland has announced plans to invest €11.5m million across its nationwide branch network in 2023, with the Fermoy branch in Co Cork part of the upgrade plans. The planned network investments... Read More
10 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie On January 27th 2023 the Cork Person(s) of the Year for 2022 will be announced at the 30th Gala Awards Lunch at the Rochestown Park Hotel In addition to the announcement of the overall Cork Person(s) of the Year, from a strong lineup of monthly winners, the awards... Read More
10 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork headquartered ‘SuperValu’ brand invests in sustainability initiatives This week SuperValu announced that €7.9 million has been invested in sustainability initiatives across its stores over the past six months. Of this €7.9 million, some €4.1 million was drawn down from a major sustainability fund announced by Musgrave in... Read More
8 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The first Network Cork event of 2023 explores the topic of ‘Owning the Room’ with UCC’s Dr Jean van Sinderen-Law. Network Cork will host its first event of 2023 on Wednesday 11th January with Dr Jean van Sinderen-Law announced as the keynote speaker for this year’s launch event,... Read More
7 January 2023 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie High speed connectivity on the way as 2,100 premises in North Cork see build works commence – Areas include Ballydesmond, Boherbue, Kiskeam, Knocknagree, Cullen, Millstreet, and Ballydaly National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) has... Read More
5 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Socialist Party TD Mick Barry said this morning that the Government must extend cost of living supports past the planned February cutoff point. His comments came in the wake of the announcement that the State recorded a Budget surplus of €5bn for last year – five times greater... Read More
4 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited has today announced that Sean O’Brien has been elected as its new Chairman Mr. O’Brien succeeds Mr. John O’Gorman who served as Chairman of the Society for the past five years and recently stepped down having served the maximum term permitted on the Dairygold... Read More
4 January 2023 By Roger Kennedy roger@TheCork.ie Website design, at its core, really is a work of art. It gives users an experience, but at the end of the day, it’s also important to make sure that it serves a purpose. If you don’t make sure that your site is easy to navigate, interesting and... Read More
4 January 2023 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Ballymaloe Foods has entered a deal with Marks & Spencer to supply all of its stores in the Republic of Ireland with Ballymaloe Relish. This is the first time Ballymaloe Relish is available at retail giant M&S, along with another favourite from the Ballymaloe Foods range – Ballymaloe... Read More
30 December 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Dell Technologies team in Cork, Limerick and Cherrywood has this year donated over 29,500 hours to a variety of community initiatives which has helped to generate over €448,000 in aid of charity. Over the course of the year, the team at Dell Technologies Cork has volunteered their... Read More
28 December 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork based ‘Musgrave’, Ireland’s leading food retail, wholesale and foodservice company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Keating as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director with effect from 9 January 2023. Andrew is a proven CFO with considerable board-level experience, having previously held senior management positions... Read More
