6 May 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North Central Pádraig O’Sullivan has welcomed the announcement of an additional €100,000 in funding for the Cork Life Centre. This funding is in addition to the €77,500 which comes from the Department of Education annually. Deputy Pádraig O’Sullivan commented, “This is great news... Read More
5 May 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork ARC Cancer Support House appoints General Manager to strengthen supports available to patients and their families The Board of Cork ARC Cancer Support House are pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Catriona O’Mahony as General Manager of the Cork charity. Catriona has worked with Cork ARC... Read More
3 May 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie New information provided to Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Michael Moynihan, show that there is a backlog of 4,700 passport applications in Cork. 3,900 are for renewals with 800 first time applications. Deputy Moynihan commented, “The challenge of clearing this backlog will be significant and I... Read More
2 May 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A newly established Patient Advocacy Service is offering support to people in the Cork area who want to make a complaint about the care they have received in a public hospital. The Patient Advocacy Service provides free, independent and confidential information and support to people making a formal... Read More
1 May 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie At their AGM which took place online, Engineers Ireland – Cork Branch, elected Valerie Fenton as Chair for 2021/2022. As just the third female Chair in the distinguished 80 year history of the Engineers Ireland Cork Region Committee, Valerie said that she is “looking forward to promoting greater... Read More
1 May 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has recently appointed Lagan Asphalt Ltd., for the Cork County Road Resurfacing Contract 2021. Valued at €1,600,000, this is the first in a number of road resurfacing contracts that Cork County Council will procure this year. The resurfacing contract incorporates 13 sites extending to 10km... Read More
27 April 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The incoming chairperson for the next year is Valerie Fenton from Cork City Council Engineer’s Ireland (Cork Region) will hold their Annual General Meeting this evening at 7pm, online. Outgoing Chair, Ronan Keane, looked back at a strange year, “though in spite of everything we’ve had a very... Read More
26 April 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie it@cork will host TechFest 2021, which will take place virtually from 25th to 27th May 2021. The 3-day technology festival will include speakers from around the globe, interactive panel discussions, technical workshops and one-to-one networking opportunities. Marcus Weldon, former President of Bell Labs and former Corporate Chief Technology... Read More
22 April 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie “On this day ‘Earth Day’ it was devastating to see the destruction of trees and shrubs that birds were nesting in yesterday being chopped down and destroyed at Cushing Road and Tannery Gardens, Farranferris, Cork. Only recently, we applauded the good news that 500 trees were planted in... Read More
20 April 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Tomorrow, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Joe Kavanagh, will launch a Bursary Scheme for the North Monastery Secondary School. The bursaries are supported by “a past pupil of the school” (name not yet public) through the Boston, Mass based Irish Education Foundation. The initiative will provide financial... Read More
18 April 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Irish Water, working in partnership with Cork City Council, will begin site investigation works next week ahead of three planned strategic water supply upgrade projects, which will commence in the coming months and are required to safeguard water supply to the City. The site investigation works are required... Read More
16 April 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie 226 students honoured by Cork ETB at the first ‘Virtual’ Awards Ceremony for Achieving Excellence in the 2020 Leaving Certificate Examinations Taoiseach Micheál Martin, T.D., had glowing tributes for 226 Cork ETB students who were this evening honoured for displaying academic excellence in their Leaving Certificate and Leaving... Read More