11 October 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Friday, October 14th is deadline day for submission of applications for Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) competition, where Cork’s best and brightest young business people will have the opportunity to scoop their share of the €150,000 investment fund from the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs). This is the third... Read More
7 October 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today two schools in Cork will receive a visitor from the White House today. Leah Katz Hernandez will visit St Columbas GNS and Bishopstown Community School. Leah works as the ROTUS in the West Wing of the White House. Leah is the first Deaf sign language user... Read More
7 October 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie University College Cork (UCC) has become the first University to be named The Sunday Times University of the Year for two consecutive years in the 15-year history of the award. According to the Sunday Times, UCC’s success is underpinned by making teaching as much of a priority... Read More
6 October 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The national housing charity Threshold, will launch a report outlining the achievements of its Cork Tenancy Protection Service at 11am on Friday, October 7th in the Morgan Suite of the Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Cork City. The report will outline the results of Threshold’s Cork Tenancy Protection... Read More
3 October 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Following a dramatic surge in house prices during the summer, asking prices in Q3 paused for breath, rising by a modest amount according to the latest house price report from MyHome.ie The mix-adjusted price on newly listed properties nationally rose by 0.4% during the quarter while prices in... Read More
30 September 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy was in Denmark recently, where he met the Tourism Ireland team in Copenhagen. Minister Murphy was briefed on Tourism Ireland’s extensive promotional programme, which is in full swing right now, to boost tourism from the Nordic Region to the island of Ireland... Read More
30 September 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has launched a new programme of Chinese language education at Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers. Liadh is a member of the European Parliament Delegation to the People’s Republic of China. Speaking to staff and students at Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers this morning, Liadh Ní Riada... Read More
29 September 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Members of Seandun Macra travelled as a group for an active social night out at Awesome Walls in Cork last Thursday night September 29th where they went wall-climbing. With Macra members from all corners of Seandun ranging from Kinsale to Knockraha and everywhere in between it was... Read More
28 September 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie In Warsaw today Ireland’s Minister for European Affairs, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Dara Murphy T.D. delivered a public lecture on “The European Union in challenging times: the Irish Perspective” at the Polish Institute for International Affairs(PISM). In his address, the Minister spoke of the... Read More
28 September 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork have welcomed the decision of Cork City Council to introduce car-free hours on St. Patrick’s Street. Speaking this morning, Oliver Moran, the Green Party representative in Cork North central said: “The car-free movement is based on the idea of returning to a city... Read More
28 September 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Influential London-based business leaders attended an inaugural London Dinner, hosted by Cork Chamber of Commerce yesterday evening in the Bloomsbury Hotel, London where they discovered the unique and exciting opportunities that the Cork region offers investors and their employees. This invitation-only event being hosted as part of... Read More
