21 March 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork City Council with Co Sponsors Maxi Zoo are proud to announce that the 2nd annual Dog Fouling awareness campaign begins this week. The launch will take place today in the Concert Hall, City Hall at 2pm. The initiative aims to improve awareness of the problem that indiscriminate... Read More
20 March 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork based Minister of State for European Affairs, Dara Murphy TD, has been visiting Spain, as part of a ‘Promote Ireland’ programme around St Patrick’s Day. The minister’s busy schedule included a breakfast meeting with leading Spanish tour operators, organised by Tourism Ireland. Spain is an important market... Read More
19 March 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Early Years educators are invited to attend a meeting of the SIPTU ‘Big Start’ campaign for increased investment in the Early Years sector in Connolly Hall, Lapps Quay, Cork, on Monday, 20th March, at 7.00 p.m. The meeting will focus on the lack of State funding for the... Read More
18 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork City WFC confirm the signing of Senior Irish International Clare Shine for the 2017 season The Cork native returns to the club having played in the debut season of the Continental Tyres Women’s National League and previously having played at local level for Douglas Hall. In 2013... Read More
17 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork City WFC begin their 2017 campaign with a visit to 2016 Continental Tyres Women’s National League Champions Shelbourne LFC this Saturday 18th of March at 7.00pm at the Morton Stadium. After a strong finish to the 2016 season with two wins from the last three games City... Read More
17 March 207 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Organised by Cork City Council, the Cork St Patrick’s Festival will take place this weekend from Friday March 17- Sunday March 19th. Cork City will be a carnival of colour and pageantry as the city celebrates our national festival in style. A series of events will take place... Read More
17 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie In his sermon at the annual Civic Service and Festival Eucharist for St Patrick’s Day in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, the Bishop, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, spoke about the place of religion in Irish society in the wake of the harrowing accounts about Mother and... Read More
17 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie League of Ireland Premier Division Today 5pm @ Tallaght Stadium Cork City FC go into tonights game with four wins from four league games, thanks to a 2-1 win over Sligo Rovers at Turner’s Cross on Monday night. The home side, meanwhile, have two wins and two defeats... Read More
17 March 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Representatives of Cork County Council, who are in New York for the St Patrick’s Day period, met with senior executives from Tourism Ireland in New York yesterday (16 March). They were briefed on Tourism Ireland’s extensive promotional programme for 2017, which is in full swing right now. Tourism... Read More
17 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie St Patrick has long been associated with snakes and shamrocks but the fact that he had a wife has largely been confined to the annals of history according to a folklorist from University College Cork. In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is... Read More
16 March 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Don’t kill geese that lay golden eggs – Clunes plea to tourism providers in Cork Ireland South MEP pleads with tourism providers in Cork not to increase prices ahead of the tourist season which kicks off on St Patrick’s Day Ireland South MEP and member of the EU... Read More
16 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Des Cahill, will today attend the Presidential Reception in the White House to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, at the invitation of the President of the United States, Donald Trump. He spoke of the opportunity that this visit brings to promote Cork, Ireland’s... Read More