10 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie In keeping with this year’s ‘1916 The Legacy’ theme for the Cork St Patrick’s Festival, Cork City Council has announced that the ‘seven signatories of the Irish Proclamation’ will lead this year’s parade in Cork city on March 17th. These ‘leaders of 1916’ will not only head-up... Read More
10 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork City W.F.C. welcome Castlebar Celtic to Bishopstown Stadium this Sunday 13th March at 2pm for the latest game in the Continental Tyres Women’s National League. Continental Tyres Football Festival will also be happening in Bishopstown Stadium this Sunday at 1.00pm where fun activities will take place before... Read More
9 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Talk show king and international star Graham Norton is coming to Cork to host a concert dedicated to laughter, celebration and song. It’s called “GRAHAM NORTON & FRIENDS – A CONCERT FOR HELEN – A concert dedicated to laughter, celebration and song” It will take place on... Read More
9 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A packed room of more than 80 HR professionals attended the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) Southern Region breakfast briefing at The Clarion Hotel Cork on Wednesday March 2nd, sponsored by Fastnet Recruitment & Search. The guest speaker Mary Connaughton, CIPD Ireland’s newly appointed Director,... Read More
9 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth beyan@TheCork.ie Over three hundred aspiring entrepreneurs from nine Universities in Vietnam, have entered a competition with the top prize of enterprise learning and mentoring at Ireland’s most successful incubation centre, The Rubicon Centre at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). The winners will benefit from a one-month experience on CIT’s... Read More
9 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cllr. Kenneth O’ Flynn (Fianna Fail) has today called on the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney to follow the French governments lead in banning supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food and instead donating them to charities or allowing them to be turned into animal food... Read More
9 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A symposium will be held at UCC this Thursday (March 10) to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cork-born writer Frank O’Connor’s death and celebrate his legacy. A major figure in both critical and creative contexts, Frank O’Connor was born Michael O’Donovan in Cork in 1903. He... Read More
9 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Learning For Life, the Diageo initiative that equips the long term unemployed with the skills needed to find work in the hospitality and tourism industry, was launched in the Metropole Hotel, Cork yesterday. This is the first year that Learning For Life is available in Cork and... Read More
9 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie There has been a record number of entrants for this year’s Local Enterprise Offices (Cork) CIT Prize for Innovation, which awards €10,000 in cash prizes to inventions and business ideas judged most creative, novel, innovative, and likely to succeed in the workplace. The prize forms part of Cork... Read More
9 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Institute of Technology’s Innovation Week 2016 is in full swing with a packed schedule of events and activities promoting entrepreneurship and innovation taking place across CIT’s five campus locations. Today’s (Wednesday March 9th) events include an Educators Seminar which will provide an insight into how best educators... Read More
8 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The opening film of the Cork French Film Festival, “Mustang”, introduced by the Festival’s Guest Curator, Julien Planté, certainly lived up to its multi award winning reputation. The capacity audience at the screening in The Gate Cinema enjoyed this Preview Screening, the first of many Preview Screenings and... Read More
7 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Irish organisations may have one or two women on their boards, but in 2016 the emphasis should be on equality and parity; a ‘token woman’ or two is not good enough, according to Professor Irene Lynch Fannon, School of Law, UCC. UCC’s School of Law will launch... Read More
