2 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork’s rise as an entrepreneurial hub has been further boosted with the opening of Blackstone LaunchPad at UCC, one of only three locations in Ireland to host the entrepreneurship programme. According to Peter Finnegan, the newly-appointed director of Blackstone LaunchPad at UCC, “this is an important development not... Read More
2 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today Cork City Council will be using the hashtags #ourcouncilday and #ÁrLáSaChomhairle on Twitter to talk about some of the services they provide. The objective is to increase engagement with the public, who are the ‘customers’ and also the raison d’etre for the Council. This is the... Read More
2 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Local Enterprise Office (LEO) South Cork has launched a series of exciting events aimed at stimulating business growth and employment in Cork as part of Local Enterprise Week which will run from March 7th to 11th. LEO South Cork’s week-long schedule is part of the first nationally... Read More
2 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune – who is based in Cork – has said that the European Commission has just approved the acquisition of EMC by computer technology company Dell, under the EU Merger Regulation. Dell employs around 2,500 workers at sites in Limerick, Cork and Dublin. EMC... Read More
2 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Hotel rooms in Cork rose in price by 11% in 2015 according to the latest Hotels.com Hotel Price IndexTM (HPI). The average room rate paid for the full year of 2015 was €103 which is €15 below the national average of €118. The HPI is a regular... Read More
2 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A report on the Irish Cancer Society’s Counselling Service shows that many families impacted by a cancer diagnosis require emotional support in the months and years after a cancer diagnosis. While 48 per cent of those accessing the service did so within the same year of learning... Read More
1 march 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie BoyleSports reports further support for Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin to become the next Taoiseach. Having been available at 11/2 over the weekend continuous support has seen his odds slashed into 7/4 with Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny remaining favourite at 4/9 having drifted from 1/10. BoyleSports can also report... Read More
1 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Pallas Foods, have announced that their trade-only Inspiration Show, “a must-attend fixture in the Irish hospitality calendar”, will take place in The Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 8th and 9th March 2016. Now in its 6th year, the Pallas Foods Inspiration Show is... Read More
29 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie It has been said that engineering stimulates the mind – that children need to get their hands dirty; make things, dismantle things and fix things. This is why STEAM Education Ltd (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Applied Maths), has developed a new engineering programme for primary school... Read More
29 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland’s leading retail wholesaler Musgrave Group, food and beverage company Nestlé and leading consumer goods company Unilever, Cork are three of 30 companies participating in Ireland’s ‘Skills for Work Week’ from today, Monday 29th February to Friday 4th March 2016. Activities will take place in Musgrave Supervalu,... Read More
28 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Engineers Week, the annual campaign to inspire the next generation of engineers and excite students about the possibilities a career in engineering can offer, kick-offs in Cork today and runs until next Saturday (March 5th). The week-long series of activities across the country, now in its 10th year,... Read More
27 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie On Saturday 19th March next, a one day conference on helping people to find their ancestors will happen at the Clayton Hotel, Silversprings, Cork. Finding Your Ancestors Cork Genealogical Society & the Irish Genealogical Research Society are proud to announce a co-hosted one day conference in Cork. The... Read More
