3 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Mileage fraud is undermining confidence in our second hand car market and consumers need more protection from cars that have been tampered with Speaking at a workshop on the second hand car market in the European Parliament yesterday, Ireland South MEP and member of the EU transport... Read More
3 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Booming corporation tax receipts must be deployed for long term benefit – McGrath Fianna Fáil Finance spokesperson Michael McGrath (based in Carrigaline, Co Cork) has said a long term strategic approach is needed in how the State uses the unexpectedly strong corporation tax receipts received to date... Read More
3 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Derval O’Rourke, former Olympic athlete, will today launch the Irish Guide Dogs for the blind Christmas campaign for 2015. Derval will attend a photocall at the Guide Dogs Headquarters on the Model Farm Road around lunchtime. The athlete will be joined by her own trusty labradoodle ‘Berlino’... Read More
3 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has questioned the Irish government’s commitment to Irish Culture and the Arts with the impending cuts laid out by the coalition to the sector. The Ireland South MEP said, “The Arts council is the national agency for funding, developing and promoting the... Read More
3 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Speaking in the Dáil last vening, Sinn Féin TD for Cork North Central Jonathan O’Brien said that the government have a real opportunity to address homelessness in Ireland and are failing to do anything of substance. Deputy O’Brien said: “This Labour and Fine Gael Government, and the previous... Read More
2 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Professional services and consulting firm, Deloitte, and the Department of Accounting, Finance & Information Systems at University College Cork, have collaborated for an exciting partnership that saw them officially launch the Deloitte Innovation Zone@UCC on Tuesday 1st December. The Deloitte Innovation Zone@UCC will be used to facilitate an... Read More
2 December 2015, Wednesday By Tom Collins tom @TheCork.ie Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has called for the enactment of local bye-laws to regulate the operating times of waste collection companies which, he said, have been causing a nuisance in many estates around the city with some reports of collection trucks arriving as early... Read More
1 December 2015 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork City Council are looking for proposal from creative/entrepreneurial/cultural individuals or groups to lease the Lord Mayors Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork as a cultural or creative space for a defined period. The individuals/groups proposals should seek to “animate” the pavillion and “engage” with the public and the park... Read More
1 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The greatest Christmas classic of all time, ‘A Christmas Carol’, comes to life this December in a sparkling production at the Cork Arts Theatre. Dickens’ tale of the power of the Christmas spirit to soften even the hardest of hearts has been adapted and directed by renowned... Read More
1 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Airport has launched its new website. The new site features a map on the homepage showing available destinations prominently. It replaces a site that has been in use since 2010, the design approach focused on creating a website that with clean modern design (i.e. plenty of whitespace) and... Read More
1 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Chamber today welcomes GE Healthcare’s announcement of a $40 million investment in its manufacturing facility in Carrigtwohill, East Cork, which will see the site’s manufacturing capacity double and the creation of 140 new jobs in medical manufacturing. Reacting to the announcement this morning, Barrie O’Connell, President... Read More
1 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Survey reveals lack of listening at management level negatively impacts workers • 60% of workers say managers do not care, are not interested or do not understand when they are distressed at work • More than a third (36%) cite lack of support and understanding from managers as... Read More
