16 September 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie If you are aged from 18 to 35 and have an existing business or business idea with real commercial potential, then the IBYE 2018 competition is for you. The search is on to find Cork’s best and brightest young business people, with €150,000 up for grabs through the... Read More
13 September 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork based Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ni Riada has called for root and branch reform of the Irish education system. The Ireland South MEP was speaking at an event she organised in the European Parliament entitled Quality Education For All. The conference heard contributions from MEPs and... Read More
8 September 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie open eir today announced the winners of its ‘High Speed High Street’ National Ploughing Championship competition. This initiative showcases Irish SMEs using high speed broadband to promote their business online, to sell product and to engage in new market opportunities. The competition saw SMEs across the country entering to win a coveted... Read More
8 September 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The future is bright for 500 students of CSN – one of Ireland’s most renowned colleges of further education – as the class of 2017 celebrate their graduation today. Each emerging graduate will receive QQI awards from one and two-year courses, including art, design, sports, business, music, digital... Read More
7 September 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork has celebrated the success in University College Cork of Ecosia, the tree-planting internet search engine. The party is encouraging students starting the new academic year, as well as the general public, to continue to use the service. Ecosia is a search engine that... Read More
WEST CORK: Carbery Cheese & Atlantic Sea Salt feature in Keogh’s Farm Crisps new “Crinkle Cut” range
7 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Keogh’s Farm, “maker of Ireland’s finest hand-cooked on the farm crisps”, has added a new range to its potato product portfolio. Ploughed with deep ridges for even more flavour, “Keogh’s Crinkle Cut Crisps” are the first and only Irish owned, grown, cooked and flavoured crinkle cut crisps... Read More
5 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurley launched the West Cork Mobile Library from his home in Dunmanway last week. The new mobile library replaces a fourteen-year-old vehicle which served almost every locality in rural West Cork and ensures the continuity of this valuable, socially... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The International Association for Plant Biotechnology Congress 2018 (IAPB 2018) was officially launched at an event in University College Cork today. The President of the IAPB is Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich who is based in UCC. The congress will take place at the Dublin Convention Centre from 19th... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Institute of Technology, which incorporates CIT Cork School of Music, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design and the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI), will hold its Registration and Open Evenings for Continuing Education Programmes (Weekend & Evening Courses) from September 5th. For CIT, Continuing... Read More
1 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Carrigaline based Fine Gael Senator, Tim Lombard, has confirmed that some €3,959,700 in Government funding has been paid to help meet the back to school costs of 12,470 local families. The Back to School allowance is paid to parents to assist them in purchasing uniforms and footwear... Read More
29 August 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork based students are being offered the opportunity to kick start a new career in accountancy through a special course starting in September. The programme is fully funded, which means no costs to students, and also does not require CAO points to gain admission. The CPA Business and... Read More
27 August 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Donald Trump was the politician most spoken about in 5th and 6th class in primary schools across Ireland last year. The results of a survey carried out among Junior Entrepreneur Project participants showed that over 96% of teachers of the 5th and 6th class pupils involved said that... Read More