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23 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Tune in to Cork’s 93.1 LifeFM from Easter Sunday 27th March and go back 100 years to Easter 1916 and join us as the events of The Rising and of that fateful week unfold, performed as a modern day newscast. Each day during Easter week until the 4th...
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22 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Laura Harmon will hold the Cork launch of her Seanad campaign today. Laura Harmon is the former president of the Union of Students in Ireland and led a campaign in 2015 which registered 30,000 new voters ahead of the marriage referendum. Date: Tuesday, 22nd March 2016 Time:...
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15 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune has congratulated students from the Christian Brothers College Cork who have emerged as this year’s Irish national winners of the European Charlemagne Youth Prize. The Charlemagne Youth Prize is organised jointly by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation in...
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14 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Each year the Business Information Systems (BIS) programme in UCC invites students to showcase some of their creative work, and to express those sides of themselves less visible in their academic work, in an annual anthology publication. This year’s Anthology, the 18th edition, titled ‘Out of Self’, which...
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11 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has granted planning permission to Cork Education and Training Board (CETB) for the development of a three-school campus at Gortnaclohy, Carrigaline. This eagerly awaited development will include a state of the art Gaelcholáiste, Gaelscoil and SONAS Junior Primary School. The campus will accommodate over...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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