29 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie What: 42nd Cork Folk Festival When: 29th Sept-3rd October 2021 Organisers are delighted to announce a return to live folk music at the 42nd Cork Folk Festival, happening across Cork city from Wednesday 29th September to Sunday 3rd October 2021. “The festival will celebrate the music of Cork... Read More
27 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The ‘Today’ Show returns for its 10th season on RTÉ One TV today at 3.30pm. The programme is broadcast from the Father Matthew Quay studios of RTE, in Cork City Maura Derrane, Daithí O Sé and Emer O’Neill are back with the 10th season of the show with... Read More
27 September 2021, Monday By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Racecourse will host a competitive eight-race card on Tuesday afternoon. The action at the track gets underway at 1.15pm and concludes at 5.10pm. The ground at Cork is currently Yielding, Good to Yielding in places and there are showers forecast throughout racing. We have previewed the... Read More
27 September 2021 By Roger Jones roger@TheCork.ie With so much disruption to the horse racing calendar, not only in Ireland but across the planet, it is great to look ahead to some of the exciting meetings this winter and beyond. Leopardstown Christmas Festival One of the major horse racing events taking place is the Leopardstown... Read More
26 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie This year’s Lord Mayor’s Community & Heritage Concert, a compilation of footage from the past decade’s concerts at City Hall, will take place virtually on Saturday, October 2. Exploring the themes of movies and musicals, it will feature talented community music groups such as the Barrack Street Band,... Read More
24 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Rembrandt exhibition is now in place and will remain in Cork City until January 2022 A new exhibition at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery invites visitors to encounter the astonishing work of Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt in Print presents 50 of the Dutch Master’s finest works from the Ashmolean... Read More
24 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Shopinireland.ie is a rapidly growing e-commerce business, starting out as a Facebook page set up last October. Within a week huge traffic to the page confirmed a website was urgently required. Today it has almost 1,000 Irish independent businesses registered to sell online with over 30,000 products listed... Read More
23 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Fota Wildlife Park have announced the birth of five new Northern cheetah cubs (Acinonyx j. soemmeringii) to mother Grainne and father Archie. The Northern cheetah subspecies is considered Endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as there are less than 800 left in the wild. A total of... Read More
23 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie CarrigAlive There was live music in abundance on the new bandstand in the Community Park, Carrigaline from 4.00pm to 8.00pm on Culture Night. Trad group Torcán opened the proceedings followed by Richard O’Farrell with Éist, then Danny Dineen with Aos Dána and Umoja, a Carrigaline based West African... Read More
23 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Central Library, Grand Parade and Hollyhill Library in Knocknaheeny are to be the venues once again for two exhibitions of the top 21 winning paintings from the 2020 and 2019 Texaco Children’s Art Competitions respectively. Set to run simultaneously, both exhibitions will open to the public on Friday,... Read More
23 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Walking stick is expected to fetch £10,000 (€11,700 approx) at a Belfast auction – Irish state should purchase it says Fine Gael Cork Senator A walking stick belonging to Michael Collins and documents linked to the political leader must be acquired by the State given their historical significance, a... Read More
23 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Today after 76 weeks of closure, Cork’s 650 seat Everyman Theatre will finally reopen to live audiences. Today after 76 weeks of closure, Cork’s Everyman Theatre will finally reopen to live audiences. Sophie Motley, Artistic Director said It’s been a privilege to watch MacCurtain street prepare, welcome people... Read More