20 September 2021, Monday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The winner of the national Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2021 is Patrick Holloway, Crosshaven/Carrigaline, Co Cork. His story ‘The Paradox of Remembering ’ is the 24th fourth winner of the Award run by Waterford City & County Council’s Arts Office – with support from the Arts... Read More
20 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie ‘The Circus Factory‘ describes itself as community-based circus training and creation space. Its goal is to “promote circus and street arts, and provide training opportunities for all ages and levels. It’s located at Centre Park House, Centre Park Road, near the Marina, Cork City Promoters of a performance... Read More
19 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Accumulator Returns Huge Dividends A punter in County Cork pulled off a staggering coup on the Lotto this weekend and only needed a tiny investment to do it. The anonymous winner struck the small bet in their local BoyleSports shop, investing just €0.30 in their lucky numbers. However,... Read More
18 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie “Tomorrow is Sunday”, a photography exhibition by visual artist Miriam O’Connor has opened at Macroom Town Hall. The exhibition unpacks daily life on a County Cork farm and is part of Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Service annual programme in association with Macroom Area Visual Arts (MAVA).... Read More
17 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Every era has its humorists and their fictional characters. From the 1970’s onwards there were ‘Cha and Miah‘ who described themselves as daycent run if the mill Cork working men. Now, there is ‘Reggie from the Blackrock Road’ who is on the high society end of the income... Read More
17 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork have welcomed the recommendations of the report of the Night-time Economy Task Force for Cork City Cork City has been identified as a location to pilot a food activation plan integrated into the wider night-time offering of the city. This would focus on... Read More
17 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A computer-generated description on the press release for Ed Sheeran’s 2022 tour described the singer-songwriter as “A person with red hair”, but Ed Sheeran is so much more than that! His new tour is entitled “+ – = ÷ x Tour” which is to be pronounced as The... Read More
17 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Route: Malahide Castle > Cork > Kerry > Clare > Galway > Westmeath > Longford > Meath > Cavan > Louth > Antrim Over 1000km of Irish open roads, over €1,150,000 raised for Irish charities, celebrities and colourful Cannonballers in costume and the spectacular sight of 150 supercars... Read More
15 September 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Guinness recently confirmed that the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival will take place over the bank holiday weekend from 22nd – 25th October 2021. The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, one of the biggest and longest running events on the Irish music calendar, was cancelled in 2020 in line with... Read More
13 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie POSITIVE NEWS FOR HISTORY/TOURISM: The Wild Atlantic Way took what already exists, but packaged it and made it easier to follow, now the same has been done with a ‘Michael Collins trail’ A new trail has been launched in West Cork to guide people to sites in the... Read More
13 September 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie It was a busy week for Glanmire as we held our first in person meeting since before lockdown. It was great to be able to see our members in person. There was also a zoom option on the night also for anyone who couldn’t make the meeting in... Read More
13 September 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie ● World Premiere of UBUNTU: Local is Global ● Live Hip Hop Performance ● Featured on upcoming RTÉ ‘Change Makers’ Series ● Features Young People from Cork Migrant Centre and The Kabin Studio ● Free, Outdoors, and Open to the Public ● 19 September from 2-4pm As part... Read More