10 November 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Council’s Arts Service brings music to County Schools during lockdown. The latest project in ‘Tuning Up’, Cork County Council’s Music in Schools Programme, will see Ensemble Dagda, visit six primary and secondary schools, to give virtual performances in the classroom. Developed by Cork County Council, ‘Tuning... Read More
9 November 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The 65th annual Cork International Film Festival kicked off on Sunday 8th November with the 65th Anniversary Gala, the Irish premiere of The Racer, with the film available nationwide online at corkfilmfest.org through to 15th November. The 2020 programme features 50 features including 4 world premieres, extensive shorts... Read More
9 November 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Ballymaloe Foods has partnered with the franchise healthy food outlet ‘Freshly Chopped’ to create a limited edition ‘Mozza Relish Choppito’, which features Ballymaloe Foods Original Relish as a dressing. The ‘Mozza-Relish Choppito’ is a healthy burrito which is available in 34 stores nationwide around Ireland and also in... Read More
8 November 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie In real life the Sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, they were made up of Dutchmen, Algerians and Ottoman Turks. The attack was the largest... Read More
6 November 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie It has been popular since the advent of writing for the rich and famous to have buildings named after them. Well, now an opportunity has arisen for those of us who are – shall we say – less affluent. You can ‘sponsor a seat’ in Cork City’s Everyman... Read More
6 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Three Cork students have won top prizes in this year’s 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. All were winners of Special Merit Awards for artworks that Final Adjudicator, Professor Declan McGonagle said: “were imaginative and displayed high levels of skill”. They were Liam O’Mara (age 6), a pupil at... Read More
5 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley has welcomed the announcement of Fastnet Film Festival’s new ‘Puttnam Award’, a €20,000 short film award in honour of David and Patsy Puttnam. The winning project will be filmed on the Cork section of the Wild Atlantic Way... Read More
5 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Four West Cork students were amongst eight from the county to have won top prizes in this year’s 66th Texaco Children’s Art Competition. In the 9-11 years age category, Edie Collins (11), a pupil at Ballinspittle National School, Kinsale, won third prize for a work entitled ‘Billie Eilish... Read More
4 November 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Whiddy Island is an island near the head of Bantry Bay, West Cork, Ireland. It is about 5.6 km long and 2.4 km wide. The island is noted for its oil terminal facilities – and the related Whiddy Island Disaster of 1979 which involved a ship called the... Read More
1 November 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Cork Person of the Year – now in its 28th year – is a much-loved institution Leeside. There is a monthly winner, one of whom goes on he be the overall annual winner, however this coming January the Cork Person of the Year Awards scheme will do... Read More
29 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie
28 October 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie If you drive on the Southside of Cork you will recognise this building… …but where is it? and what business is part of? It’s located just North of the N40 South Ring Road. Heading in a Westerly Direction (let’s imagine towards Wilton) you whizz along the flyover which... Read More