13 June 2017, Tuesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Keep Cork Meeting 2017 is an annual opportunity for hotels and other tourism service providers in Cork to showcase their work to the corporate market. Five years on from the first Keep Cork Meeting event, Cork Convention Bureau expects to see a 25% increase in exhibitors... Read More
11 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Native American Choctaw and Irish cultures will come together on Sunday, June 18th for the Official Dedication of the ‘Kindred Spirits’ sculpture in Midleton, Co. Cork, which commemorates a donation made by the Choctaw people to Ireland during the Great Famine. The chief of the Choctaw Nation, Chief... Read More
10 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Get straight to the Point with Bus Éireann this summer An excuse for shopping has never been so easy, with Bus Éireann’s extended services direct to the Mahon Point shopping centre. Customers can travel to the front door for as little as €1.60 (single LeapCard fare) on... Read More
10 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie What: Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular Where: Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork Supported by: Cork City Council and Fáilte Ireland When: Saturday July 15 & Sunday July 16, 2017 Times: 12 – 8pm daily Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular will return to Dublin’s Merrion Square this July 7th – 9th and to Cork’s... Read More
9 June 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork City Council is pleased to announce the official opening of the €2 million Blackrock Harbour & Village Project by the Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Des Cahill at 3.30pm, Friday June 9. The completed work will enhance Blackrock’s unique character as an urban village within the city.... Read More
9 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Midsummer Festival is to hold Ireland’s largest ever maypole dance as part of a diverse and dynamic family-friendly programme of events for 2017. Taking place across 10 days from 16-25 June, this year’s festival is jam-packed with installations, dance, music, workshops and theatre with young children in... Read More
9 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Harbour Festival grows each year, and its flagship event Ocean to City – An Rás Mor has received a record breaking entry for the fourth year in a row. Over 200 boats and 600 participants from Ireland, U.S, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, are set to... Read More
8 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Every summer for the past 200 years, the Munster Agricultural Society has put on a very special show in Cork. A great family day out and Cork tradition, the Cork Summer Show, sponsored by Cork County Council, takes place on 17th and 18th June at the Showgrounds at Curraheen and this year it promises to... Read More
7 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Related link: AUDIO FEATURE: TheCork.ie travelled all of the Cork section of the Wild Atlantic Way, listen here It is widely agreed in Cork tourism circles that the Wild Atlantic Way is the best thing since sliced bread. It is a marketed driving route stretching from Cork to Donegal.... Read More
6 June 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie This month marks the 60th year since the formation of the Seandun Macra na Feirme Region. To mark the occassion, former Seandun Chairperson and historian Jim Fitzgerald, Knockraha, gives a recount of the formation of the Seandun Macra region. In 1944, Steven Cullinane and a group of other... Read More
5 June 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has met with Councillor Paul Hayes and the Abbeymahon Conservation Group to discuss possible avenues of funding to protect the townland’s historic Cistercian Abbey. The Ireland South MEP said that the Abbey was a unique part of the area’s history and... Read More
5 June 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Ireland’s Most Popular Visitor Attractions Revealed A year of strong growth reflected as Fáilte Ireland publishes list of the nation’s best performing tourism attractions in 2016 Fáilte Ireland, today, have published their annual list of Ireland’s top visitor attractions with most attractions registering strong growth reflecting the strong... Read More
