top of page 5 April 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Model and lifestyle guru to appear at IMEDEEN Skin Scanning event at Boots Half Moon Street Health and lifestyle guru Roz Purcell is set to make an appearance on April 12th from 4.30pm until 6pm at Boots Half Moon Street, Cork City for a Q&A... Read More
top of page 4 April 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Douglas Court Shopping Centre have announced that the RNLI Fundraising Branch Cork City has been named as the official ‘Douglas Court Shopping Centre Charity Partner of the Year’ for the coming year. Ten Cork charities were shortlisted to be in with an opportunity to win,... Read More
top of page 1 April 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Cork Senator and Leader of Seanad Éireann, Jerry Buttimer, has welcomed the announcement by Minister for Health, Simon Harris, of additional investment in services at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH). “My Fine Gael colleague Minister Harris, has announced a €1.1 million investment in... Read More
top of page 31 March 2017: By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) celebrated its tenth year with a celebratory service, this morning, Friday, 31st March. The maternity hospital first opened its doors ten years ago to the day on the 31st March 2007 and involved the amalgamation of maternity services from... Read More
top of page 30 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A Carrigaline headquartered company specialising in documentation services, TWi (Technically Write IT) have helped Cork Simon Community raise €12,000. The donation came from a percentage of TWi’s profits. It went to Cork Simon’s housing support project, which helps homeless people find homes and enables... Read More
top of page 29 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie On Friday, April 14th, Cork Tag Rugby will hold its annual Good Friday Charity Blitz in Highfield RFC in aid of the Mercy Hospital Foundation. Tag teams of all abilities are welcome to join those already registered such as the Defence Forces, with the emphasis... Read More
top of page 28 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie 13 years after featuring on the Trócaire box, Josiane leaves Rwanda for the first time and visits Ireland to thank people for their support Trócaire’s 2004 Lenten campaign focused on Rwanda and highlighted the situation in the country a decade after the genocide of 1994.... Read More
top of page 24 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Chartered Accountants Cork Society held their Annual Daffodil Day Breakfast in Clayton Hotel this week.
top of page 23 March 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An information meeting will take place in the Rochestown Park Hotel, Douglas, Cork on Thursday March 30th 2017 at 7.30pm. This meeting provides an opportunity to meet an expert on the subject and to share information with other people. Speaker Dr Orla Crosbie, F.R.C.P.I.,... Read More
top of page 22 March 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork today expressed concern at an offer by An Bord Pleanála to allow Indaver Ireland to correct health and environmental data presented in its application for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy. Evidence presented on the final day of the oral hearing showed... Read More
top of page 22 March 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie An Irish aid worker has revealed how petrified civilians are hiding in snake-infested swamps to avoid getting killed by militia in war-ravaged South Sudan. Nellie Kingston, who works with Concern Worldwide, has been responding to the crisis in the East African nation ever since famine... Read More
top of page 22 March 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD for Cork East Pat Buckley has called on the Government to support a Sinn Féin motion to establish a Truth Commission to investigate conditions at Mother and Baby Homes across the state following the revelations of mass graves at a home which... Read More