5 May 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire has called on the Minister for Health to review the funding for the Home Help Scheme, and for the Home Care packages. He was commenting on figures obtained by PQ, which show that the majority of new applications for Home Help approved... Read More
5 May 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie With their BEAT Ovarian Cancer Campaign Breakthrough Cancer Research, OvaCare, the Emer Casey Foundation and SOCK are asking women across Ireland not to ignore the warning signs of ovarian cancer, a disease commonly known as a silent killer. Breakthrough Cancer Research (Breakthrough), in conjunction with OvaCare, Emer... Read More
5 May 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Society to highlight high rate of misdiagnosis for coeliac patients and raise awareness of signs and symptoms of coeliac disease during Awareness Week The annual Coeliac Awareness Week – organised by the Coeliac Society of Ireland and sponsored by Knorr – will take place this year from... Read More
4 May 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Volunteer Centre is encouraging not for profit organisations to increase their understanding of new ways of volunteering – as National Volunteering Week takes place from May 16-22, supported by Salesforce.org. The importance of volunteers was highlighted in a new survey of 400 volunteer involving organisations carried out... Read More
3 May 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie UrAbility presented a talk on breaking down barriers in education through technology for parents of kids with disabilities at Oriel House Hotel in Cork on May 3rd, with proceeds donated to Dogs for the Disabled, a nationwide charity to improve the lives of people living with physical disabilities.... Read More
3 May 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Irish Naval Vessel LÉ RÓISÍN departed from the Naval Base, Haulbowline, Co Cork on Sunday, (1st May) at 12 noon. The ship is headed to warmer – yet dangerous – waters in the Mediterrean for humanitarian search and rescue operations in conjunction with the Italian authorities.... Read More
3 May 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Greens spokesperson to the Ringaskiddy incinerator oral hearing, Dr. Gordon Reid, says – quoted in a Cork Green Party statement this morning – that he has found research showing thousands of years cut from the lives of people living near incinerators due to premature deaths. The research... Read More
30 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie For the last nine years, Jennifer Dowler founder of the Irish Dogs for the Disabled, Dripsey, Co. Cork and Summerlea House, Togher Road, Cork City has been providing dogs to children and adults with physical disabilities. She has now received the April Cork Person of the Month... Read More
28 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today, the Minister for Defence, Mr. Simon Conveney, T.D., announced that L.É. Róisín will depart the Naval Base, Haulbowline on Sunday, 1st May 2016, to assist the Italian authorities in the search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean. Earlier this month the Government approved the despatch of... Read More
25 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An Oral Hearing into Indaver Ireland’s proposal to develop a €160 million Resource Recovery Centre in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, moves into its second week today at the Carrigaline Court Hotel. The Pro Incinerator position John Ahern, Managing Director, Indaver Ireland (which wants to build the incinerator) said, “we... Read More
25 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The smooth voiced RTÉ broadcaster, psychoanalyst and author, Michael Murphy joined Micheál Sheridan, CEO of the Mercy Hospital Foundation and Vivienne Curran, Cancer Nurse Specialist, Mercy University Hospital, to launch the Mercy Hospital Foundation’s Bowel Cancer Awareness campaign. Michael has lent his support to the campaign having... Read More
22 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today was a good hair day for the Mercy University Hospital as leading Cork salon, Wayne Lloyd Hair, announced details of a partnership that will see stylists visit the hospital on a regular basis to treat patients to a “new do”. The charity partnership will see the team... Read More
