21 September 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie News in brief – Photos Politicians from across the country, including from Cork, attending an Irish Pharmacy Union Budget Briefing Day in Buswells Hotel, Dublin today. Here they heard that the upcoming budget must take steps to address the underfunding of Ireland’s community pharmacy sector according to the... Read More
21 September 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP Deidre Clune – who is based in Blackrock, Cork City – is consulting top international experts about the continuing fight against Covid-19. As a member of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the pandemic, the Fine Gael representative is attending meetings at the European Medicines... Read More
19 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Irish Water continues to carry out vital network improvement works in Cork City that will provide a quality service for years to come. To deliver these works, as part of the National Leakage Reduction Programme, Mardyke Walk will be closed from Monday, 19 September to Friday, 30 September.... Read More
17 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie September does and feels like the start of a new year. Summer clothes are packed away, holidays have been taken, long evenings shorten and schoolbags reappear. For many, it is a new beginning – a new school term, the start of college, a new career to embark upon.... Read More
15 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie This powerful film tells the inspirational story of Vicky Phelan’s personal journey and heroic work to uncover the Irish CervicalCheck scandal Vicky, the award winning Irish documentary*, will open the 10th IndieCork festival at the Gate Cinema in Cork City on October 2nd, ahead of its general nationwide... Read More
14 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Joint Committee on Public Petitions will meet tomorrow, Thursday, 15 September, to resume consideration of a petition on saving services at a health centre in east Cork. The meeting at 1.30pm in Committee Room 4 of Leinster House will hear from representatives of the Health Service Executive (HSE)... Read More
14 September 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Tusla Launches Urgent National Foster Care Recruitment Appeal in Cork – Humanitarian crisis and Covid-19 are key drivers of foster care demand in 2022 Tusla – The Child and Family Agency had launched a Fostering Recruitment Campaign. The aim of the campaign is to recruit new foster carers... Read More
12 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Possible disruption to supply for homes and businesses today Irish Water wishes to advise customers in Upper Killeens, Lower Killeens, Monard, Rathpeacon, Old Whitechurch Road, Blackpool, Kilbarry and surrounding areas that as part of the network improvement works being delivered in Kilbarry, there may be disruption to water... Read More
12 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie 2.5km of new watermains & a step closer to a more reliable water supply Irish Water is replacing 2.5km of problematic watermains in Ballinglanna, Clonakilty which will improve water quality for the community. The project will commence in the coming days and form part of Irish Water’s National... Read More
8 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology Allergy School takes place in Cork for the first time this month The European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Allergy School takes place in Cork for the first time on 9th – 11th September 2022 and is focused... Read More
8 September 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Rory Jackson, Skibbereen-West Cork Local Representative, with the Green Party today said “It is very worrying to see an increase in the number of dead birds being reported on our shores. We have watched avian flu spread across the UK and knew at some time, it would visit... Read More
6 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Irish Cancer Society is urgently seeking Cork-based Volunteer Drivers to help bring cancer patients to and from their treatments. Volunteer Drivers located across the county are being sought to drive patients to hospitals in Cork. This vital service is completely free for patients. Last year, the Irish... Read More