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26 October 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Funding for a major trauma care centre at Cork University Hospital must be set aside in the HSE’s National Service Plan for 2022, a Fine Gael TD has said. Colm Burke, Fine Gael’s Dáil spokesperson on health, said the National Trauma Strategy includes plans for two major trauma...
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26 October 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The donation will support more than 2,000 calls to Aware’s mental health helpline and pay for My Lovely Horse Rescue’s animal feed bill in Cork for 2022 TELUS International Ireland is to donate €50,000 to Irish charities My Lovely Horse Rescue and Aware after reaching its annual fundraising...
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26 October 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie CIF Construction Safety Week 2021 is running this week from Monday, 25th October to Friday, 29th October with a focus on a different theme each day. The theme for today was “Mind Your Health” and CIF Southern Region focused on mental health in the industry. With this in...
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23 October 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Irish Water and Cork County Council would like to remind customers supplied by Macroom Public Water Supply, serving Macroom town, Codrum, Masseytown, Kilnagurteen, Coolehane, Coolcower, Macloneigh, Carrigadrohid, Ballinagree and surrounding areas, that the Boil Water Notice issued on 20 October remains in place until further notice. The Boil...
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23 October 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Due to significant challenges, high volume of presentations to the hospitals Acute Medical Assessment Unit (AMAU) and increased infection control measures, Bantry General Hospital has temporarily suspended hospital visiting effective immediately. This does not affect St. Josephs Residential Unit, which is located on the hospital grounds. The situation...
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18 October 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Focus Ireland “Shine A Light” Sleep out 2021 took place at Spike Island Co. Cork, and other locations around the City and County overnight, to raise funds to combat Homelessness. This year’s event was the first on the Island and at other physical locations since the pandemic,...
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16 October 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Due to significant challenges, high volume of presentations to the hospital’s Acute Medical Assessment Unit (AMAU) and increased infection control measures, Bantry General Hospital will be temporarily suspending hospital visiting effective immediately. This does not affect St. Josephs Residential Unit, which is located on the hospital grounds. The...
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16 October 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Leukemia Unit at the Mercy University Hospital has undergone some “wild” changes. The unit, which treats some of the youngest patients at the Mercy, has recently announced its name change from St Bernadette’s Ward to the more child friendly name of the Safari Unit. With approximately 30-40...
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14 October 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Thermo Fisher Scientific, based in Currabinny, have donated €56,000 in IT equipment to four Cork groups, the Carrigaline Family Support Centre, Coláiste Muire in Crosshaven, Barnardos and Ashbourne House Direct Provision Centre in Glounthaune. Speaking ahead of the delivery of 25 desktops to the Carrigaline Family Support Centre,...
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13 October 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A call has gone out to schools in West Cork, and elsewhere across the country, from Cork sprinter Phil Healy, who has joined forces with Fyffes in an online quest to find ‘Ireland’s Fittest School’. Along with fellow Olympic athlete, Dubliner David Gillick, she has recorded a series...
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11 October 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Ireland should fundamentally change the approach to regulating certain social media content and thereby prioritise young people’s mental health, according to Fine Gael TD Michael Creed. Deputy Creed made his comments in light of recent revelations that Facebook had purposely hidden disturbing research about how teenagers felt worse...
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11 October 2021 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie A €550,000 machine part-funded by two Cork cancer survivors is generating cancer profiles in 24 hours – eliminating an eight-week wait for patients. The Ion Torrent Genexus sequencer at Cork University Hospital is the first of its kind in Ireland, identifying the DNA profiles of cancers – which...
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