20 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Lord Mayor of Cork City has taken the unusual step of writing an ‘open letter’ to the people of Cork. We have reproduced it below in full. Open letter to the people of Cork by the Lord Mayor of Cork Sinn Fein Cllr Chris O’Leary As... Read More
18 September 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie At its Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 17th of September in Clonakilty, Cork Regional Chambers elected Ms. Maura Hunter of Mallow Chamber as Chair for the coming year. Speaking after her election Ms. Hunter expressed her thanks to outgoing Chairman Brian Curtis of Cobh and Harbour Chamber... Read More
18 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Minister for European Affairs and Data Protection, Dara Murphy TD, today announced the creation of 50 new highly skilled jobs over 3 years at the Data Management Solutions Company, Asystec. The Minister made the announcement at the official opening of the new Asystec Cork offices in Ballincollig,... Read More
18 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring TD, today launched a new €3.5m phase of the Wild Atlantic Way with further development for the touring route’s 188 designated Discovery Points. With the intention of bringing each site to life and encouraging visitor engagement, it... Read More
18 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Labour Minister for Trade Promotion, Seán Sherlock TD celebrated the opening of the new eSentire Inc. European-based headquarters and Security Operations Center (SOC) in Cork today and announced the first bursary for the Department of Computing at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). Speaking at the event... Read More
18 September 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Rosemary O’Neill, daughter of Tip O’Neill, the late Speaker of the U.S., Congress, paid a courtesy visit to the Lord Mayor of cork, with a delegation from Mallow, the ancestral home of the O’Neill family. She will attend the Thomas Kent funeral in Cork this weekend and a... Read More
18 September 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie There was solid attendance for the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Breakfast Briefing held in conjunction with Fitzgerald & Partners at Blue haven Hotel, Kinsale this morning. The event which was attended by SMEs and business people in Kinsale and surrounding Towns received an excellent briefing by Suzanne... Read More
18 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork based Deirdre Clune has welcomed the decision of the European Commission to explore the possibility of extending the European geographical scheme to nonagricultural products. Traditional Irish products from Cork Crystal to Clones Lace to hurleys have all been identified in an EU report as products that... Read More
16 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Opera House has launched its new programme, speaking to TheCork.ie CEO of the Cork Opera House, Mary Hickson said “This has been a great year for Cork Opera House, made all the more special by our 160th anniversary. Again, variety is key in our next season’s... Read More
15 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland has few statues Foreign visitors to Ireland often notice a lack of patriotic statues. There are holy statues of course, but few statues of people who lived in the past few hundred years. There are historical reasons for this, related to Ireland’s independence story, and the... Read More
15 September 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Another nail in the coffin of the printing industry? or a boost for the tourism industry? Ireland South MEP Deirdre Clune has supported an amendment to a tourism report passing through the European Parliaments Transport and Tourism committee today, Tuesday 15th September, which calls on EU member states,... Read More
15 September 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork based Musgrave Group, which is behind the SuperValu and Centra franchises, has expanded into offering Car and Home insurance policies. This follows on from the launch of Travel insurance in November 2014. Listeners to RTE Radio 1 this week will have heard an advert for... Read More
