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22 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Green Party has said Cork should aim to be the electric bike capital of Europe in 10 years The party will propose a 15% increase in Local Property Tax, ring fenced in a two-to-one ratio between what it says are strategic cycle infrastructure for the city and...
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22 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie 6-year house price run is at an end In Cork City, prices in the third quarter of 2019 were 3% higher than a year previously, compared to a rise of 5% seen a year ago. The average house price is now €281,000, 71% above its lowest point. In...
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21 September 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie This week’s Prize Bond Star Prize of €50,000 goes to lucky Prize Bond number AJI 499276 held in County Cork. The lucky bond was purchased in 2017. There were over 4,800 prizes awarded in this week’s Prize Bond Draw, amounting to over €306,000. In addition to a €1...
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21 September 2019 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Spike Island lends itself to highlighting just how isolating life can be for people who are homeless or in danger of falling into homelessness. Shine A Light Night 2019, proudly supported by Bord Gais Energy is only four weeks away with the Business Leaders Sleep Out this year...
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21 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Irish-owned construction company, MMD Construction, has announced the creation of 100 new jobs. The news comes as Tánaiste Simon Coveney officially opens MMD Construction’s new fourth-generation office building at the Cork Airport Business Park. The new jobs will be created in a number of specialities as demand increases...
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21 September 2019 By Roger Jones II roger@TheCork.ie Enterteinmant No matter whether you have a full-time job or not, it never hurts to have some extra money coming in. A part-time gig is a way that you can spend your spare time earning money to put towards something special or just to help out with...
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21 September 2019 By Roger Jones roger@TheCork.ie Over the last year, plenty of events in various countries have changed the world’s outlook on the positivity of using CBD oil in treating specific conditions. North American countries (in particular Canada and the United States) are some of the leading nations when it comes down to adopting...
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21 September 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Tourism Ireland, together with a delegation of 13 Irish and Canadian companies – including Sheenco Travel (based in Goleen), has been undertaking a three-city sales blitz to Canada this week. They’ve meeting with group tour organisers and travel agents in the cities of London (south-west Ontario), Ottawa and...
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20 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie In the first half of 2019 there were 232 electric and 1011 hybrid cars licenced in Cork – accounting for 2.5% and 10.8% respectively of new private car sales. Experts at Insuremycars.ie say that sales are increasing at a slow and steady pace, a progression they expect to...
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19 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Working in partnership with the BRIDE Project Cork County Council has recently commissioned JBA Consulting to carry out an Invasive Plant Species Survey along the River Bride. The aim of the project is to map non-native invasive plant species which occur along the river bank, and it is planned to...
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19 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Curator of that museum and Deputy Mayor of the island, Mr Luke Agati, is one of a delegation from Tasmania to visit Passage West Maritime Museum this month to sign a friendship agreement between the two maritime museums. Chairman of the Municipal District, Seamus McGrath will sign the...
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19 September 2019 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cllr. Ted Tynan has called for urgent improvements and upgrades to be made to a number of pedestrian crossings at Ballyvolane and Mayfield which are inadequate for people with visual impairment. Cllr. Tynan said that the audible alerts from the pedestrian crossings in question are either not working...
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