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3 March 2016: By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Overall Winner – Presentation Brothers College & Best Poster Presentation Prize – Ursuline Secondary School Teams of 2nd year students from schools across Munster built, programmed and battled their robots last night under the theme ‘robots and the internet of things’ in a bid to become the...
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3 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fianna Fail City Cork City Cllr Kenneth N. O’Flynn has major concerns regarding boiler services in Cork City. In response to a question put forward to the Chief Executive of the City Council, it was confirmed that over 4,000 boilers were serviced in 2015 despite the fact...
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3 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Simply the Best – ‘Tina Turner’ tours tours Cork, Galway and Waterford as Tina “Rebecca is so good, it’s scary!” Tina Turner “Rebecca is an amazing performer and vocalist. I was mesmerized, a night you’ll never forget” Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) ‘Tina Turner’s’ European tour, Simply the...
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3 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Workers’ Party will hold an informal event in Cork at 4.00pm this Saturday (5th March) afternoon to mark International Women’s Day. The short ceremony will be held at the gates of the park in Grand Parade which has been unofficially renamed Mother Jones Park in honour of...
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3 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The inaugural CIT Cork School of Music Day of Percussion will be held on the 13th of March, 2016 in the Stack Theatre, CIT Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork. The day will consist of masterclasses and a concert. The Cork School of Music are delighted to...
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3 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Lidl staff in Cork are celebrating this week as they revealed they have raised a fantastic €77,753 for their chosen charity, Barretstown. This has helped the retailer smash their national fundraising target by raising €1.2 million for Barretstown, €200,000 more than their initial target of €1 million in...
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3 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Cork Airport Hotel has re-launched following an extensive refurbishment, and is giving back to local families with the announcement that Down Syndrome Cork is its ‘Charity of the Year’ for 2016. The significant partnership highlights the family-friendly focus at the new Cork Airport Hotel, where the emphasis...
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2 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie There are two Hotels in Cork Airport, and a little known fact is that both are now owned by the same firm, indeed they now share the same general manager. Indeed, the Metropole Hotel in Cork City Centre is also owned by the same firm, but more about...
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2 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Have you ever heard of Aspira? Less than four weeks ago the firm announced the recruitment of 50 new staff, and now tit’s back in the headlines for becoming a principal sponsor for Cork City FC for the 2016 season. The IT specialist company has been an...
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2 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The first nationally co-ordinated ‘Local Enterprise Week’ led by the Local Enterprise Offices takes place around the country this March, and from Monday 7th to Friday 11th, the Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Cork City will host a wide array of events for the local business community and those...
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2 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork’s rise as an entrepreneurial hub has been further boosted with the opening of Blackstone LaunchPad at UCC, one of only three locations in Ireland to host the entrepreneurship programme. According to Peter Finnegan, the newly-appointed director of Blackstone LaunchPad at UCC, “this is an important development not...
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2 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today Cork City Council will be using the hashtags #ourcouncilday and #ÁrLáSaChomhairle on Twitter to talk about some of the services they provide. The objective is to increase engagement with the public, who are the ‘customers’ and also the raison d’etre for the Council. This is the...
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