14 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Tourism Ireland, together with tourism companies from around the island of Ireland, including Fota House, Arboretum & Gardens, is mounting a major presence at this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show, to target the growing number of Americans interested in visiting our gardens. The Philadelphia Flower Show is the... Read More
14 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Each year the Business Information Systems (BIS) programme in UCC invites students to showcase some of their creative work, and to express those sides of themselves less visible in their academic work, in an annual anthology publication. This year’s Anthology, the 18th edition, titled ‘Out of Self’, which... Read More
11 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie St Lappans Church in Little Island is the Church of Ireland place of worship in Little Island and will celebrate its 150th Anniversary this year. Much has changed since it was built. In living memory it was surrounded by fields, but now industrial estates throb with economic activity... Read More
11 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The largest travel trade fair in the world, ITB in Berlin, is taking place this week. Twenty-two (22) tourism companies from Ireland and Germany have joined Tourism Ireland at the fair, in a bid to grow Ireland’s share of the German travel market – the world’s third-largest outbound... Read More
11 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie One of Irelands leading hair brands, winners of an Ulster Bank Business Achievers award in 2015, are today opening a second branch in Cork City. With 30 locations around Ireland including Dublin, Dundalk, Galway, Kildare and Cork, The Grafton Barber describes itself as “the destination barber for... Read More
11 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork PR firm ‘AM O’Sullivan PR Ltd’ is today celebrating its first year in business with an exciting new expansion phase ahead. Founder and Chief Executive, Ann-Marie O’Sullivan, FPRII, paid tribute to the consultancy’s team and clients for their ongoing support. “Twelve months ago as the country began... Read More
11 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has granted planning permission to Cork Education and Training Board (CETB) for the development of a three-school campus at Gortnaclohy, Carrigaline. This eagerly awaited development will include a state of the art Gaelcholáiste, Gaelscoil and SONAS Junior Primary School. The campus will accommodate over... Read More
11 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Port of Cork is set to attend Seatrade Cruise Global, the Cruise Industry’s Premier Global event next week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Seatrade Cruise Global is one of the key events in the cruise calendar and guarantees to bring together every facet of the business including cruise... Read More
10 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie With more than 15,000 employees in the hotel sector in the Region, the Cork Branch of the Irish Hotels Federation today (Thursday) hosted an awards ceremony to recognise their Employee of the Year 2016. There were more than 70 applications for the prestigious award with a shortlist of... Read More
10 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today in Cork city, Revenue officers seized 12,400 unstamped cigarettes and 1 kg of unstamped hand-roll tobacco. A quantity of the cigarettes, branded ‘Excellence’, and tobacco, branded ‘Flandria’, was discovered when a truck was stopped and searched as part of an ongoing operation into the sale and... Read More
10 March 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Denis Doyle’s famous yacht “Moonduster” is currently lying in a dilapidated condition in Norway. A meeting has been organised to discuss her possible future. The meeting of those involved in the seafaring community will take place in the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Crosshaven, Co Cork on Friday 18th March... Read More
10 March 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A coffee morning fundraising event was held on behalf of the Cork City Daffodil Day Committee at Nash 19, Princes Street, Cork yesterday morning. The event was co-hosted by Claire Nash, proprietor of Nash 19 and Bewley’s Ireland who were pleased to be part of this fundraising event... Read More