top of page 2 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A report on the Irish Cancer Society’s Counselling Service shows that many families impacted by a cancer diagnosis require emotional support in the months and years after a cancer diagnosis. While 48 per cent of those accessing the service did so within the same... Read More
top of page 2 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork International Choral Festival is proud to announce Offaly-born Amanda Feery as the winner of the 2016 Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition. As winner of the competition, her piece Changed Utterly, will receive its world premiere in the spectacular surrounds of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral... Read More
top of page 1 march 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie BoyleSports reports further support for Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin to become the next Taoiseach. Having been available at 11/2 over the weekend continuous support has seen his odds slashed into 7/4 with Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny remaining favourite at 4/9 having drifted from 1/10. BoyleSports... Read More
top of page 1 March 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Pallas Foods, have announced that their trade-only Inspiration Show, “a must-attend fixture in the Irish hospitality calendar”, will take place in The Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 8th and 9th March 2016. Now in its 6th year, the Pallas Foods... Read More
top of page 29 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Entertainment news When: Wednesday 16 March, 8pm Ballymaloe Grainstore will welcome comic Des Bishop for his first stand-up show in the Shanagarry, Co Cork venue. He’ll perform Grey Matters on Wednesday 16 March – the night before St. Patrick’s Day. The fantasy of... Read More
top of page 29 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie It has been said that engineering stimulates the mind – that children need to get their hands dirty; make things, dismantle things and fix things. This is why STEAM Education Ltd (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Applied Maths), has developed a new engineering programme... Read More
top of page 29 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland’s leading retail wholesaler Musgrave Group, food and beverage company Nestlé and leading consumer goods company Unilever, Cork are three of 30 companies participating in Ireland’s ‘Skills for Work Week’ from today, Monday 29th February to Friday 4th March 2016. Activities will take place... Read More
top of page 28 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Engineers Week, the annual campaign to inspire the next generation of engineers and excite students about the possibilities a career in engineering can offer, kick-offs in Cork today and runs until next Saturday (March 5th). The week-long series of activities across the country, now in... Read More
top of page 27 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie On Saturday 19th March next, a one day conference on helping people to find their ancestors will happen at the Clayton Hotel, Silversprings, Cork. Finding Your Ancestors Cork Genealogical Society & the Irish Genealogical Research Society are proud to announce a co-hosted one day conference... Read More
top of page 27 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Dr Rowan Williams, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012, and who is currently Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, will visit the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross on Sunday, 28th February, 2016. He will be at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral,... Read More
top of page 26 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie New manufacturing facility and laboratory will enhance capability for future product portfolio and underpins GSK’s investment in Cork GSK, has announced the opening of a €12m investment project at its Currabinny-based manufacturing site in Cork. The investments – a €9.5m Kilo Scale Facility and... Read More
top of page 26 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie In 2012 Bus Éireann, in conjunction with the National Transport Authority, carried out a review of public transport services along the Blarney – City Centre – Mahon Point Corridor. As a result, Route 215: Blarney – City Centre – Mahon Point was introduced in... Read More
