top of page 26 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A coffee morning fundraising event is being hosted on behalf of the Cork City Daffodil Day Committee by Nash 19, Princes Street, Cork city on Wednesday the 9th March, 2016 from 9.30 to 11.00 am. Claire Nash, proprietor of Nash 19 is pleased to... Read More
top of page 25 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Lidl Ireland today (25th February 2016) celebrated the opening of its new store in Glanmire, Co. Cork, following five months of construction. Representing a multi-million euro investment into the locality by the retailer, the state-of-the-art building measures nearly 24,000 square feet and stands at eight... Read More
top of page 25 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Carmel Nic Airt, the Príomhoide of Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin, currently on leave, heads to the Greek island of Leros tomorrow where she will spend a month assisting with the refugee crisis. Hundreds from Syria and other conflict zones in the region make the perilous... Read More
top of page 25 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Irish Guide Dogs (which is headquartered on the Model Farm Road, Cork) is delighted to announce their special 40th Anniversary edition of it’s Guidelines Magazine will be available as a supplement in both the Irish Times and Irish Examiner on Friday February 26th. Take a... Read More
top of page 25th February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Hoteliers in Cork have welcomed the strong growth in overseas travel to Ireland announced today (link to CSO figures), with trips to Ireland up 18.4% year on year for the period November 2015 – January 2016. On foot of a record year in tourism... Read More
top of page 25 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A new accelerator programme, called SPRINT, was launched today (Thursday) at Gateway UCC by Julie Sinnamon, CEO Enterprise Ireland and UCC VP for Research & Innovation Anita Maguire. Designed to support early stage start-ups, entrepreneurs and UCC-based researchers, the SPRINT Accelerator will focus on... Read More
top of page 25 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie General election candidate, and former Mayor of Co Cork, Cllr Alan Coleman has committed to retaining two 5-day-a-week offices in Bandon and Skibbereen if elected to Dail Eireann this Friday. During the election campaign Coleman has operated the two offices at St Finbarr’s place, Bandon... Read More
top of page 24 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A brand new Kitchen Garden to the tune of €3,000 in being planted today (February 24th) at the Cork Association for Autism centre in Mogeely by GIY and Cully & Sully. Late last year GIY and Cully & Sully teamed up to launch a... Read More
top of page 23 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Historically subjected to witty taunts from ‘ginger nut’ to ‘carrot top’, red hair is being celebrated in a new exhibition of of captivating photographic portraits at Cork International Airport from March 7-31, 2016. Photographer Jörg Köster has snapped over a thousand individual red haired... Read More
top of page 23 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie One in every eight Europeans has Vitamin D deficiency, according to the UCC-based coordinators of the ODIN project. Professors Kevin Cashman and Mairead Kiely at UCC’s Cork Centre for Vitamin D and Nutrition Research report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition this week... Read More
top of page 23 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Gardai have charged a woman, late 20’s, in connection with an investigation into a fatal fire which occurred at an apartment at Granary Court, Mallow, County Cork on the 13th March 2014 (i.e. two years ago), in which two men died. The woman is due... Read More
