25 March 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork-based Agriculture Minister stresses the sectors’ vital role in the continuity of food supply The North County Cork based Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, today urged the European Commission to deploy the full range of supports available in order to ensure that the... Read More
14 March 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Senator Tim Lombard has confirmed that a suite of supports will be made available to businesses in impacted by COVID-19. Senator Lombard said: “I know that this is a worrying time for businesses and I want to assure them that my Fine Gael colleague, Minister for... Read More
29 February 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie North Cork Councillor John Paul O’Shea has been nominated by Fine Gael to contest the upcoming Seanad election on the Industrial and Commercial Panel. Ballot papers for the election of the various vocational panels will be issued on March 16th and polling remains open until March 30th. Cllr.... Read More
18 February 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Senator Tim Lombard has confirmed his nomination for the forthcoming Seanad Éireann elections. In the recent General Election Senator Lombard sought first time election to Dáil Éireann (and doing so in Cork South West). The party had calculated he could take the seat vacated by Clonakilty... Read More
24 January 2019 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie 2020 funding represents a 14.7% increase on 2019 allocation Cork County Council will receive a 14.7% increase in its roads budget this year. The Department of Transport has allocated almost €57.9 million to Cork County Council for local and regional road works in 2020 compared to €50.465 million... Read More
24 January 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork had said that another Fine Gael government would lead to even greater income inequality. The criticism comes follow a warning by ESRI economist, Barra Roantree, that Ireland has among the worst pre-tax income inequality in the European Union. The ESRI research showed that... Read More
19 January 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A Government Senator – who is a Solicitor by profession – has had a brick thrown through the window of his Blackpool, Cork City constituency office this Sunday evening. Fine Gael Senator Colm Burke said via Facebook “Bricks fired through the window in my office in Blackpool this... Read More
14 January 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie North Cork Fine Gael Councillor & General Election Candidate John Paul O’Shea recently confirmed that the planned new primary school in Kanturk will go to construction during 2020. Cllr. O’Shea received written confirmation from Minister of State at the Office of Public Works this week that the project... Read More
11 January 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie More than €13.3 million funding for local large–scale sports projects has been allocated, Cork North West Fine Gael General Election Councillor John Paul O’Shea has confirmed. Cllr. O’Shea said: “This funding is included in the first set of allocations under the new Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF). Funding allocations in Cork included: €9.2 million for... Read More
5 January 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The Broadband Connection Point for the rural village of Laharn (where Fine Gael Cllr John Paul O’Shea resides) is a step closer this week with the allocation of just over €2,000 in LEADER funding by the North Cork Local Action Group (LAG) through it’s implementing partner IRD Duhallow... Read More
5 January 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie County Mayor Cllr Christopher O’Sullivan has all the ingredients to be a TD for the constituency of Cork South West, but his Fianna Fail party need to add him to the ticket first, because he says he has no intention of going Independent (as then-Mayor Alan Coleman did in... Read More
