18 November 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Green Party has strongly criticized the appropriateness of appointments made by Minister Simon Coveney to a group set up to review the recommendation to merge Cork city and county. The group, set up by the minister last month, is to review recommendations made last year to merge […]
28 September 2016 By Tom O’Sullivan tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork have welcomed the decision of Cork City Council to introduce car-free hours on St. Patrick’s Street. Speaking this morning, Oliver Moran, the Green Party representative in Cork North central said: “The car-free movement is based on the idea of returning to a city […]
14 July 2016 By Tom O’Sullivan tom@TheCork.ie Political reform activist and Green Party candidate (whenever the next election may be) for Cork North Central, Oliver Moran, has called on the Government to set out how it intends to respond to the consequences of Census 2016 for Dáil constituencies. The rise in population discovered by the […]
13 July 2016 By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie Out-going Chair of UCC Greens, Justin Fleming, said that the Lord Mayor driving an electric car would mean that Cork would be “leading by example” in response to climate change and peak oil. Mr Fleming said, “Petrol and diesel cars are ‘dead cars driving’ in the sense that […]
25 April 2016 By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie The secretary of the Cork Green Party, Oliver Moran, has called on Fianna Fáil to cut an agreement with Fine Gael and avoid a general election. Fianna Fáil should join the Green Party in calling for a referendum on the ownership of Irish Water, he said. Speaking today, […]
22 February 2016 By Tom O’Sullivan tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party candidate for Cork North Central, Oliver Moran, has called on voters to look beyond the options the government is presenting them when finding candidates to vote for on Friday. Speaking today, Mr Moran said: “This election was set up by the government as a choice […]
16 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cormac Manning, Green Party candidate for Cork North West, demonstrated Green Party policy on flood control this week by taking part in a project to plant native trees in the upstream catchment area of a river. “Latest research shows that the traditional approach of using flood barriers to […]
12 February 2016 By Tom O’Sullivan tom@TheCork.ie Innishannon, Co Cork has joined a growing list of Cork towns that will have no election posters erected. The Innishannon Tidy Towns committee have asked all political parties and candidates to refrain from erecting posters within the village. The request is a voluntary one, but so far it’s […]
2 February 2016 By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie Green Party candidate for Cork North Central, Oliver Moran, has called on the government to reverse the decision to introduce pay-by-weight on recycling. Households in Cork have started to receive notices that pay-by-weight will be introduced to all waste collections from July. The Department of the Environment estimates […]
2 February 2016 By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is encouraging young people in County Cork to make sure they are registered to vote, given that a General Election is just weeks away. If the election is held at the end of February, as widely expected, the deadline for inclusion […]