28 March 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Independent TD for Cork South-West Michael Collins has blasted the Government’s decision to approve the purchase of 4.1 million carbon credits from Slovakia at a cost of €2.9 million to help meet its 2020 climate ambition targets. Deputy Collins was speaking during a Dáil motion on the matter... Read More
28 March 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Bantry Library, a building of great architectural interest, is set to receive a grant of €259,920 from the Heritage Council for external conservation works. Cork County Council applied for the Historic Towns Initiative 2023 grant, which will fund much-needed refurbishment to preserve the library’s unique features. Bantry Library... Read More
23 February 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Politics Poor political and departmental leadership is contributing significantly to the ongoing crisis being experienced within the private forestry sector, according to Independent TD for Cork South-West Michael Collins. Deputy Collins made his remarks during a meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The... Read More
22 February 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Independent TD for Cork South-West Michael Collins has told the Dáil that he is seeing an alarming rise in the number of people attending his constituency clinics who are being left with no option but to sleep in their vans and cars because of the lack of available... Read More
15 February 2023 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Danny Collins today visited four Social Housing Developments in Charleville that will provide 64 new homes in the town. The developments consist of a Cork County Council Turnkey Development and three schemes undertaken in partnership between the Council and Approved... Read More
14 February 2023 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Independent TD for Cork South-West Michael Collins has once again made an urgent appeal for the recruitment of additional driver tester staff for the Skibbereen Driving Test centre. Deputy Collins raised the matter directly with the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, in the Dáil, where he pleaded with him to... Read More
22 January 2023 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie FISHERIES/POLITICS: West Cork Independent Deputy Michael Collins and his colleagues in the Rural Independent group demand financial support package for inshore fishermen The government can no longer stand idle when a variety of factors is driving the inshore fleet into a catastrophic financial gorge. The Rural Independent TDs... Read More
12 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie HEALTH POLITICS: A furious Deputy Michael Collins TD slams the HSE for withdrawing their appeal against the mental health commission’s decision to close beds in the Bantry hospital mental health unit “This decision paves the way for bed closures in the much-needed Bantry mental health unit from 18... Read More
10 January 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie There are fewer beds in Irish hospitals now than in 1980 – says TD Amid the escalating hospital crisis, harrowing patients’ accounts of wait times exceeding 12 hours to see a nurse or doctor in crowded ED waiting rooms, and days spent on trolleys waiting for beds, Deputy... Read More
9 January 2023 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Local TD comments on Bantry Local Injuries Unit (LIU) in Bantry Hospital Speaking today from his Cork South West Constituency, Deputy Michael Collins stated,” The news over the weekend that the Bantry Local Injuries Unit (LIU) in Bantry Hospital would be closed today Monday January 9th came as... Read More
30 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Economic disaster beckons without radical policy changes – according to West Cork Deputy Michael Collins and his colleagues in The Rural Independents “Is net zero climate dogma and exorbitant carbon and energy taxes more important to the government than the entire Irish economy, rural communities, and its people?”... Read More
24 September 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Book: Clonakilty Town Council 1613-2014 Photo taken outside O’Donovan’s Hotel, Clonakilty shows Dr. Mathew Potter, of University of Limerick, author and present Curator of Limerick Museum, (fourth from left) with members of the Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage sub-committee who organised the publication of “The History of Clonakilty Town Council”... Read More
