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25 January 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Dara Murphy, Data Minister, welcomes further growth in Cork technology sector as global software brand Hortonworks, and indigenous cloud security firm, Fortuity, announce 60 new jobs over the coming 18 months. Dara Murphy, Minister for Data Protection, has welcomed the further growth in Cork’s booming technology sector today...
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25 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Software provider ‘Hortonworks’ has opened a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in Cork, and with plans to hire 50 people over the coming 18 months. Hortonworks is the Palo Alto-headquartered company driving adoption of Apache Hadoop, freely-downloadable software for storing, analysing and managing large amounts of data. Founded in...
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23 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. John Paul O’Shea, will hold a Civic Reception for the Irish Naval Service in recognition of the tremendous humanitarian work undertaken by the LE Eithne, LE Niamh and LE Samuel Beckett on Monday afternoon, January 25th 2015 at County Hall....
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21 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil Finance spokesperson Michael McGrath (based in Carrigaline, Co Cork) has said he is cautiously welcoming the announcement that Pepper Asset Management is to begin offering new mortgages in the Irish market. Pepper already has a presence as they bought the loan book of sub-prime lender...
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21 January 2016, 9.25am By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance Councillor Mick Barry this morning said “years of Government cutbacks” to the health service are ultimately responsible for this morning’s decision to cancel non-urgent elective procedures at Cork University Hospital (CUH). Cllr Barry slammed Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch for standing over health cuts...
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21 January 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Workers’ Party in Cork have described the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzterland as: “the annual outing of world leaders to receive their orders on how to run the world economy from the economic elite of conglomerates, multinationals and the super-rich.” Calling for disestablishment...
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20 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin General Election candidate Donncahdh Ó Laoghaire has called on City and County Hall planners to work together to develop a plan for Togher and Douglas as entire Districts. According to Cllr Ó Laoghaire, these two areas are anamalous, lying across two Local Authorities. He was proposing...
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20 January 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP and aviation spokesperson on the EU transport committee Deirdre Clune will host talks with the European Commission’s External Aviation Policy chief next Wednesday in Brussels on the issue of Transatlantic flights between Cork and Boston. Speaking in advance of those meetings the Cork MEP raised...
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20 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Lord Mayor, Cllr Chris O’Leary warmly welcomed the announcement of €5million in European funding for Cork City Centre. Cllr O’Leary said ‘We warmly welcome this announcement which follows a very comprehensive application submitted by Cork City Council. Following on from the recent announcement of the Capitol development,...
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19 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie 65 new housing units are to be built at the site owned by Cork City Council at Deanrock in Togher. The development will be advertised next month and is subject to a public consultation process. I think it is important the local residents engage during the consultation...
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18 January 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, Jerry Buttimer, has said that the new Burglary Act will help keep repeat burglars off the streets of Cork and improve the safety of our community. “Yesterday the Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald, announced that the Criminal Justice (Burglary...
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18 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Green Party candidate for Cork North Central, Oliver Moran, called for a referendum on the right to housing at the Green Party general election conference in Dublin on Saturday. Focus Ireland are also calling for the a referendum on the right to housing in order to bring...
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