22 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie New figures from the CSO indicate that 2015 had the best ever January to November for overseas visitors to Ireland, with more than 8 million arrivals recorded. Overseas visitor numbers have increased by 14% over the first eleven months of 2015 – an additional one million visitors.... Read More
22 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada, has reiterated her call for the Irish government to take action on super trawlers, otherwise known as freezer factory vessels. “Since November, these vessels have been netting huge quantities of fish all along the Irish west and north-west coast. “Not a single... Read More
22 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil publish plans for ‘Rainy Day Fund’ to cushion future slowdown – Pledge will form key part of manifesto Fianna Fáil has today announced plans for the establishment of a fund administered by the NTMA to hold any further windfall gains from Corporation Tax and other... Read More
22 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Government will increase grants for schools Fine Gael Cork South West TD, Jim Daly, who also is Vice Chairman of the Oireachtas Education Committee, has welcomed the news that the practise of primary schools demanding cash payments from parents will come to an end. “This is an issue... Read More
21 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork City Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that efforts by Joan Burton to portray the Labour Party as the social conscience of the coalition government and a brake on Fine Gael’s low-tax, cheap labour economy are a “pathetic attempt to distance Labour from five years of... Read More
20 December 2015 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Something significant happened in Cork last Sunday. In the small village of Ballyhea – on the main Cork-Limerick Road – at 10.30am the 250th ‘Ballyhea Says No’ march took place. Organiser Diarmuid O’Flynn sent us a statement. Statement from ‘Ballyhea Says No’ organiser Diarmuid O’Flynn Last Sunday we... Read More
18 December 2015, 10.30am By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The decision of an Bord Pleanála to grant approval for the €50 million redevelopment of the former Capital Cinema on Grand Parade has been warmly welcomed by Lord Mayor, Cllr Chris O’ Leary. ‘The development will be a major catalyst for the City Centre and has... Read More
17 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin General Election Candidate Cllr Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire has called on the local authorities in Cork, to work with other key stakeholders, such as Bus Éireann, to take urgent action to help tackle the increasingly difficult levels in the Western Suburbs. In particular, he has called for... Read More
17 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Ireland South MEP, Deirdre Clune (from Cork City), has welcomed new EU rules voted upon this week in Strasbourg that will tighten how companies can use people’s data. The new rules give the consumer incraesed rights over how their personal data is used by banks,... Read More
17 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie With just over a week to Christmas Day the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Chris O’Leary, is encouraging people to visit Cork city and enjoy its wonderful festive atmosphere and great shopping experience. ‘Cork City Council encourages young and old alike to enjoy and indulge in the wonderful... Read More
17 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie After a successful 10 week deployment to assist in the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, the Irish Naval vessel L.É. Samuel Beckett returned today (Thursday) to the Naval Base in Haulbowline. L.É. Samuel Beckett was the third naval vessel to be deployed to the Mediterranean to assist... Read More
16 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The new HSE Service Plan will make grim reading for patients and frontline staff in our hospitals says Fianna Fáil Health spokesperson, Billy Kelleher. “Despite an ageing population and the plan’s admission that health needs increase as people get older and people over 65 years of age... Read More
