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18 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Green Party in Cork has welcomed the announcement that Phase 2 of the Glanmire to city centre pedestrian/cycleway will be included in a national programme of “pathfinder” projects for sustainable transport. Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan, this week launched the Pathfinder Programme of 35 national exemplars of...
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18 October 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Aindreas Moynihan, has welcomed the publication of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants. The report is available online here. Deputy Moynihan commented: “The cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group was established in March...
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16 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie EPA finds smelly Kinsale Waste Water treatment plant undersized for existing housing demand The EPA has published a report in the last week criticising the continuous and ongoing breaches at Kinsale’s waste water treatment plant (Site Visit Report Kinsale WWTP Oct 2022). For years residents have been complaining...
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14 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cllr. O’Shea Welcome Funding For Community Centres in Cork Community centres in Cork will receive funding of up to €25,000 to upgrade facilities which will benefit users of all ages, according to North Cork Fine Gael Councillor John Paul O’Shea. Cllr. O’Shea was speaking after Minister for Rural...
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14 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The service has experienced a significant amount of added pressure due to the removal of a dedicated service from the city to Cork airport, the 226A in April 2020, forcing tourists onto the Kinsale 226 route bus service. Bus Eireann’s heavily used bus service from Kinsale to Cork...
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12 October 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Aindrias Moynihan, has urged people considering travelling abroad over Christmas and the New Year to check their passport expiry date as soon as possible to give them time to renew if needed. Deputy Moynihan commented, “Just like during the Summer, Christmastime...
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10 October 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Christ King Girls’ Secondary School has recently received approval and a substantial grant towards the completion of a significant new extension to its school complex. The new development will consist of four additional classrooms, two state-of-the-art specialist rooms namely: Graphics & Design and Communication Graphics (DCG). Additional new...
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3 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie TD’s need to vote en bloc to block the concrete block levy Sinn Féin TD for Cork East has urged all TDs to back the party’s upcoming motion in the Dáil to scrap the government’s concrete block levy plans. Speaking today, Deputy Buckley said: “Sinn Féin will bring...
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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?”...
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30 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie There are 3,277 primary schools and 548 secondary schools in the country, all of which will be eligible for funding The Environment Minister Eamon Ryan TD (Green Party) announced plans to provide free solar photovoltaic (PV) panels for every school in the country as part of this weeks...
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27 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Aindrias Moynihan welcomes new solar PV grants for businesses, public organisations and community groups Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North West, Aindrias Moynihan has welcomed the launch of new grants of up to €2400 for businesses, public organisations and community groups for the installation of solar PV (photovoltaic)...
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27 September 2022, Tuesday By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD has welcomed the progress being made by the Land Development Agency (LDA) towards delivering 265 new social and affordable homes at the former St. Kevin’s Hospital lands in Cork City. Enabling works have begun at the...
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