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 […]
4 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The last meeting of 2015 for the Cork City Joint Policing Committee Will take place on Monday (7th December 2015) at 2 pm in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Cork. The JPC is a forum where Senior Gardai interact with elected City Councillors. Routine reports presented include a […]
2 December 2015, Wednesday By Tom O’Sullivan tom @TheCork.ie Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has called for the enactment of local bye-laws to regulate the operating times of waste collection companies which, he said, have been causing a nuisance in many estates around the city with some reports of collection trucks arriving as early […]
4 November 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has accused the Bank of Ireland of introducing an apartheid banking system which would see its counter services all but closed off to working class people. Cllr. Tynan said the bank’s decision to ban counter withdrawals of less than €700 and lodgements […]
14 June 2015, Sunday By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie http://twitter.com/david_osullivan I remember well the negotiations last year (2014) over who would become Lord Mayor of Cork City. Talks, and more talks At the time – as a Journalist – I was contacted by many candidates looking to provide statesman like quotes in order to bolster their […]
14 April 2015 By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie Workers’ Party Cork City Councillor Ted Tynan has called on the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government to “re-nationalise the Whitegate Refinery in the national interest” and to ensure Ireland retains the ability to refine oil products and keep a strategic reserve in case of future oil shortages which could […]
![[Audio vox pop] Will Cork people travel to Dublin for todays water protest?](https://www.thecork.ie/wp-content/uploads/EHIFV4Lq_400x4001.jpeg "[Audio vox pop] Will Cork people travel to Dublin for todays water protest?")
10th December 2014, Wednesday By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie I asked people in Cork City for their thoughts. Is there an appetite to travel to the nations capital (some 3 hours away) to protest against water charges.
21st November, Friday 3pm By David O’Sullivan http://twitter.com/david_osullivan The Taoiseach was in Cork today for a number of official engagements for positive announcements In the morning our reporter David O’Sullivan had the details of the Taoiseachs busy schedule… The Taoiseach started off in the Clarion Hotel where he turned the sod (across the river) on […]
10th September 2014, 3pm By David O’Sullivan david@TheCork.ie The first blockade to stop the installation of water meters on the Northside of Cork City continues. It’s close to Mayfield in the Barnavanra Crescent Housing Estate. (Technically the area is within the Cork County COuncil area but it borders the City Council area. Interestingly installation of […]