22 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Airport, the country’s second-largest international airport has released its traffic figures for the first half of the year which reveal the impact of COVID-19 is expected to be the loss of 2 million passengers and more than €23 million in lost revenues by year-end. Before the impact... Read More
21 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie From the Well is the annual Cork County Council Library & Arts Service short story anthology. Deirdre Kingston’s ‘Catch & Release’ was selected as the winner for 2020 and is now available on podcast along with two other stories from this year’s collection. The move to record the... Read More
20 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Business Growth: Just 7 months ago… at the start of 2020, Saturday Pizzas Ltd employed 5 people now they employ 8, and plans to recruit 2 more over the summer. Inded, by the end 2023, they’re projecting that 20 will be employed. Saturday Pizzas is planning to... Read More
19 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikers have congratulated the Debenhams workers for their battle for improved redundancy and their campaign to change legislation and prevent this situation from happening again. Thirty-six years to the day after the Dunnes workers began their three year battle for the right to not... Read More
19 July 2020, Saturday 10pm By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The volunteers of Crosshaven RNLI lifeboat were paged at 5.51pm this evening to go to the aid of a broken down vessel, East of Power Head. The lifeboat with Ian Venner in command and with Claire Morgan, Derek Moynan and Jonathan Birmingham on-board made best speed... Read More
18 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Council, as part of its COVID-19 Community Support Programme, established an emergency fund for groups across County Cork assisting in the response efforts to COVID-19. Following the previous allocation of €70,757 to groups across the County in June, a second round of funding is now open... Read More
16 July 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie As a result of Covid 19 and its impact on all aspects of living and working, Cork County Council, under Project ACT and with support from the National Transport Authority (NTA), will be introducing a wide variety of on-street measures designed to assist citizens and businesses in managing... Read More
13 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Passengers must wear face coverings when travelling on public transport in Cork to protect themselves and others from Covid-19, Colm Burke TD has said. Colm Burke TD said, “The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has signed the Health Act for the mandatory wearing of face covering on public... Read More
11 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fine Gael Councillor, John Paul O’Shea has welcomed changes to grants for domestic wells which will see increased funding available to people in County Cork. The changes have come into place and are effective since June 2020. Councillor O’Shea said, “Under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme, the Government... Read More
10 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anytime Fitness, the world’s largest and fastest-growing 24-hour fitness franchise, opened its fourth club in Ireland on Monday July 6th in Ballincollig, Cork. This is the first new gym to open in Ireland since lockdown and has been designed around social distancing guidelines. This includes not just the... Read More
8 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has recently allocated over €1.6million in funding to a range of community, voluntary and sporting organisations through the Council’s annual Community Fund Scheme. Each year, the scheme contributes financial support to hundreds of community and voluntary organisations around the County. Administered by the Council’s 8... Read More
8 July 2020By Tom Collinstom@TheCork.ie ‘Carrigaline Pottery’ used to be famous, but in the 1970s the company suffered from financial difficulties going first into receivership, and then closing in 1979, in more recent years the famous Shanagarry based pottery expert Stephen Pearce had a presence in the former factory but that too closed. Today, the... Read More
