16 December 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Employees at Apple’s Cork campus have been putting the final touches on a variety concert which will be broadcast to residents and staff at St. Luke’s Nursing Home and Marymount University Hospice. The one hour concert of live and pre-recorded material will see volunteers bring Christmas cheer through... Read More
16 December 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Applications Open for Built Heritage Investment Scheme & Historic Structures Fund 2021 Cork County Council in conjunction with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage are inviting applications for grant funding under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme and Historic Structure Fund 2021. The scheme relates to buildings... Read More
15 December 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Fifteen additional staff to be hired as Ireland moves closer to building off-shore wind farms Green Rebel Marine has announced the €1.5 million purchase of a DA42 multi-purpose aircraft to conduct aerial surveys off the Irish coast. Thousands of square miles of ocean are due to undergo ecological... Read More
15 December 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Protestors outside Barry’s Tea HQ in Cork to highlight the issue of plastic in teabags Uplift campaigners today delivered the 13,000 signature petition to Barry’s Tea Headquarters in Cork after the company have repeatedly not met their promises to remove plastic from all of their teabags since they... Read More
14 December 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery; BUMBLEance, Covers of Comfort and Shine Centre for Autism among the 49 recipients Almost 50 Cork charities and community groups will benefit from funding from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s €50,000 community partnership grant. Among the local deserving projects announced today by the Currabinny-based... Read More
14 December 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie In Entertainment News The County Mayor has switched on the lights on the impressive 3-storey high tree in the atrium of Cork County Hall. The Mayor was accompanied by children related to her, in what was a much slimmed-down ceremony. Last year – prior to the current COVID... Read More
13 December 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The parents of a Crosshaven RNLI crew member is asking Cork people to support the charity’s annual Christmas appeal after volunteers faced an unprecedented year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The RNLI has seen a drop in income in 2020 as traditional fundraising activities had to be cancelled.... Read More
12 December 2020 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Dan Seaman Motors has secured another global car franchise to extend its vast range of New and Used Cars and SUVs available to drivers across Cork. A festive delivery of Subaru vehicles arrived at the dealership’s state-of-the-art Forge Hill showroom as it re-opened to the general public on... Read More
11 December 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Taoiseach Micheál Martin has welcomed news in relation to Development of the Paediatric Unit at Cork University Hospital. Capital approval on Phase 2 of the Paediatric Department at CUH has progressed and will provide 74 replacement beds, 50 children beds, and 24 infant beds, 4 HDU Beds and... Read More
9 December 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Delivery of strategic road infrastructure upgrades including such as the N28 Cork-Ringaskiddy, the Dunkettle Interchange, the Northern Ring Road, the M20 Cork-Limerick and N25 Cork-Rosslare… Ibec is calling on Government to be ambitious and seize the opportunities being presented by the economic recovery to enhance the quality of life of Cork’s... Read More
7 December 2020 By Roger L Kennedy roger@TheCork.ie Enable Ireland have launched an exciting fundraiser – winahousecork.ie tickets €100 each – which the charity hopes will grab the public’s interest and raise much-needed funds for their disability services. The charity, which provides services to over 9,200 children and adults with disabilities, was granted a licence... Read More
7 December 2020 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Taoiseach launches 69 new homes in Carrigaline An Taoiseach Micheál Martin has today launched Co-operative Housing Ireland’s Brookhill estate of 69 affordable family homes in Carrigaline, Co Cork. The development of BER ‘A rated’ homes was achieved through partnership with Cork County Council, the Housing Finance Agency, the... Read More