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18 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie St. Matthias COI Church in Ballydehob, West Cork will be ablaze with colour this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 19th & 20th August, when it hosts a floral festival to celebrate the reopening of the church following extensive repairs to the roof and internal structures carried out over...
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17 August 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fine Gael TD for Cork South West and Minister of State Jim Daly has confirmed the news that the Model School, Dunmanway will now be allocated a school traffic warden. After actively lobbying the Council with a number of years Minister Daly has received confirmation that necessary arrangements...
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16 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Glanmire’s success at the Tullamore show in the Macra/FBD Farmskills competition means the Stephen Cullinane Cup passes to the Seandun Region of Co Cork for 2017. The Macra/FBD Farmskills title will pass from Caheragh, Carbery to Glanmire, Seandun but will remain in Cork for 2017 after Glanmire...
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16 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Minister for State Jim Daly has today confirmed that progress is being made on the N71 Leap road surfacing. A long outstanding issue for the community, the end is now in sight as a timeframe has now been established for the works. Commenting on the issue, Minister...
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14 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Baltimore RNLI assisted two sailors this evening (Monday 14 August) after their yacht lost power off Mizen Head off the coast of West Cork. The alarm had been raised earlier in the afternoon following a report from a 26ft yacht that they had lost all battery power....
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14 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Travel bible Lonely Planet has named two routes on the island of Ireland – the Wild Atlantic Way and the Causeway Coastal Route – as two of the “world’s ultimate road trips”, in its new publication Epic Drives of the World. Welcoming the news, Niall Gibbons, CEO...
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14 August 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork-based SMEs could win one of three exhibition spaces at Ploughing joining other businesses already confirmed for open eir’s High Speed High Street including Mallow’s ‘Grasstec’. (Open eir is a whole sale reseller of eir fibre) Competition marks open eir’s second year as official communications partner to Ploughing Monday,...
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14 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurley is urging the people of Cork to come and enjoy the fantastic line-up of events organised for Heritage Week 2017. The week, which is coordinated by the Heritage Council and part of the wider European Heritage Days Programme,...
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12 August 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Government needs to take urgent action to address new figures which reveal at least 1,015 people with disabilities are on social housing waiting lists in Cork, according to one of the country’s largest charities. Rehab, Ireland’s largest independent charity for people with disabilities, says the Government is...
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11 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Innishannon Bypass needed to open up West Cork for commuters and tourists – Murphy O’Mahony Cork South West TD, Margaret Murphy O’Mahony has said that the Government must start looking at restarting and funding the bypass of Innishannon as a means of opening up West Cork to...
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10 August 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurly is today congratulating the five Cork towns nominated by Cork County Council for the 2017 IPB Pride of Place Competition, in association with Co-Operation Ireland. The nominations are: 1. Ballymacoda/Ladysbridge Community Council Ltd, population between 300 and 1,000. 2....
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10 August 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The BBC series Saving Lives at Sea, showcasing the lifesaving work of the RNLI, will be on TV screens from Wednesday 16 August at 8pm on BBC Two. The 12-part documentary series features real rescues carried out by the charity’s lifeboat crews around Ireland and the UK....
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