13 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The death has been announced of RTÉ Broadcaster Derek Davis, at 67 years of age. News of his death emerged on RTÉ’s Radio 1’s Sean O’Rourke show earlier. Derek Davis was a man who loved Cork, and the Kinsale area in particular. Back in 2011 I met […]
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13 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The world it is a changin’ Hitherto Taxi/Hackney drivers were the only people who could collect passengers from public places. This wasn’t just for licensing reasons, it was also for practical reasons, as a potential passenger would have now way of knowing that a driver wished to […]
11 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Labour T.D. Michael McCarthy has welcomed an announcement that funding of over €300,000 for the non-Gaeltacht islands will be provided for the period from mid-May to the end of 2015. The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has reached agreement with Comhar na nOileán Teo who […]
5 May 2015, Tuesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie he Heritage Council has announced funding for a number of heritage projects in County Cork under its 2015 Community-based Heritage Grants Scheme. A total of 197 heritage projects nationwide have been awarded funding under the scheme, which supports the continuing conservation and development of Irish heritage […]
1 May 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a traffic collision in Dunmanway, Co. Cork. At approximately 4pm a 6-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was struck by a bus on the Bantry Road at Tonafora, Dunmanway. He was taken from the scene by Ambulance to Cork University Hospital. […]
29 April 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The newly formed Cork Education & Training Board (Cork ETB) welcomes the publication of The Special Report by the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) into the Internal Control of County Cork Vocational Education Committee in 2011. A number of issues of concern were highlighted in this Report relating […]
27 April 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Editorial An annual issue There are a number of chestnuts in Cork news circles: the need for a Cork to Dublin direct flight, the debt at Cork Airport, and the slowness of the Cork to Limerick road. Well, in relation to the latter a joint statement was […]
27 April 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP and member of the European Parliaments Tourism Taskforce Deirdre Clune has appealed to bus unions to call off their planned strike action beginning on the May Bank holiday weekend. MEP Clune has said the planned strike will hurt our fragile tourist industry which is […]
27 April 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Clonakilty born Declan Murphy, who founded the just-one charity (www.just-one.org), 11 years ago which works to promote educational opportunities for disadvantaged and marginalised chiildren in Nepal at community level, has expressed his shock and sadness at the devastation caused by the earthquake there at the weekend. Declan who […]
14 April 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@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 […]
10 April 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ibec Cork, the group that represents many businesses, today met with the local government review committee and called for the boundary of Cork city to be extended to incorporate the suburbs to create a local authority area of 200,000 people. Additionally, the group warned that now is not […]
2 April 2015 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD Sandra McLellan has stated that the best way that the people of Cork can support the striking Dunnes Stores workers is by refusing to pass the picket. Deputy McLellan said; “The people of Cork should show their solidarity with the Dunnes Stores workers tomorrow by […]