1 November 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Bandon Library has launched a new addition to its service that will enable borrowers to access the library outside of the usual hours of operation. ‘My Open Library’ offers extended opening hours to library members on a self-service basis outside of normal opening hours, seven days per week,... Read More
28 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Bantry General Hospital – Visiting restrictions Due to an infection outbreak and on the advice of the Hospital Outbreak Control Team, Bantry General Hospital Management wishes to advise that visiting has been suspended, effective from today, 28th October. All visiting arrangements will be reviewed weekly. The following exceptions... Read More
28 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie After a bumper season of excitement, drama, blisteringly quick stages and all manner of weather thrown into the mix, its fair to say that the 2022 IPS Packaging Southern 4 Rally Championship has come back with a bang after a lengthy time away. After the enforced absence, this... Read More
26 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Department of Environment urged to fully engage with all stakeholders offering solutions to support Ireland’s future security of energy supply The Department of Environment must defer the decommissioning of the Kinsale Gas Pipeline following its endorsement of liquified natural gas (LNG) and floating storage regasification units (FSRUs). That’s... Read More
26 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Leap Scarecrow Festival – 24th October – 6th November 2022 This Halloween the annual Leap Scarecrow Festival returns with a ghoulish programme of events. Now in its 7th year the West Cork festival was started by Rita Ryan in 2015 who wanted some craic agus ceol in the... Read More
25 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Think all candles are made equal? Think again. Recently founded in Kinsale, Co Cork, Wizard & Grace Essential Oil candles handcraft one of the most sustainable and eco-conscious candles available on the market. The start-up was set up purely because of the lack of genuinely healthy natural candle... Read More
23 October 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Cork International Choral Festival is now accepting entries from Irish composers for the 2023 Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition. Judged by a panel of experts and composers of international renown, the competition awards a cash prize (kindly donated by the Ó Ríada family) and the Seán Ó... Read More
20 October 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Social Democrats will have a free to all, public event this Saturday, October 22nd, in Cork City’s Metropole Hotel on MacCurtain Street. Starting at 11am, local TD Holly Cairns (Cork South West) along with Catherine Murphy TD & Róisín Shortall TD will be present at a public... Read More
20 October 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Organiser of the annual Michael Collins Béal na Bláth commenation is honoured One of the people responsible for keeping Michael Collins Legacy alive over the decades has received the October Cork Person of the Month award. Dermot Collins from Kinsale, one of the longest serving committee members and... Read More
20 October 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A large parcel of farmland at the most southerly tip of the Wild Atlantic Way is one of three Cork lots going under the virtual hammer in an online property auction later this month. Perched on top of cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the pastures are less than... Read More
19 October 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Free Event Takes Place 27th October at Maritime Hotel in Bantry To help inspire women to “overcome their natural reticence to put themselves out there in business, and teach them how to network effectively to reach their business goals”, Network Ireland West Cork (NIWC) is hosting a free... Read More
18 October 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Met Éireann have issued a Status Orange Rainfall Warning which comes into effect at 10pm this evening and remains in effect until Midnight on Wednesday. Heavy rain is forecast for tonight, throughout Wednesday and into Wednesday night with the possibility of thundery downpours which could lead to localised... Read More
