23 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Essential works are continuing in West Cork today with an interruption to Drinagh Water Supply expected into the evening. Irish Water and Cork County Council are working to resolve an issue with the treatment process at the Drinagh Water Treatment Plant as quickly as possible. The works, which... Read More
22 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Green Party Local Area Representative for the Bantry Bay Area, Liz Coakley Wakefield, has welcomed the announcement that AIB is to reverse its decision to move to cashless branches at 70 locations across the country. The decision, which was set to have impacted services in Castletownbere will not... Read More
21 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie AIB have announced in the last couple of days their intention to remove cash services, including ATMs and cash drop safes, from 70 towns across Ireland, or 42% of its entire branch network. This unilateral action by a bank 68% owned by the state, who made €645m in... Read More
20 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Baltimore RNLI were called out to provide a medical evacuation earlier this afternoon from Cape Clear Island in West Cork. The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 4.25pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide a medical evacuation for a man on the... Read More
16 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Irish Water and Cork County Council advise customers in Dunmanway that essential night-time restrictions are required this weekend to help reservoir levels recover Irish Water, working in partnership with Cork County Council, advise customers in Dunmanway that essential night-time water restrictions are required tonight and tomorrow night to... Read More
14 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Increased temperatures & additional demand adding to supply challenges Irish Water is appealing to the people of Clonakilty to be mindful of their water usage over the coming weeks as the increased domestic and commercial demand during the busy summer period is being exacerbated by warm weather and... Read More
13 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie As they steadily bounce back to normal activity after the Covid pandemic, Kinsale & District Lions Club have, like the rest of us, already weathered and adapted to many unprecedented changes. However, the Club is now gearing up for some of their biggest and most positive changes yet,... Read More
13 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie ALDI’s new store on Inchydoney Road, Clonakilty will open on 25th August To celebrate the upcoming opening of the new ALDI Clonakilty store next month, the ALDI Cork store staff have teamed up with Green Belt and local landowners Stephen Kiely and Colleen Moore to plant almost 82,000... Read More
13 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Clean Coasts and Fáilte Ireland are teaming up in Cork for a Wild Atlantic Way clean-up event on July 16th. Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development’s role is to support the long-term sustainable growth in the economic, social, cultural, and environmental contribution of tourism to Ireland. By joining... Read More
12 July 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie West Cork householders are being urged to bring their electrical and electronic waste to a set of free collection days to help the county meet recycling targets which have increased since the first lockdown in 2020. The events, hosted by WEEE Ireland with support from Cork County Council,... Read More
12 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Bantry General Hospital Management, having considered the high inpatient levels of Covid-19, has taken the difficult decision to continue with visiting restrictions in order to protect our patients, their relatives and our staff. Visiting in the main hospital will be facilitated on compassionate grounds only, to be agreed... Read More
12 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Some Govt agency should be tasked with monitoring alleged price gouging by service providers West Cork Senator Tim Lombard has backed the call of his colleague, Fine Gael TD Bernard Durkan, for a government agency to be tasked with monitoring price increases across utility and service providers. Senator... Read More