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22nd December, 2015

Happy Christmas from Cork City Council

22 December 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie With Christmas now upon us, City Council staff are entering into the Christmas spirit. Chief among them is Denis Crowley, of the City Council’s Recreation, Amenity & Culture Directorate, who in the true festive spirit has gone to exceptional trouble to decorate his work van. It’s certainly an... Read More
AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS
22nd December, 2015

‘Voluntary’ school payments will come to an end – says West Cork Fine Gael TD Jim Daly

22 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Government will increase grants for schools Fine Gael Cork South West TD, Jim Daly, who also is Vice Chairman of the Oireachtas Education Committee, has welcomed the news that the practise of primary schools demanding cash payments from parents will come to an end. “This is an issue... Read More
AREA: WEST CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS
21st December, 2015

60 new Jobs in Newsweaver

21 December 2015 By Tom Collins Tom@TheCork.ie One of Ireland’s most innovative high-tech companies, based in Cork, is to create 60 new jobs over the next two years to support the expansion of its global customer base. Newsweaver’s workforce will grow from 80 to 140, with a concentration on high-value jobs in research and development,... Read More
AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, NEWS
21st December, 2015

Alan Bennett signs with Cork City FC

21 December 2015, 11am By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Alan Bennett, who put pen to paper on a two-year deal, told CorkCityFC.ie that he can’t wait for pre-season to start: “I’m very happy. I really enjoyed last year and I am really looking forward to next season. I’ve said loads of times how much the club... Read More
NEWS, SPORT
21st December, 2015

Cork Workers Party Rep unhappy with Labour Party over leaders comments

21 December 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork City Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that efforts by Joan Burton to portray the Labour Party as the social conscience of the coalition government and a brake on Fine Gael’s low-tax, cheap labour economy are a “pathetic attempt to distance Labour from five years of... Read More
AREA: CORK CITY, FINE GAEL, LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS, WORKERS PARTY
21st December, 2015

A busy Christmas for Cork Samaratians

21 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Samaritans have had their busiest year to date answering 67,105 calls in the last 12 months. Details of the increase in use of Samaritans service were revealed in the 2014-2015 Impact Report covering Samaritans’ work in Ireland, which was launched in Dublin, on Wednesday the 16th... Read More
AREA: CORK CITY, AREA: EAST CORK, AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: SOUTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, HEALTH, NEWS
20th December, 2015

POLITICS: ‘Ballyhea Says No’ campaign group in Co Cork marks its 250th week of protest

20 December 2015 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Something significant happened in Cork last Sunday. In the small village of Ballyhea – on the main Cork-Limerick Road – at 10.30am the 250th ‘Ballyhea Says No’ march took place. Organiser Diarmuid O’Flynn sent us a statement. Statement from ‘Ballyhea Says No’ organiser Diarmuid O’Flynn  Last Sunday we... Read More
AREA: NORTH CORK, NEWS, NON PARTY, POLITICS
19th December, 2015

1500 burglaries in Cork in 2015

18 December 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Following the publication this week of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) third Quarterly Household Survey, householders are being urged to remain on their guard in the run up to the Christmas period. The advice comes from PhoneWatch, Ireland’s leading provider of monitored home safety systems. In the 12... Read More
NEWS
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