Cork Person of the Year to be announced this afternoon

15 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie This afternoon at a Gala Awards Lunch at the Rochestown Park Hotel, the Cork Person or Persons of the Year will be announced. The winner will be chosen from the Cork Persons of the Month selected over 2015. Some 250 guests will attend the awards lunch, representing... Read More

15th January, 2016

Ballyhea Bondholder protestors to meet Central Bank Governor

15 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The new Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, Phillip Lane, has agreed to meet with a delegation from the Cork based ‘Ballyhea Says No’ group to discuss the issues arising from their long-running campaign (they have marched every week since March 6th 2011, 254 weeks and... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, BUSINESS, NEWS, NON PARTY, POLITICS

15th January, 2016

Why has the Cork Events Centre project been delayed? – asks Cork City Cllr Ted Tynan

15 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Simon Coveney’s portfolio as Minister relates to Agriculture and the Marine, but as Cork’s only Senior Minister (the other ‘Ministers’ are Junior Ministers) Deputy Coveney is often looked upon as Corks’ ‘direct-line to Government’. Coveney has been quoted as blaming the delayed commencement of work on the South... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, ENTERTAINMENT, FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS, WORKERS PARTY

14th January, 2016

Problems fixed on Belgooly water supply

14 January 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie West Cork based Labour T.D. Michael McCarthy has welcomed news that progress has been made to resolve water supply issues in Belgooly. Residents in the area have had to endure problems with the water supply for many years Speaking to TheCork.ie the Labour TD said “I have campaigned... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS

14th January, 2016

Cork City FC confirm pre-season fixtures

14 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A number of pre-season fixtures have now been officially confirmed, as John Caulfield’s side look to get the build-up to their 2016 campaign underway. First up for City is a Munster Senior Cup tie against Rockmount, followed by a number of friendly fixtures in the lead up to... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS, SPORT

14th January, 2016

Cookie And The Vaudevilles at the Everyman Theatre Cork

14 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Entertainment Update ‘Cookie And The Vaudevilles Live at the Everyman Theatre, Cork’ Saturday 6th February , 8.00PM Following the success of their debut original album “Riches to Rags” in late 2014, Cookie And The Vaudevilles have spent the last year touring music venues, theatres and festivals around Ireland... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

14th January, 2016

World’s oldest Yacht Club (Royal Cork Yacht Club) holds AGM

14 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The 295th (yes that’s right!) Annual General Meeting of the Royal Cork Yacht Club will be held in the clubhouse, Crosshaven, Co Cork on Monday 18 January 2016 at 8pm. History The predecessor of the present day Royal Cork Yacht Club, was the Water Club of the Cork... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

14th January, 2016

Cork Sinn Fein TD blames Fine Gael, Labour AND Fianna Fail for health service failings

14 January 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Sinn Féin TD Sandra McLellan has criticised the Government for “legitimising the two-tier health system that was the legacy of Fianna Fáil in power”. The Cork East deputy spoke of the unnecessary pain inflicted on patients, while Sinn Féin have plotted a costed pathway to universal healthcare.... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, NEWS, POLITICS, SINN FÉIN

14th January, 2016

Northside For Business Awards 2016

14 January 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie More than 43 businesses from across the northside of Cork City have been nominated for the Northside For Business Awards. At the Northside for Business Awards event in the Kiln at Heineken Brewery Cork, businesses were shortlisted across a number of categories including Retail, Service, Hospitality, New... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, BUSINESS, NEWS

14th January, 2016

Government failures on children’s rights highlighted by UN – says East Cork TD Sandra McLellan

14 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Speaking today on the UN Committee on the Rights of a Child in Geneva, where Ireland’s record on children’s rights was criticised, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Children, Sandra McLellan TD (Youghal) said: “With nearly 6,000 child protection cases awaiting assignment to social workers in Ireland, it comes as... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, NEWS, POLITICS, SINN FÉIN

14th January, 2016

Is there food poverty in Cork?

14 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance Cork City Cllr Mick Barry this morning said that the economic recovery is bypassing hundreds of thousands of families after it was announced by Lidl and the Bia Food Initiative that Lidl plan to donate 100,000 meals in 2016 to 56 charities helping families living in... Read More

HEALTH, NEWS, POLITICS, SOCIALIST PARTY

14th January, 2016

Cllr Alan Coleman calls for existing model to be used to offer flood insurance

14 January 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Independent Cork South West Candidate Cllr Alan Coleman has called for the Government to use an existing model to force Insurance companies to offer flood insurance cover to those that are refused such cover. Cllr Coleman said “We already have the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) which... Read More

AREA: WEST CORK, NEWS, NON PARTY, POLITICS