13 May 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork city centre is to host a one-off outdoor banquet for 400 people as part of this summer’s Cork Midsummer Festival in June, as a result of a unique collaboration among the city’s businesses and restaurants. An initiative of the Cork City Centre Forum, which was established last... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
11 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Event registration for National Heritage Week 2015 is now open and this year we want to shine a light on Ireland’s Industrial and Design Heritage. So if you would like to include your local heritage project in this year’s programme, please register it now for National Heritage... Read More
11 May 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Entrepreneur, journalist, broadcaster and Women on Air founder Margaret E Ward will address the next it@Cork ‘Women in Tech’ event taking place in the Clarion Hotel, Cork on 20 May 2015. The quarterly lecture series aims to support and promote female role models and leaders in business and... Read More
11 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie For more than 200 years the Munster Agricultural Society has showcased the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture to the people of Munster at the Cork Summer Show. This year, Ireland’s longest running agri-show will showcase the evolution of our agricultural heritage with an incredible... Read More
11 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The community organisation, Grange-Frankfield Partnership, has organised an additional fixture to its highly acclaimed biannual Vernon Mount Lecture Series, with a special lecture to honour the memory of Sir Hugh Lane, who was born in Ballybrack House on Donnybrook Hill, in November 1875. Lane was gifted with... Read More
9 May 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The board of the Cork ETB (Cork Education and Training Board) has approved the introduction of the Making of Protected Disclosures policy for the organisation. This policy enables all employees of Cork ETB, contractors, suppliers, former employees and other stakeholders to report any serious and sensitive concerns and... Read More
9 May 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Deirdre Kiely FCPA, is the newly elected Vice-President of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA Ireland). Ms Kiely took office at the Annual General Meeting of Members on April 29th held at the Institute’s headquarters at 17 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. Originally from Mallow,... Read More
9 May 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Students from the Department of Tourism & Hospitality in Cork Institute of Technology showcased over 60 new business ideas at an event held in the Department. The Showcase was opened by the Department Head, Mr Adrian Gregan who said he was extremely impressed by the depth and range... Read More
5 May 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Researchers from The Nimbus Centre at Cork Institute of Technology have been successful in winning funding for two prestigious ‘Horizon 2020’ Projects in the ‘ICT for Energy Efficient Buildings’ call 2015. They will receive approximately €1.5M from the EU funding program as part of the development of two... Read More