Cork could be “Foodie Town of Ireland”

By Tom Collins 12th May 2014 tom@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil local election candidate for Cork City South Central, Tom O’Driscoll, has called on the people of Cork to vote for the City in the ‘Foodie Town of Ireland’ awards, which will determine the top town in Ireland to eat out. Mr O’Driscoll commented: “Cork is one... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, FIANNA FAIL, NEWS, POLITICS

12th May, 2014

Award for Cork PR firm

12th May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie H+A Marketing + PR continued its successful run of awards with a win at the 2014 All Ireland Marketing (AIM) Awards. The agency beat stiff competition to win the Best PR Campaign Award at the AIM Awards for the hugely successful ‘Orla Kiely for Kenco Millicano’ campaign... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS

8th May, 2014

[Audio] Lord Mayors Civic Awards

8th May 2014, Thursday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Lord Mayor’s annual Civic awards took place in City Hall last night. Cllr Catherine Clancy (Labour) presented six Corkconians with awards for their contributions to to the City. Among the names were Camogie Expert Mary Newman Journalist Deirdre O’Reilly for her charity work Declan Kidney... Read More

NEWS

7th May, 2014

[Audio] Cork based Political movement launches Manifesto

7th May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A National political movement, headquartered in Cork, has launched it’s Manifesto. The “Peoples Convention” or C-P-P-C is based on Douglas Street in the City and is running 18 candidates in the Local elections on May 23rd. Of those 7 are running in Cork City and 6 in... Read More

NEWS

7th May, 2014

AUDIO: Blackrock Village upgrade begins

7th May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Work has begun on the €1.5m renewal of Blackrock village in Cork Harbour. Located 13 minutes drive from Cork City Centre it will have a large plaza area; with steps down to the water, and new street lamps, and benches. The wall of the old Ursaline Convent... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

7th May, 2014

Abnormal Load Charleville to Limerick

7th May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An Garda Síochána wish to advise road users that over the coming weeks, beginning today, it’s anticipated that delays will occur along the N20 between Charleville, Co. Cork and Limerick City, and along the N69 from Limerick City to Foynes, Co. Limerick. This is due to the... Read More

NEWS

6th May, 2014

Promotion for Cork based EMC boss

6th May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie EMC, the US multinational that employs more than 3,000 people in Ireland, has announced that company executive, Bob Savage, will now lead EMC’s Centre of Excellence (COE) operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa. In his new role, Savage will oversee two key strategic COEs in Russia and... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS

5th May, 2014

‘Fix my Pothole’ website needed says County Council Candidate

5th May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An election candidate for Cork County Council has a great surname; Desmond. She is running in an area where there has been a long serving Councillors with that name! The new candidate Mary-Rose Desmond belongs to Fianna Fail, where as the outgoing Paul Desmond is a stalwart of... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, FIANNA FAIL, LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS

2nd May, 2014

[Video] 350 new jobs in VoxPro Cork

2nd May 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Good news for jobseekers in Cork. VoxPro in Mahon and Blackrock are recruiting. 350 positions in their call and contact centre. VoxPro handles phone calls and internet based customer support for organisations including Google and Nest. The Taoiseach visited the Cork headquartered company earlier to make the... Read More

FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS

2nd May, 2014

[Audio] Arts Minister inspects new Skibbereen Arts Centre

2nd May 2014 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan was in Skibbereen, West Cork this afternoon to view construction works on the new building for the West Cork Arts Centre, due to open in 2 months time. Established 20 years ago the WCAC has outgrown it’s current... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT, FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS

2nd May, 2014

[Audio] New CEO for Cork Business Association

3rd May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Cork Business Association has a new C-E-O. Lawrence Owens is taking over from Donal Healy; who recently retired having served seven years. Lawrence has a long association with CBA, and has been involved with the retail trade for over 35 years: working his way up in Roches... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS

2nd May, 2014

[Audio] Cork schools to benefit from Summer works scheme

2nd May 2014 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie 48 schools in Cork will benefit from refurbishment works over the summer being paid for by the Department of Education. It’s called the “Summer works scheme”. The schools which will benefit from Round 2 have been announced. The majority of work will be refurbishing toilets and roofs. The... Read More

LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS