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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1st April 2014 By Tom Collins & Bryan Smyth tom@TheCork.ie & bryan@TheCork.ie The 8-month campaign to restore a “full bus service” to the Glen, Blackpool and Dublin Hill has succeeded! More than 40 residents met last night in the Glen Resource Centre. They voted by an overwhelming majority to accept proposals from the National Transport... Read More
30th April 2014, Wednesday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Irish Naval Service have taken delivery of a new vessel. The 50 million euro LE. Samuel Beckett is around 300 feet in length, and was built at a shipyard in Devon, England. She weighs almost 2-thousand tonnes, and can hold 54 people. The Samuel Beckett... Read More