Tourism Conference to grow passenger numbers at Cork Airport

29 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Developing new routes to Germany, Scandinavia, Northern Italy and France was the focus of a round table conference at Inchydoney on Thursday with the Minister for tourism Paschal Donohue among those in attendance. The event which was attended by the management at Cork Airport as well as... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, AREA: WEST CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

29th March, 2015

Cork Sinn Fein outline 1916 commemoration plans

29 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin TD for Cork North Central Jonathan O’Brien has stated that bringing about the republic envisaged in the 1916 proclamation remains unfinished business. Deputy O’Brien was speaking at an event in the Metropole Hotel this week to mark the Cork City launch of Sinn Féin’s National... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS, POLITICS, SINN FÉIN

29th March, 2015

Large Prize Bonds winner in Cork

29 March 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie This week’s Prize Bond Star prize of €50,000.00 goes to lucky Prize Bond number HF643024 held in County Cork. The lucky bond was purchased in 2007. There were over 7,000 prizes awarded in this week’s Prize Bond Draw, amounting to over €420,000. In addition to a €1 MILLION... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

29th March, 2015

Cork singer songwriter to support new Louis Walsh band

29 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth Cork singer songwriter Danny Battles has been chosen to play support on the tour by Louis Walsh’s new band HomeTown. Danny will play the eight venues in the tour over Easter. The tour plays Ennis on Good Friday, 3 April, Kilkenny 4 April, Easter Sunday in Castlebar 5... Read More

NEWS

29th March, 2015

Ireland to lose out on new EU Touring Visa potential

29 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central), has said that Ireland will miss out on the benefits of a new proposed EU Touring Visa as we are not a member of the Schengen area. “The European Commission has proposed a new type of visa, the Touring... Read More

FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS

29th March, 2015

Cork City Council is ‘workplace of the year’

29 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The winners of the inaugural Smarter Travel Awards were announced this week with the Cork City Council being announced as business travel workplace of the year. Partners of the Smarter Travel Workplaces and Smarter Travel Campus programme from around the country submitted entries to the awards competition... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, NEWS

29th March, 2015

Cork’s Red FM reach agreement with GAA for additional reporting rights.

29 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork’s Red FM is delighted has secured additional access to, and reporting rights for all Cork GAA matches. The station had previously been permitted to enter locally hosted National League and Munster Championship fixtures, but will now receive full press accreditation for all games involving Cork GAA. The... Read More

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26th March, 2015

Cork town suffering after Boundary Committee split main street in two

26 March 2015 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The ‘artificial’ division of Carrigaline in two sections, for electoral reasons, is causing problems in the provision of services, especially roadworks; that’s according to a number of County Councillors. At Monday’s bi-weekly meeting of Cork County Council, many elected representatives asked the Chief Executive about the day to... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, FIANNA FAIL, FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS, SOCIALIST PARTY

25th March, 2015

Town Councils are not coming back

25 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie For years there were calls in Carrigaline and other boom areas for a “Town Council”; a form of local Government that was closest to the people. Those hopes were dashed last year when Town Councils were abolished. There had been 80 nationally, of which 12 were in... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: SOUTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, FIANNA FAIL, FINE GAEL, LABOUR, NEWS, NON PARTY, POLITICS

24th March, 2015

72% cuts to LEADER funding affecting Co Cork

24 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie It has emerged that Cork communities are being hit with savage cuts amounting to nearly 72% under the LEADER programme. Fianna Fail TD in Co Cork Michael Moynihan has described it as yet another attack on Cork communities at a time when they can least afford it.... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: SOUTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, BUSINESS, FIANNA FAIL, NEWS, POLITICS

24th March, 2015

Tourism Ireland to market Cork in Cardiff

24 March 2015 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland South MEP and member of the EU Tourism Taskforce, Deirdre Clune, has welcomed a decision by Tourism Ireland to co-fund a campaign to market Cork in Cardiff, in advance of the beginning of the new Cork- Cardiff air route in June, 2015. “Representatives from Tourism Ireland... Read More

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24th March, 2015

The biggest cause of death in Cork is cancer

24 March 2015 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Life Assurance company Irish Life, today revealed its annual claims data which shows that cancer was the biggest cause of Life Insurance and Specified Illness Cover claims in Cork in 2014, with more than €9.3 million paid out. The data details the illnesses and conditions that led to... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, AREA: EAST CORK, AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: SOUTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, HEALTH