29th March 2014, Saturday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The surgeon who separated the conjoined Benhaffaff twins has been honoured in Cork. Doctor Edward Kiely is a Consultant Neo-natal and Paediatric Surgeon in London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and flew back yesterday to collect the inaugural “Spirit of Cork” trophy. The Benhaffaf twins – now... Read More
28th March 2014, Friday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The surgeon who separated the conjoined Benhaffaff twins is being honoured in Cork tonight Doctor Edward Kiely was born in Cork, and has been a Consultant Neonatal and Paediatric Surgeon in London for the past three decades at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The... Read More
28th March 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Students in UCC yesterday had the chance to inspect a new ambulance designed specially for Children. It’s called BUMBLEance, which is a play on words because it’s painted bright yellow like a bumble bee. The idea if to make a child feel like a “queen bee” or... Read More
27th March 2014, Thursday Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Musgrave Park, the Cork home to Munster Rugby, is to be renamed Irish Independent Park, in a naming rights agreement with Independent News & Media. The partnership agreement which will come into effect next season is for a period of ten years. The naming rights sponsorship agreement will... Read More
27th March 2014 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The programme has been unveiled for this years Cork Choral Festival, which is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary Established in 1954 the festival is just over a month away, and will take place from a Wednesday to a Sunday; April 30th to Sunday May 4th. It will open... Read More
24th March 2014, Monday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County and City Councils have announced a partnership allowing the two separate local authority’s to “speak with one voice” on a number of issues. It’s called “Cork Inc.” and the goal is to attract business, tourism, investment and people. Over the past 12 months a... Read More
24th March 2014, Monday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Plans to invite the Pope to visit Cork have taken another step forward A Former Deputy Lord Mayor of the City proposed the invitation two weeks ago, and an internal committee – the corporate policy group – have now approved the idea in principal. Fine Gael... Read More
24th March 2014, Monday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A Cork City Councillor has suggested the establishment of a DN- database for dogs! It’s to try and trace the owners of pets which are fouling pavements, and green areas. Under the Litter Pollution Act 1997 it is an offence to allow a dog under your... Read More
24th March 2014, Monday By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie A fundraising concert for a well known Cork Journalist will take place in City Hall on Easter Sunday. 43 year old Deirdre O’Reilly reported for the Evening Echo but suffered a massive stroke in December and needs intensive rehabilitation. She’s been left with paralysis of the right... Read More
24th March 2014, Monday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie There are calls for more Garda FOOT PATROLS in Cork City Centre. It follows the daytime assault of a man on Winthrop Street over the weekend. The victim – understood to be in his 30s – was assaulted by a group of youths around 4.30 on... Read More
21st March 2014. Friday By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Rugby’s Donncha O’Callaghan has visited his former primary school in Bishopstown to talk about efforts being made by UNICEF to eradicate polio in the next 4 years. The Munster and Ireland lock is a UNICEF ambassador and recently returned from a four-day fact finding trip to Nigeria. O’Callaghan was... Read More
20th March 2014 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Murphy’s Stout and Beamish Stout are pleased to announce a multi-year partnership with the Cork GAA Senior Hurling and Football teams under the title of ‘Proud Partner’. The relationship between the two stouts and Cork GAA initially goes back as far as 1891, when Murphy’s founder James J... Read More