Colder and darker Government Buildings will save electricity

7 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Cabinet has today approved a suite of energy-efficiency measures across the public sector. All public sector bodies will, from September, take a leading role in lowering their energy consumption and costs – as a first step in the new Autumn Reduce Your Use energy efficiency campaign. The... Read More

CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIRONMENT, NEWS

7th September, 2022

Two Rolex watches, designer footware, and cash – seized by Gardai

7 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Criminal Assets Bureau Search Operation, Kerry and Cork Divisions The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and Kerry Gardaí conducted a search operation in the Kerry and Cork divisions on Wednesday 7th September 2022. The operation was conducted by CAB Officers and Kerry Gardaí supported by the Regional Armed Response Unit, the... Read More

NEWS

7th September, 2022

Bus Éireann running service for Cork passengers travelling to the Garth Brooks concerts in Croke Park

7 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Bus Éireann is running special services from Cork city, Fermoy and Mitchelstown to Busáras in Dublin for those attending the Garth Brooks concerts on September 9/10/11/16/17 – Services will operate from Cork’s Parnell Place Bus Station at 12.00hrs on the day of the concerts, returning from Busáras in... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, AREA: NORTH CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

7th September, 2022

Seán Hales and Dick Barrett to be remembered 100 years on

7 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie With the Micheal Collins Centenary events recently concluded, Dúchas Clonakilty Heritage will hold another public talk on two other prominent West Corkmen from the tragic year of 1922 on 18th November at the local GAA Pavilion. At the outset of the Decade of Centenaries, the local history and... Read More

AREA: WEST CORK, EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

6th September, 2022

SPORT: Crosshaven GAA Chairman wins latest Community Spirit Award

6 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Dedicated clubman, John Middleton Jr. from Crosshaven GAA is the latest winner of the Cork International Hotel Community Spirit Award. John is the current Chairman and has been a member of Crosshaven GAA for more than 30 years, mentoring and coaching countless aspiring young sports stars during that... Read More

NEWS, SPORT

6th September, 2022

Volunteer Drivers urgently needed by Irish Cancer Society in Cork

6 September 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Irish Cancer Society is urgently seeking Cork-based Volunteer Drivers to help bring cancer patients to and from their treatments. Volunteer Drivers located across the county are being sought to drive patients to hospitals in Cork. This vital service is completely free for patients. Last year, the Irish... Read More

HEALTH, NEWS

6th September, 2022

EDUCATION POLITICS: School bus problems roll on

6 September 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork East TD Seán Sherlock has called on the “Fianna Fáil led Department of Education” to fast track appeals from parents on school transport appeals as many parents were left with no seat this week, with no sign of additional capacity on the horizon. “The idea that Dublin... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, LABOUR, NEWS, POLITICS

6th September, 2022

As Ulster Bank closes, some customers are discovering their local ‘Credit Union’

6 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork Credit Unions have reported a ‘flurry of current account openings’ over the last few months as customers switch from banks – although there are savings caps in many credit unions of €15,000-30,000 so for many it is not a full banking alternative Eleven Credit Unions across Cork... Read More

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

6th September, 2022

Continued business expansion for Cork Entrepreneur Pat Phelan as “Sisu Clinic” opens in Castleknock

6 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Existing locations include the Douglas Road, and Oliver Plunkett Street – now Sisu have opened their 15th Irish clinic, which is in Castleknock, Dublin Sisu Clinic, a doctor-led aesthetic medicine destination offering a comprehensive range of non-surgical beauty treatments, opened the doors to its 15th Irish clinic this... Read More

BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, HEALTH, NEWS

6th September, 2022

West Cork towns Kinsale and Bantry are ‘littered’ according to latest Irish Business Against Litter survey

6 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The annual nationwide survey by business group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) of beaches and harbours shows Cork Harbour at Blackrock Castle and White Bay beach again ‘heavily littered’ at the foot of the rankings of 33 areas surveyed. Kinsale has fallen to ‘littered’ alongside Bantry and Ballinacurra,... Read More

AREA: WEST CORK, NEWS

5th September, 2022

VIDEO: Spike Island Literary Festival 2022 draws to a close

5 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Spike Island has hosted its inaugural Spike Island Literary Festival which took place from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September. Dedicated to the popular theme of crime writing, the festival had a unique island location with a dark history of four prisons over 400 years – the perfect... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, AREA: SOUTH CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

5th September, 2022

€250 million investment for Midleton Distillery

5 September 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The new distillery will be situated on a 55-acre site adjacent and connected to the world-famous Midleton Distillery Irish Distillers, the producer of some of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys, has today announced it will invest 250 million euro to build a new distillery in... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, NEWS