ESB opens massive battery bank in East Cork to store wind electricity

15 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie ESB has today opened a major battery plant at Aghada, Co Cork, which will add 19MW (38MWh) of fast-acting energy storage to help provide grid stability and deliver more renewables on Ireland’s electricity system. The projects are ESB’s first in a pipeline to deliver grid-scale battery technology at... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIRONMENT, NEWS

15th July, 2022

Ballyhass to benefit from a more secure and reliable water supply

15 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Securing the water supply in Cork remains a vital focus for Irish Water with works due to begin in Ballyhass in mid-July Working in partnership with Cork County Council, Irish Water will replace over 2 kilometres (km) of old water mains in Ballyhass, Co Cork with new, modern... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, HEALTH, NEWS

15th July, 2022

Historic Town Maps for Macroom & Millstreet

15 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Historic Town Maps for the towns of Macroom and Millstreet were recently launched in Macroom’s Town Hall and Millstreet’s Carnegie Hall respectively. The project was led by Cork County Council’s County Archaeologist with significant input by Tidy Towns representatives and local historians from each town. In Macroom, local... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

15th July, 2022

Cork Teen is Double Technovation Award winner

15 July 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie A Cork teen has followed up her 2021 Technovation award by creating a brand new app that has bagged her the Junior Regional Award for Europe at Technovation, a global competition for girls to create apps to solve problems within communities. The Climattain app aims to inform, encourage... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, AREA: SOUTH CORK, EDUCATION, NEWS

15th July, 2022

FREE TO USE: €40,000 multi-use games area for basketball and soccer opens at Camden, Crosshaven

15 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A new multi-use games area has been officially opened in Crosshaven, County Cork. The ribbon was cut on the outdoor facility for young people by the Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Danny Collins. The €40,000 multi-use games area provides basketball and soccer facilities free of charge... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, HEALTH, NEWS

15th July, 2022

A Review of Local Flower Shop Cork

15 July 2022 By Roger Kennedy roger@TheCork.ie The giving of flowers to express emotion has a long history stretching back to the ancient civilisations of Greece, Rome, China, and Egypt. In the Middle Ages, the English and the French assigned meaning to each of the flowers in their bouquets – and in Victorian times, when... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

14th July, 2022

Ireland sees massive biodiversity loss linked to Climate Change

14 July 2022 By Tom O’Sullivan tom@TheCork.ie MEP Grace O’Sullivan warns of need for urgent action to tackle biodiversity loss at UN Summit in New York Ireland’s biodiversity loss is accelerating at unprecedented speeds, show recent reports. At the High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development in New York this week (13-15 July), Green Party... Read More

CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIRONMENT, GREEN PARTY, NEWS, POLITICS

14th July, 2022

Rooftop solar panels could produce 22% of all Cork’s household electricity

14 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie 131,533 homes in Cork have space for ten solar panels (3.4KW) – Homeowners could reduce electricity bills by €450 per year New research has shown the significant potential for Cork from the use of rooftop solar panels. The study by MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for... Read More

CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIRONMENT, NEWS

14th July, 2022

WEST CORK NEWS: Steps taken to ensure Clonakilty doesn’t run out of drinking water

14 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Increased temperatures & additional demand adding to supply challenges Irish Water is appealing to the people of Clonakilty to be mindful of their water usage over the coming weeks as the increased domestic and commercial demand during the busy summer period is being exacerbated by warm weather and... Read More

AREA: WEST CORK, CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, NEWS

14th July, 2022

SAILING: Volvo Cork Week is a ‘plastic free event’

14 July 2022 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Volvo Cork Week has introduced significant sustainability measures this year as part of the Royal Cork Yacht Club’s commitment to leading the way in Ireland on low-impact events and ocean health. Many events across Ireland have adopted strong recycling measures but organisers of Volvo Cork Week have gone... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, CLIMATE CHANGE / ENVIRONMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS, SPORT

14th July, 2022

New €50m Croí Cónaithe (Towns) Fund to Refurbish Vacant properties, Increase Home Ownership and Revitalise Communities across County Cork

14 July 2022 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien T.D., today launched a new €50m Croí Cónaithe (Towns) Fund which will support bringing vacant and underused buildings in Cork’s towns and villages back into residential use. Many areas of towns and villages face... Read More

NEWS

14th July, 2022

Cork cooks invited to join “most imaginative meal-makers” search

14 July 2022 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie In a competition open to all the family, home cooks throughout Cork and beyond are being invited to join a search to find Ireland’s most imaginative meal-makers. Leading the search is well-known television cook, Donal Skehan, supported by banana importers Fyffes, whose previous collaborations led to the discovery... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS