Top 10 Best Tourist Spots to Visit in Cork in 2021

12 June 2021 By Roger L. Jones roger@TheCork.ie Thinking about visiting Ireland soon? We’ve come up with a list of the top ten best tourist spots to visit in Cork in 2021. The second-largest city of Ireland has so much to offer tourists, from gift-giving stones to grand castles and cheese-making water buffalo. Keep reading... Read More

ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

11th June, 2021

MOTORSPORT: Cork racing driver Kayleigh ‘Kayls’ Cole competing at Brands Hatch this weekend

11 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie 17-year old Kayleigh Cole (a.k.a. Kayls) is all set for a triple header at the famous Brands Hatch Race Circuit (South East of London) this weekend, where she will be competing in Swallow hills F1000 Championship biggest grid of the year. The Ballincollig, Cork native has not been... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS, SPORT

11th June, 2021

PHOTOS: Exhibition of student work from Crawford College of Art and Design (part of Munster Technological University)

11 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie An exhibition entitled ‘Subject To Change’, will be open to the public from Saturday, 12 June 2021 to Tuesday, 15 June 2021, from 11am to 7pm in the Sharman Crawford Street campus.

AREA: CORK CITY, EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

11th June, 2021

LIVE VIDEO: Mac Curtain and MacSwiney added to ‘Roll of Honorary Citizens’ by current Lord Mayor of Cork City

11 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Watch video here Today at 3.00 p.m. the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Joe Kavanagh, will host a Special Ceremony online to add the names of Tomás Mac Curtain and Terence MacSwiney to the Roll of Honorary Citizens of Cork City. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a traditional special... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

11th June, 2021

Trigon Hotels Cork fundraise for Cope Foundation

11 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie News in brief

HEALTH, NEWS

11th June, 2021

East Cork Mum creates down syndrome teaching aid

11 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sally Flanagan has developed a teaching resource called ABC Communicate with Me to help her two-year-old daughter Sadie with Down Syndrome. ABC Communicate With Me is a box of visual aids to help and support the development of language and communication. Sally says “Sadie’s communication has greatly improved... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, BUSINESS, EDUCATION, NEWS

11th June, 2021

Lord Mayor makes courtesy visit to Bishop’s Palace

11 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Lord Mayor of Cork and the Lady Mayoress make annual courtesy visit to the Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, and his wife The Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Joe Kavanagh, together with the Lady Mayoress, Mrs Stephanie Kavanagh, made the Lord Mayor of Cork’s customary courtesy call... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS, POLITICS

10th June, 2021

Climate Action Bill threatens rural Ireland says #WestCorkTD

10 June 2021 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Politics Deputy Michael Collins and his colleagues from the Rural Independent Group, have today challenged government TDs to step forward and explain why they are allowing a deeply flawed and damaging Climate Action Bill to be “rammed through the Oireachtas”, without any consideration for practical solutions or opposition... Read More

AREA: WEST CORK, NEWS, NON PARTY, POLITICS

10th June, 2021

Lord Mayor opens 64 new homes and turns sod for another 62 homes in Cork City

10 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Joe Kavanagh, today officially opened 64 new homes and also turned the sod on two further housing developments of 62 more homes for Cork City, due to be constructed in the coming months. Nine new homes were opened in the heart of the... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, NEWS

10th June, 2021

The #WestCork mystery: Disappearing sponges in Lough Hyne

10 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A team led by Professor of Marine Biology James Bell from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and Professor Rob McAllen from University College Cork has been studying the loss of possibly thousands of sponges from the underwater cliffs inside Lough Hyne (Loch Oighinn). The... Read More

NEWS

10th June, 2021

Skibbereen #WestCork and Fermoy #NorthCork are winners and runners up at the .IE Digital Town Awards 2021

10 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Skibbereen’s The Ludgate Hub has won the Digital Changemaker award at the inaugural .IE Digital Town Awards 2021. The result was announced today, Thursday 10 June, at a virtual ceremony attended by Minister Damien English, Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail at the Department of Enterprise,... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, NEWS

10th June, 2021

100,000 Vaccinations administered at Pairc Uí Chaoimh and Cork City Hall

10 June 2021 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The South/South West Hospital Group and Cork Kerry Community Healthcare are pleased to announce that the two vaccination centres in Cork City at Pairc Uí Chaoimh and Cork City Hall have administered in excess of 100,000 vaccinations between them. Pairc Uí Chaoimh commenced administering vaccinations on 25th March... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, HEALTH, NEWS