24-hour Gym comes to Ballincollig, Cork

10 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anytime Fitness, the world’s largest and fastest-growing 24-hour fitness franchise, opened its fourth club in Ireland on Monday July 6th in Ballincollig, Cork. This is the first new gym to open in Ireland since lockdown and has been designed around social distancing guidelines. This includes not just the... Read More

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10th July, 2020

Kinsale Gas field closes after 42 years

10 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The final commercial volumes of indigenous Irish gas flowed through the Inch terminal in County Cork last week as PSE Kinsale Energy Limited (KEL) ceased production after 42 years of service and almost two trillion cubic feet of natural gas – double the original reserve estimate. Ireland’s only... Read More

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9th July, 2020

WEST CORK NEWS: Bandon Girl Guide summits Carrauntoohil

9 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A local Girl Guide successfully completed a virtual summit of Carrauntoohil – Ireland’s highest mountain – during lockdown Laura McSweeney (25) from Bandon, a graduate of University College Cork who is currently studying forensic science, had been considering climbing Carrauntoohil the past few years. She hadn’t got around... Read More

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9th July, 2020

THINGS TO SEE IN CORK CITY: Maritime Exhibition at Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place

9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie It’s called ‘Statio Bene’ and draws together over forty artworks describing the traditions and historic views of Cork Harbour. The exhibition features artworks describing Cork’s global connectedness, its harbour and river, shipping and leisure, defence, and mobility of people. Addressing the maritime traditions of Cork and the south... Read More

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9th July, 2020

RNLI: Lifeboat performs medical evacuation from West Cork Island

10 July 2020, 8pm By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Baltimore RNLI were called out to a medical evacuation earlier this evening from East Skeam Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork. The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 5.25pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide medical assistance and evacuation... Read More

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9th July, 2020

Cork County Council has a ‘writer in residence’ and he has unviled 2 new ‘Virtual Writing Collectives’

9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Council Library & Arts Service is proud to present two new Virtual Writing Collectives, developed to support networking, creative exchange and collaboration among writers across Cork County. The project is led and facilitated by Cork County Writer In Residence Matthew Geden. Beginning on July 29th and... Read More

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9th July, 2020

Community Champions donation to Cork Food Charities

9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Eoin McCuirc , Chair of Cork Simon Community and Siobhán O’Dowd, Co-ordinator of Ballyphehane Togher CDP have been Cork City’s Community Champions during Covid 19, a national programme co-ordinated by Irish Rural Link and The Wheel. They were part of the Government’s Community Call and Cork City Council’s... Read More

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9th July, 2020

They want to build a FLOATING windfarm 35km from Kinsale

9 July 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The Emerald project would be located 35km from the coast of Ireland An Irish developer of sustainable marine projects is taking the first steps in establishing a floating offshore wind farm that will start to harness the enormous wind potential of the Celtic Sea. The proposed development, which... Read More

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8th July, 2020

Cyclists versus motor traffic – too many near misses says @horganp of @labour

8 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie https://twitter.com/righttobikeit/status/1281307105182527492 Following yet another number of days where cyclists highlighted their near misses with traffic in Cork city and suburbs, via videos on social media (example above), Labour’s Local Area Representative Peter Horgan has called for the immediate rollout of signage that details the minimum passing distance. Mr... Read More

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8th July, 2020

Cork TD calls for enlightenment period in public housing construction

8 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Speaking on the Labour Party motion on rent and mortgage debt, Cork East TD Seán Sherlock called for an enlightenment period in regard to public housing construction under the new Government, Said Deputy Sherlock: “We are now in what I call a dark age in terms of public... Read More

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8th July, 2020

€1.6 million in funding for Community Groups

8 July 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork County Council has recently allocated over €1.6million in funding to a range of community, voluntary and sporting organisations through the Council’s annual Community Fund Scheme. Each year, the scheme contributes financial support to hundreds of community and voluntary organisations around the County. Administered by the Council’s 8... Read More

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8th July, 2020

New road construction unearths old Carrigaline Pottery

8 July 2020By Tom Collinstom@TheCork.ie ‘Carrigaline Pottery’ used to be famous, but in the 1970s the company suffered from financial difficulties going first into receivership, and then closing in 1979, in more recent years the famous Shanagarry based pottery expert Stephen Pearce had a presence in the former factory but that too closed. Today, the... Read More

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