10 October 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Gardaí arrested – and have since released – a man in relation to suspected pension fraud amounting to in excess of €500,000 over a 30 year period. A file is now being prepared for the DPP. As part of a joint investigation between An Garda Síochána and the... Read More
10 October 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie “This latest stabbing took place in the middle of the day, on a busy Cork Street… We need an increased presence of Gardaí on our streets and a taskforce to deal with knife crime in particular.” Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North Central, Padraig O’Sullivan, has condemned in... Read More
10 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Aldi’s suppliers’ great year across national and international product award programmes has continued at the 2020 Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Awards, where four of Aldi’s Cork suppliers took home 5 renowned titles. 40 of Aldi’s quality products received awards in total. Co. Cork’s winners were: GOLD for Duneen Dairy Greek... Read More
10 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Cultural Companions creates local networks of like-minded people interested in arts, heritage and culture who can accompany each other to events. It operates by bringing together like-minded people that meet up regularly to go out either with one other person or as part of a small group.... Read More
10 October 2020 By Simon Whittaker simon@TheCork.ie Reviews are very important in this day and age. Our online reputation often depends on them. Businesses like trustanalytica.com are built to help people get and improve their online reputation. If you don’t have a good online reputation, then your business will lose a lot of custom. It... Read More
9 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork County Library Branches to benefit are Charleville receiving €20,707, Cobh €16,135, Fermoy €15,000, Skibbereen €41,031, Youghal €10,000 and Library Information and Communication Technologies upgrades which will benefit from €8,210 support. The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD, recently announced funding of €3million to support... Read More
10 October 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork City FC are delighted to announce Freight Force International as the front of shirt sponsor for women’s first team. Following a raffle for the sponsorship opportunity which had over 30 entrants, Freight Force International were pulled out as the lucky winners. The draw took place live on... Read More
9 October 2020 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Cork University Hospital (CUH) has been exceptionally busy in recent days. Hospital management have requested that, where appropriate, the public contact their GP in the first instance and explore all other options available to them prior to attending the Emergency Department if their needs are not urgent. In... Read More
9 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Blarney Castle in Blarney Town, Cork, Ireland houses the Blarney Stone, but visitor numbers have fallen The owner of one of Ireland’s most successful tourist attractions has called for increased supports for the industry amid a collapse in visitor numbers. Sir Charles Colthurst, 10th Baronet whose family owns... Read More
9 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork City, with four other cities in the Irish Network of Learning Cities went live last week in a five city joint initiative to promote learning across the cities, the city regions and the island of Ireland. In 2019, the Lord Mayors of Cork, Dublin and Belfast and... Read More
8 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Sports clubs of all kinds within Co Cork and beyond are the focus of a new club funding initiative just launched under the title Texaco Support for Sport for which a fund of €130,000 has been set aside for distribution on a twenty-six, county-by-county basis, with successful clubs... Read More
7 October 2020 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Cork Airport has echoed calls for the Irish Government to quickly approve the adoption of rapid turnaround, low cost, scalable, pre-departure testing for red zone countries to let safe air travel restart with confidence and save the thousands of jobs dependent on tourism, hospitality and aviation. Speaking today... Read More