IRISH WATER: invest in new watermain for Kerry Pike

9 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Irish Water and Cork County Council plan to carry out work to connect a new watermain in the Kerry Pike area of Co Cork from February 15-16. The connection of this new watermain is to facilitate enhanced security of supply for new and existing developments in the area,... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, NEWS

8th February, 2018

HR NEWS: PAYE Employment better than bogus self-employment

8 February 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Solidarity TD Mick Barry will today launch a Bill aimed at outlawing “bogus self-employment”. The bill will be launched at a Solidarity/People Before Profit press conference at Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin at 10am. Bogus self-employment involves employers forcing workers to surrender direct PAYE employment in favour of self-employment including... Read More

NEWS, POLITICS, SOCIALIST PARTY

8th February, 2018

SPORT: CBC present Rugby caps to next generation

8 February 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie

NEWS, SPORT

8th February, 2018

Tourism Ireland board meets in Cork

8 February 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The Montenotte Hotel in Cork was the venue for the February board meeting of Tourism Ireland, which took place today (Thursday, 8 February). The board members took the opportunity to meet with local tourism operators prior to the meeting, to discuss the upcoming 2018 tourism season and the extensive... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

8th February, 2018

POLITICS: Cork TD ‘secures review’ of 220/220X Ballincollig bus route

8 February 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Fianna Fáil TD, Aindrias Moynihan has said that Bus Éireann has confirmed to him that a review of the 220/220X bus service that links Ballincollig to Cork City will take place in the short term with a view to increasing capacity and frequency. Deputy Moynihan was commenting after... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, AREA: SOUTH CORK, NEWS, POLITICS

7th February, 2018

3,280 new .ie domains registered in Cork in 2017

7 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The figure is up 16 percent on the previous year, according to new IEDR report 3,280 new .ie domains were registered in Cork in 2017, according to new figures in the latest edition of the dot ie Domain Profile Report, published today by IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the... Read More

BUSINESS, NEWS

7th February, 2018

NORTH CORK FARMING: Cork ‘CAP 2020 Public Consultation’ to take place in Charleville Park Hotel

7 February 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Creed Announces CAP 2020 Consultation process “Vital Opportunity to hear the views of Irish Citizens on a future CAP” Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD, today announced his intention to launch a public consultation process on the future of the CAP post 2020. The... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, FINE GAEL, NEWS, POLITICS

6th February, 2018

Cork Convention Bureau attends Brexit tourism meeting in London

6 February 2018 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin, has been visiting London, where he met with the Tourism Ireland team, as well as with senior Irish tourism representatives – including Seamus Heaney of Cork Convention Bureau. They discussed the implications of the decision by the UK to... Read More

BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

6th February, 2018

CORK ROAD PROJECTS UPDATE: Dunkettle Interchange, N40, and N8

6 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Dunkettle Interchange Site Investigation Works are well underway on the Dunkettle Interchange Site. Site Clearance Works have progressed slightly quicker than anticipated and we now hope to complete under this heading by the end of February 2018. Over the next few weeks the Works will become increasingly visible... Read More

NEWS

6th February, 2018

CORK HR NEWS: BioPharmaChem Ireland Addresses CIPD Cork Event on the STEM Talent Crisis

6 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie The War for Talent 2.0, particularly in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) sectors, will be discussed at a CIPD Southern Region breakfast briefing sponsored by Fastnet – The Talent Group on 7 February 2018 at the Clayton Hotel Cork City. Director of BioPharmachem Ireland, Matt Moran,... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, NEWS

5th February, 2018

BUSINESS: Phone systems company Conversation Piece celebrates 40 years

5 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Opened in Cork in the 1970s as a telephone shop, Conversation Piece has grown into one of the top business phone systems providers in Ireland from its headquarters in Cork and its second site in Dublin. The company is pleased to announce it has been in business for... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, NEWS

5th February, 2018

NEWS: Raffeen Dump Closes

5 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Raffeen Civic Amenity Site – previously known as ‘Raffeen Dump’, then ‘Raffeen Landfill’ – closes for maintenance today. The closure is expected to last 3 weeks. Raffeen is located 10 km south-east of Cork City, or 2km south-west of Monkstown. The landfilling of waste at former quarry took... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, NEWS