SOCCER: Cork City v Dundalk

10 February 2018, Saturday By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork City and Dundalk meet in the President’s Cup for the third year in a row on Sunday, in the curtain-raiser to the 2018 SSE Airtricity League season. City have won the fixture in each of the last two years, with both of those games taking place... Read More

AREA: SOUTH CORK, NEWS, SPORT

9th February, 2018

GOODWILL MISSION: Cork County Mayor Declan Hurley travels to Massachusetts to sign economic partnership agreement

9 February 2018 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurley has signed an economic partnership agreement with Quincy City in Massachusetts. The aim of the agreement is to promote business, education and tourism links between both regions and to capitalise on the recently established transatlantic route operated by Norwegian... Read More

AREA: EAST CORK, AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: SOUTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, BUSINESS, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

9th February, 2018

How will BREXIT affect Cork?

9 February 2018 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has called on all political parties, community groups, businesses and statutory bodies in Cork to work together to help negate the effects of Brexit on the county. The Ireland South MEP was speaking at the launch of her latest discussion document on... Read More

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

9th February, 2018

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

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