4 September 2017 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The International Association for Plant Biotechnology Congress 2018 (IAPB 2018) was officially launched at an event in University College Cork today. The President of the IAPB is Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich who is based in UCC. The congress will take place at the Dublin Convention Centre from 19th... Read More
4 September 2017, 10pm By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie At a special meeting of Cork County Council, elected members were briefed in full on the current status of the ongoing deliberations on the proposed alteration of the boundary of Cork City Council. The 2pm meeting was held ‘in committee’, meaing that no media or public were... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie What: Politician using Skype When: Wednesdays 8pm Where: Politician may be in Dublin, constituents will be in West Cork It will be recalled that in the year 2000 a Dublin Cllr – Eoin Costello – launched an ‘online clinic’. It was the height of sophistication using an implementation of... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The second Cork Comedy Festival will take place 21st-24th September. Comedy heavyweights confirmed for the festival include: PJ Gallagher; Deirdre O’Kane; Kevin McAleer; Neil Delamere; Eleanor Tiernan; Karl Spain; Bernard O’Shea; Colin Murphy; Barry Murphy; Colm O’Regan; Gearoid Farrelly; Fred Cooke; Bec Hill; Joanne McNally; Alison Spittle;... Read More
4 September 2017 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Two lucky players from Cork and Carlow woke up over the weekend to the news that they are the latest to strike it lucky with high Lotto wins. The National Lottery are advising players in the South and South East to check their tickets with the news that... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Nine travel agents from leading Spanish Agency, Viajes El Corte Ingles, who have an extensive network of more than 500 branches throughout Spain, are in Ireland’s Ancient East to learn more about the brand with a view to selling more packages to Ireland. This is just one... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Declan Hurley has welcomed the announcements of six projects from Cork County Council shortlisted for the Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards 2017. The projects shortlisted are: the Living Space Project Mallow; www.YourCouncil.ie; Dunmanway Community Garden; the Physicality... Read More
4 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Institute of Technology, which incorporates CIT Cork School of Music, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design and the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI), will hold its Registration and Open Evenings for Continuing Education Programmes (Weekend & Evening Courses) from September 5th. For CIT, Continuing... Read More
3 September 2017 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie A group of seven international journalists and bloggers with a combined audience reach of 3.5 million have arrived today for a showcase of all that can be found on the doorstep of Cork Airport. The journalists – hailing from Canada, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and India... Read More
2 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Fota Wildlife Park have announced that one of their Asian lionesses has given birth to her first litter of cubs in what is also a first for Fota Wildlife Park. The three as yet unsexed Asian lion cubs, were born on the 13th August to first time... Read More
2 September 2017 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Baltimore RNLI were called out this morning (Saturday 2 September) to a tug with three people on board which had broken down north of Drowlaun Point off Sherkin Island in West Cork. The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 9.45am after they were alerted by... Read More
2 September 2017, 11am By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie A man in his 80s has died, and a man in his 40s has been injured, in a house fire in Buttevant, Co. Cork. Gardaí and fire services attended the scene of a house fire at Knockbarry Cottages, at approximately 9.30pm last night. The fire was brought... Read More