SAILING: Summer Events Volvo Cork Week 2016

23 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Volvo Cork Week 2016, takes place from July 10th to 15th, and primarily attracts sailors for the quality of its racing. Held on a biennial basis, Volvo Cork Week is a Grand Prix sailing event and is renowned, worldwide, for exciting and challenging racing. Bringing boats together... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

Gardai renew appeal for witnesses to Glanmire Filling Station hold-up

22 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Gardaí investigating a robbery that occurred at a service station in Brooklodge, Glanmire, Coy Cork on Monday 18th April 2016 at approximately 7.15pm wish to renew their appeal for witnesses. A lone male arrived at the scene driving a wine coloured Fiat Punto, partial registration 98-D. He then... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

Camden Fort Meagher hosts ‘1916 Commemoration weekend’ 22nd to 24th April

22 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie An array of events are planned for the weekend of 22nd – 24th April on the historic Camden Fort Meagher to commemorate 1916. The unique 1916 weekend which was launched recently by the Mayor of Cork County Cllr John Paul O‘Shea will feature daily concerts, seminars, re-enactments,... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

Is your Cork building linked to the 1916 Easter Rising?

22 April 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie The County of Cork has a wealth of historically important sites – places with associated events and people – that have collectively shaped the County’s heritage as a whole, particularly with regard to the defining years of the Irish Nation. Throughout our past, many of these sites, or... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

Applications invited for UCC’s IGNITE programme for 2017

22 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Follow in the footsteps of IGNITE alumni AnaBio Technologies Ltd, PunditArena, KonnectAgain and others The IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme Information Evening yesterday offered anyone interested in starting a business the opportunity to find out more about options and supports available; to learn about the nine month... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, BUSINESS, EDUCATION, NEWS

22nd April, 2016

The potential of the Gearagh and of the Upper Lee Valley must be realised

22 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada stated that the Gearagh natural amenity in the Upper Lee Valley must be realised and developed as a local amenity, a tourist attraction and as a research site. She made the comments following a meeting with the ESB at Iniscarra earlier this... Read More

AREA: NORTH CORK, AREA: WEST CORK, POLITICS, SINN FÉIN

22nd April, 2016

BAI sponsors Film In Cork’s Production Club

22 April 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Film In Cork is pleased to announce that the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is sponsoring its monthly Production Club training initiative. The announcement coincided with the latest Production Club event, which took place in RTÉ Cork on Thursday, April 21st. One evening each month, Film In Cork’s... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS

22nd April, 2016

Cork Business Association welcomes ‘CORE’

22 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork Business Association has welcomed the official launch of the exciting new City centre partnership CORE initiative.One of the key purposes of CORE is to bring together all stakeholders and task them to work collectively on the revitalisation of Cork City centre. The Cork Business Association has... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

Four Cork Companies selected for Google’s Adopt a Startup Programme

22 April 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Four Cork companies, Carefolk, GlowDx, Ourobotics and Sothic Bioscience were this week selected by Google Ireland to participate in its Adopt a Startup programme. These high potential Irish Startups will now receive 12 weeks of mentoring from dedicated Google support teams. The teams will work with the four... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

“Shear” delight as Wayne Lloyd Hair partners with The Mercy

22 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Today was a good hair day for the Mercy University Hospital as leading Cork salon, Wayne Lloyd Hair, announced details of a partnership that will see stylists visit the hospital on a regular basis to treat patients to a “new do”. The charity partnership will see the team... Read More

AREA: CORK CITY, HEALTH, NEWS

22nd April, 2016

University College Cork wants to create create “the largest online Viking collection”

22 April 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie As hit TV drama series Vikings returns for a gripping fourth season with Jonathan Rhys Meyers set to join its cast for the fifth, the World-Tree Project has been launched at University College Cork, aiming to create the largest online collection about the Vikings. A “world-first attempt to... Read More

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22nd April, 2016

Programme announced for 2016 West Cork Literary Festival

22 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie When: July 17th – 23rd, Bantry, West Cork. Zadie Smith, John Banville, Gloria Steinhem and Louis de Bernières are just some of the guests expected at the renowned West Cork Literary Festival which runs at various venues in Bantry, West Cork, from July 17th to 23rd. Poetry... Read More

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