World’s longest, toughest and most prestigious powerboat race comes to Cork this July

5 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Venture Cup – the world’s longest, toughest and most prestigious powerboat race – is coming to Cork this July. Today the Vector Martini boat will be arriving to Cork for an exclusive one day event. Reaching speeds of over 100kmph, the Vector Martini crew will be... Read More

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4th April, 2016

West Cork TD congratulates Drimoleague native on appointment as RTÉ Director General

4 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The first female TD in West Cork congratulates the first female Director General of RTÉ Cork South West Fianna Fáil TD Margaret Murphy O’Mahony has offered her congratulations to Dee Forbes on her appointment as the new Director General of RTÉ. The Drimoleague native is also the... Read More

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4th April, 2016

Property prices in Cork City grow at fastest pace in 10 years – up 10% year on year

4 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Renewed price momentum in the first three months of the year indicates that the property market is set to rebound in 2016 but Dublin is likely to lag behind the rest of the country according to the latest house price survey from MyHome.ie in association with Davy.... Read More

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4th April, 2016

Baltimore sailor Cliodhna Connolly on victorious UCD Sailing Team in 2016 Colours Sailing Championship

4 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie On Saturday, UCD Sailing Team, powered by Ireland’s leading independent renewable energy provider Energia, won the 2016 Colours Sailing Championships in Dun Laoghaire. Baltimore sailor Cliodhna Connolly was among the victorious crew. The annual UCD Vs TCD Colours Championship was held in Dun Laoghaire on Saturday 2nd April.... Read More

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4th April, 2016

2016 Programme announced for West Cork Literary Festival

4 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Zadie Smith, John Banville, Christina Lamb 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 is also well represented this year with T.S.... Read More

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4th April, 2016

€22,500 for Ballingeary, Co Cork flood relief

4 April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork County Cllr Michael Creed has today (Monday) welcomed the confirmation that the OPW have allocated €22,500 to Cork County Council to undertake minor flood relief works in Ballingeary. Commenting on the allocation Cllr Creed said: “I warmly welcome this much needed funding for flood relief works... Read More

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4th April, 2016

UCC hailed for ‘world-class research’ in EU ranking

4 April 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie University College Cork (UCC) scored top marks across the five core areas ranked in the world’s most comprehensive ranking system. The EU sponsored U-Multirank published today (April 4) judges university performance on 31 indicators marked from ‘A’ (very good) to ‘E’ (weak). The areas ranked include Teaching, Research,... Read More

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4th April, 2016

Former Cork Prison to be location for a feature film on the 1983 breakout from the Maze

4 April 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie MAZE is inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP MAZE high security prison, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II. An Irish-Swedish co-production, MAZE has production funding from The Irish Film... Read More

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4th April, 2016

Nightly resurfacing of N40 South Ring Road begins tonight

4 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Works to resurface the N40 South Ring Road Cork between Junction 6, Kinsale Rd Interchange and Junction 9, Bloomfield, have commenced this evening. Works will entail resurfacing the section of the N40 eastbound carriageway between Vernon Mount and the Bloomfield interchange. 4th April to 30th April 2016. •... Read More

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4th April, 2016

Cork Accountants attend CPA Ireland Annual Conference

4th April 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie More than 200 delegates attended the Annual Conference of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (CPA Ireland) recently which celebrated the 90th Anniversary of the Institute with the theme “90 Years Accounting for Business”. The conference, which took place in Croke Park, was chaired by... Read More

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4th April, 2016

Cork Airport sees 10.5% rise in passenger numbers for the first three months of the year.

4 April 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie The figures are revelaed as the airport announced it has a total of 12 new routes operating or scheduled to start in the upcoming months, including a Madrid link which will launch in June. Iberia Express will fly out of the hub starting 18 June with two weekly... Read More

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4th April, 2016

MAREI and NTR Foundation Collaborate on A Fully Integrated ‘Low Carbon Future’ Research Programme for Ireland

4 April 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Ireland’s research centre for marine and renewable energy, MaREI, has secured €750,000 in funding from the NTR Foundation. The philanthropic investment will be used to identify and exploit the opportunities for Ireland, the economy and SMEs in relation to how we best meet our future energy requirements as... Read More

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