Trade in those chocolate HobNobs (190 calories for two) for 20 green grapes (70 calories) and you'll save a whopping 600 calories a week.
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Cork players, top row, from left to right, Pamela Mackey, Denise Cronin, captain Anna Geary and Katrina Mackey, front row, Michelle Browne, left, and Eimear O’Sullivan, along with Jim Barry, MD of Barry Group, who own Costcutter, at the Boardwalk, Cork, where Costcutter were announced as the new sponsor of the Cork County Camogie Teams. Picture credit: Diarmuid Greene /...
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about...
Watergain, Ballincollig won three of the five prizes in the Best Garden Products category at the Hardware DIY Home and Garden Trade Show at the Citywest Exhibition Centre, Dublin recently.
The company won a Highly Commended award for the Golden Gark, a multi-purpose gardening tool as well as two Commended awards, for Barrow Boy, a space saving product for storing wheelbarrows and The...
Microsoft have launched a new tablet designed to take on the big boys. The Microsoft Surface RT device comes loaded with Windows 8, a sturdy build and, most impressively a full version of Microsoft Office included in the price.
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Are you tired of circling the office for a parking space every day? If so then a new initiative could provide you with the information you need to change your travel habits for the better.
Mix Your Mode Mobility Initiative March 2013 aims to encourage travel by more sustainable and healthier methods such as walking and cycling, using public transport (bus, train, park & ride) and...
Carmakers Volkswagen recognised Cork's John Beecher as one of its star performers at a recent awards event in Druids Glen.
...Cork Midsummer Festival has announced the appointment of Lorraine Maye in the new position of Festival Manager. Lorraine will take up the position in early March, replacing former Executive Producer Eithne Egan, who has recently taken up a new position as Director of Operations and Communications at Music Generation.
Lorraine Maye graduated with a BA in Economics and Sociological &...
Deirdre Hilliard, Just Food.
With 96% of Irish people reporting an increase in their appetite for comfort food during the recent frosty weather, over half of respondents, (58%) in a recent survey favoured healthy alternatives such as soup.
Although traditional comfort foods such as pasta and toasted sandwiches proved popular, the results showed that 81% would eat...
In a recent survey of professionals by the coffee company Nespresso, 77% of senior managers reported a preference for coffee over tea. The survey of 2,000 workers also revealed that fiercely ambitious people consumed 1.5 times more coffee than those who deemed themselves less ambitious.
Fitzgerald & Partners Accountants have developed a new guide to starting your own business aimed at entrepreneurs and SMEs. The free publication highlights many of the practical points that require consideration before you start your own business and answers some of the most common questions entrepreneurs ask. To order your copy contact Fitzgerald & Partners, Kinsale on 021 4774500 or...
Not so long ago a brilliant, but soon-to-be over-used phrase was coined; “there’s an app for that”. While there are thousands of applications designed to help in every situation we never knew we faced, there is one that is unlike any other. RunPee is an application that tells the user the best time to use the toilet whilst at the cinema, so they avoid missing...
Michael Mulcahy CEO, LIBA, Caroline White, Easy Living Furniture and William Cuddy, President LIBA. Picture, Tony O'Connell Photography.
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The White Star Line embarkation pier in Cobh - a bleak reminder of all those who emigrated from Cobh.
Following the world-wide commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, a number of local businesses in Cobh have launched a new initiative to develop the Titanic connection on an ongoing basis.
Cobh is synonymous with not only the Titanic...
The Castle Café kitchen is hoping to reduce its dependence on expensive herbs and the associated air miles by using hydroponics, a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil.
The team laid their first crop of mint into their hydroponics system at the end of January and hope to use the system to grow a wide variety of herbs, salad leaves and...
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