A contractor for the replacement of water mains in three North Cork villages has been confirmed. The contract was awarded to Cork-based Sorensons Engineering with Lombardstown, Glantane and Laharn to receive the new water mains after it was deemed to be more cost effective to replace the 4km piping in the areas rather than continue to incur expenditure in repairs.
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Mick Hannigan, 60, is one of the organisers of the IndieCork Film Festival. He lives in Sunday’s Well and has one daughter, Tessa (10).
“It’s my daughter’s shouting that wakes me every morning. Tessa, who is 10, starts school at 8.20am, so she’s up at 7.15am. I’ll hear ‘I want breakfast dad’ and then I’m up to make her something and...
Simplified modelled view of proposed layout of southern three vilage, Does not show proposed development in Kilcronan, school buildings or new planting.
An oral hearing for a multi-million euro town development between Blarney and Blackpool will get underway later this month.
Cork County Council lodged plans for the strategic development zone (SDZ), which will...
Support is to be sought from the head of the Irish Insurance Federation for the introduction of a levy of €10 on every house insurance policy to assist flooded homeowners who cannot avail of cover. It is estimated that such a charge would generate a fund in the region of €20m per annum.
It comes after a Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht heard last month...
Cork school children Colin McGregor, Scott Relihan and Jakub Boybay with Amicus waiter Margaret Wallace practice the Eat The Street project at the launch of the Cork Midsummer Festival programme 2013. Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Cork’s best-known restaurants are bracing themselves for some of their harshest critics yet… local school...
More than 600 hard-up Cork students have signed up to a 'sugar daddy' dating service to pay their way through college.
Some 642 women claiming to be undergraduates from UCC and Cork Institute of Technology have joined SeekingArrangement.com, a US-based online dating website which pairs off attractive young women with wealthy, and usually much older, international businessmen.
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An organisation campaigning for a more humane penal system has expressed concern that the practice of ‘slopping out’ will continue at Cork Prison until the new facility is built.
Construction work on a new building immediately adjacent to the existing facility is expected to commence in October. It will house 275 prisoners and have a maximum capacity for 310.
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More than 100 prisoners were out on temporary release from Cork Prison on a daily basis last year, the second highest average in the country. According to statistics released in a report from the Irish Prison Service (IPS) this week, 134 prisoners were on temporary release in Cork, while there were 165 on average from Mountjoy.
The report revealed that in the 252-bed capacity prison in...
Joseph Blake and Murphy from Trace Missing Persons Ireland, who outlined that while children are often warned against getting into cars with strangers, it’s important to talk openly on other strategies to minimise risks.
An organisation that uses trained cadaver dogs to help search for the remains of missing people has called for more education for children...
Scoil Mhuire Kanturk perform as part of the Composers In the Classroom programme as part of the Cork International Choral Festival at the Millenium Hall, Cork City Hall. Picture: Clare Keogh
Plans are already in place to grow the Cork International Choral Festival further next year, after the event attracted 35,000 people into the region last week. The prestigious event...
Cork-based photographer Ivan Begala snapped up the top prize in a wedding photography competition organised by national wedding magazine Confetti.
The Italian photographer, who has been living in Ireland for seven years, has had his work published in local and national newspapers and recently decided to fully embrace his passion, opening his own photographic studio in the IDA Business...
Breaking the Guinness world record for the largest Ring a Ring o' Roses ever made turned out to be child’s play for a Cork charity. Earlier this week, 1,010 people took part in the Cork City Hospitals Children's Club (CCHCC) organised event at Wilton Shopping Centre, by joining hands and completing a full circle of the building while singing the famed nursery rhyme. Those who took part...
Gail Henry, RTE Lyric FM, Sophie Creaner and adjudicator Richard Deering.
A Cork musician has won the senior instrumental award in a prestigious national competition. Sophie Creaner scooped the top prize in her category at the Sligo Feis Ceoil, which was sponsored by RTÉ Lyric FM.
It comes after the Cobh clarinet player joined an elite succession of actors...
The 65th anniversary of the Palestinian "Day of the Catastrophe" will be marked next week in Cork. Irish travel writer, Dervla Murphy and Palestinian activist and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Project, Mousa Abu Maria, will take part in a public conversation on Wednesday, May 15th at the Gresham Metropole Hotel from 8pm for Nakba Day- meaning 'catastrophe'- to commemorate...
Model and make-up artist Liz Desmond (28) is through to the third round of The X Factor. She lives in Aherla with her grandfather, Larry.
“I usually get up about 9am. When I was working in Brown Thomas I needed to be up much earlier as I had to fight early morning traffic. I’m an absolute carb junkie, and I commit ‘carbacide’ every morning with skull loaf- not...
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