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Booking is brisk for the wide range of workshops on offer this July at the 2012 West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry. Offering a vast range of subjects for prospective writers and those already engaged in the process, the five day and three day workshops will span...
Local seafood produce and traditional breakfast meats were among the main items whetting the appetite of food industry buyers in Amsterdam, at a special trade exhibition for Cork food producers staged in the Dutch capital last week.
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Siubhán McCarthy (43) manages the Ocean to City festival. The Donegal native lives on Southern Road with her husband Paul, children, Lorna (16) and Gavin (15) and their miniature pinscher cross, Cooper.
I wake up at 6.45am because that’s when my husband Paul gets up but I’ll try and stay in bed until 7.30am. I’m quite positive- although my...
Touchstone Pharmacy in Blackrock Hall Primary Care Centre will host a free Asthma Clinic on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 from 10am to 4pm. A specialist Respiratory Nurse, provided by the Asthma Society of Ireland, will be present, offering an ideal opportunity for asthma sufferers to book a session with her and ask questions regarding their condition, their medication, and how they should be...
"I’m getting a couple of things about the Treaty through the door, but you might as well be reading The Sun! I feel I’ll have to vote Yes or else I’ll lose my benefits. You have Michael Noonan threatening that if we don’t vote yes, he will give a terrible budget. In other words, hammer the poor people again. It’s all scaremongering."
John Donavan...
In a scathing attack on Sinn Féin, the Lord Mayor of Cork City has condemned what he described as “pouting” over City Hall’s spending on attending conferences, insisting that slashing the funding for such trips would damage Cork’s economic health rather than aid it.
An angry Cllr Terry Shannon said the overseas trips had been crucial in raising Cork’...
A fatal house fire in Mahon last year, believed at the time to be caused by a petrol bomb, was the result of a lit candle, an inquest heard yesterday. Both Helena O’Dwyer, 25, and her five year-old nephew, Ryan O’Dwyer-Hayes perished when the blaze ripped through the house on Nutley Avenue in Mahon in the early hours of Easter Sunday last year. miraculously, six other family...
An educational dance programme promoting culture and fitness will be operational in Cork this September. Imagined by Pete Hill of Beatz, a marketing agency which places cultural events into schools, businesses, and festivals nationwide, the workshop would look into bringing dances from across the globe to both Cork primary and secondary schools. A global percussionist drummer for the past 19...
The founding director of a major performing arts festival in Cork for people with disabilities used the launch of the 2012 event to make an urgent appeal for corporate support for the initiative.
Speaking at the launch of COPE Foundation’s Irish Performing Arts Festival in City Hall this week, Eoin Nash said that a corporate partner was being sought for the organisation’s...
It was the record drugs haul that had the drama, twists, characters and stunning setting usually only seen in a fictional Hollywood blockbusters.`
But now plans are underway to bring a film crew to remote Dunlough Bay in Co. Cork to make a movie based on the foiled €440m cocaine smuggling plot.
Cork-born film-maker Colin Carroll has just completed a screenplay based on the...
Another famous Dub has taken up residence in the rebel county: Bonnie the red panda moved from Dublin Zoo to Fota Wildlife Park this week. Born on June 27th last year, Bonnie moved to the Fota to pair up with Pete who relocated to the East Cork park from Germany 18 months ago but has been living on his own for the last couple of months following the death of his partner Binthy.
Willie...
Ballincollig residents have reacted angrily to illegal works on a 100 year-old blacksmith cottage in the area.
Two planning applications for the dwelling, which is located in the Maglin town land, off the Killnaglory Road, were refused in 2009 after the applicant lodged submissions to demolish the building and construct a storey-and-a-half property instead. However, according to local...
Cork will be showcased as a destination for international film makers at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Irish Pavilion, which is the focal point for the national film industry at the French event, will this year be pushing Cork as a location, according to Cork Screen Commissioner Niall Mahoney.
“We are linking up with the Irish Film board, so there is a more joined up...
Cork will take centre stage at this year’s Midsummer Festival, with the line-up inspired by the landscape and people of the city. Launched yesterday evening, Thursday, the festival will open on Midsummer night, Thursday, June 21st, with a performance of Fabulous Beast’s show Rian, a music and dance collaboration featuring music by Liam Ó Maonlaí, inspired in part by...
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