By Michael Mulcahy It’s the final week and the countdown to Saturday February 8th when we the voters go to cast our vote for whichever candidates we want to represent us in Dáil Éireann. In my opinion this election campaign has been full of contradictions, with Fine Gael criticising Fianna Fáil for a range…
Niamh Parker has been announced as the CEO of Beacon AI, an Irish software company which has developed AI technology Solutions for the global privacy industry. Serial entrepreneur Parker is co-founder of the organisation and is heading up it’s expansion into the US market to meet the corporate demand for Privacy Solutions since the…
The Metropole Hotel is hosting the Cork County Cooking Championships on Monday 3rd of February. The County Cooking Championships launched late last year and sees chefs go head to head to represent their county in the National Finals. It has been described as ‘possibly one of the most exciting Chef competitions in years’. There…
Statement by Cllr. Ken O’Flynn, Independent, General Election Candidate in Cork North-Central Recent figures show more than 120 people working for the Defence Forces are in receipt of the Working Family Payment (WFP). Reacting to this, Cllr Ken O’Flynn said “Our Defence Forces are in crisis, I have spoken with Defence Forces personnel and…
The Port of Cork has reported that the combined total traffic through both the Port of Cork and Bantry Bay Port Company took a dip of 5% from 10.6 million tonnes, to just over 10 million tonnes in 2019. The cause for this minor decline is attributed to less volumes of dry bulk cargo through…
Thousands of people are expected to flock to the Cork International Hotel this weekend for the Cork Travel Fair There are only days left to the fourth Cork International Travel Fair which will bring together travel agents, holidaymakers, hotels and many others. This is one of the biggest events of its kind in Ireland…
A big celebration evening took place at the Kinsale Yacht Club last night to mark Kinsale’s win at the recent Bank of Ireland National Enterprise Town Awards. Kinsale took home the National title for the most Enterprising Town in Ireland in the 5,000 to 12,000 population category. For the third year running, Kinsale also won the…
Families are being encouraged to ‘start new traditions’ by celebrating a family date night. Valentines Day especially can be a nice time to start with the Cork International Hotel launching ‘FAMentine’s Day’ packages where families can enjoy dinner, an overnight stay, a trip to Fota Wildlife Park and even catch a movie in the hotel’s…
The countdown is on to the Cork International Travel Fair in association with Cork Airport which will take place once again at the Cork International Hotel on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of February. Also announced this week is the news that major exhibitors such as Air France, FlyBe and Silver Sea Cruises will…
Photography By: Ger Bonus.