PepsiCo Ireland is proud to continue its support for Cork Penny Dinners with a €10,000 donation. As PepsiCo celebrates 50 years in Cork, one of their 50for50 campaign activities encouraged employees to answer the Charity’s appeal for Back to School supplies. Employees donated over 150 school bags, pencil cases, and other back-to-school supplies. PepsiCo teams…
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science Patrick O’Donovan TD has today announced a Research Ireland Strategic Partnership Award of €5 million to researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences for breast cancer research. The award will fund the ‘PRISM (Precision Oncology Research Initiative for Metastatic Breast Cancer)’ programme, which…
Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery has acquired two more paintings by one of Ireland’s best-known painters, Seán Keating. The Keating paintings are amongst four artworks recently acquired at auction by Crawford Art Gallery for the National Collection. Sean Keating’s Elijah with the Ravens, Version II (1930) and his self-portrait, c.1961, along with Winter Evening, Calary (1964) by abstract and landscape artist Camille Souter…
Newly appointed Chief Executive, Valerie O’Sullivan, has today announced a major restructuring of senior management, directorates, and creation of city centre focused directorate. The Chief Executive of Cork City Council has announced a restructuring exercise which will see the new senior management assignments and directorates active from December this year. The number of directorates remains…
Early Table, the Irish restaurant discovery platform, is poised for significant growth in 2025, with plans to triple its active membership base to 100,000. Since its soft launch in 2023, Early Table has connected over 34,000 active members with exclusive dining offers, providing savings of up to 50% while helping restaurants nationwide fill empty tables.…
A Taylor Swift tribute is set to take place on Saturday 26th October at the Cork International Hotel in aid of Cope Foundation. Organised by the Cork International Hotel, Taylor Switch – The Eras Be Grand Tour is aimed at young Swifties who want to celebrate the music of their favourite pop star. The event is part of…
Bank of Ireland has appointed Eamonn Corcoran as Director for Area South, overseeing 53 branches and outlets across Munster and South East Leinster (Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford), encompassing over 550 colleagues. Eamonn has 25 years’ experience in financial services, and first joined Bank of Ireland in 2000. Since joining Bank of Ireland, he has held a…
Seasonal and locally grown produce have inspired a new Autumn Afternoon Tea at the Metropole Hotel. The team at the hotel is committed to supporting local suppliers and using seasonality when designing the menus. Trigon Hotels, which includes the Metropole Hotel and the Cork International Hotel, works with more than 20 local growers and…
Little Island is set to welcome the establishment of the Little Island Padel Club, an exciting new members-only club for padel players. This development follows the recent sale of Community Padel to Padel Partners Ireland. Announcing the sale, Michael Mulcahy, Chairman of Community Padel, highlighted that the transaction was one of the fastest start-up sales…
Lidl Ireland is to seek planning permission from Cork County Council to develop a new €200m regional distribution centre in Wallingstown in Little Island. It is expected that up to 100 full time jobs could be added with the completion of the centre expected to be in 2028. This would be the second distribution centre…