Following successful completion of LEO Cork City’s Grow Your Business Programme, the participating small and micro businesses were presented with their Certificates on 29th June 2023 at Oriel House Hotel Ballincollig. The programme was delivered by Gannon Consulting on behalf of LEO Cork City. John Gannon said “This was a practical programme aimed at sustaining and growing small businesses. There was a…
Rethink Ireland elects new Chair of the Board and appoints new Board members to lead positive change fuelled by social innovation Entrepreneur Áine Kerr elected Chair of Rethink Ireland Board of Directors along with the appointment of Professor Michael Shevlin of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities and John Fitzgerald, expert in…
TV personality and podcaster, Vogue Williams, stepped out in style yesterday in Cork where she hosted an exclusive garden party at Bloom, in the 5 star Hayfield Manor, Cork. The private event marked a very exciting collaboration between British brand, Hope & Ivy, and Love Cherish Boutique Cork. The two powerhouse businesses have joined…
Pictured with Deirdre Clune MEP and Malcolm Garde, AbbVie Cork Site Head, at the recent launch of the AbbVie STEM Prize, a new science education initiative by the biopharmaceutical company, AbbVie, promoting the value of STEM subjects, are pupils from Little Island National School in Cork: (L-R) Frank Krysiak (age 9); Phoebe Purcell (age 9); Sophie Purcell (age 12) and…
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin TD, has today launched a survey seeking the public’s input into the design of the new passport book and card. Speaking today the Tánaiste said: “I am delighted to launch the passport design survey which will invite the public to participate in the process of designing…
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, T.D., announced today that she expects to be in a position in the coming days to finalise the Terms of Reference of the Review of Governance and Culture in RTÉ which she intends to commission as a matter of urgency. The Minister…
New Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Kieran McCarthy, pictured meeting Niamh Murphy, and Ellen O’Sullivan, of On the pig’s back cheese & Charcuterie, during the Lord Mayor’s annual official visit to The English Market, where he met and spoke with traders, tourists and shoppers along the way. Picture: Michael O’Sullivan /OSM PHOTO
Pictured at this month’s Community Spirit Award to COFFA ( Cork Old Folks Friendly Association) at Church Street, near Shandon, were from left, Dominic O’Callaghan ; Anne Twomey ; Denis Wilson, Chairman, COFFA ; Gerald McCarthy, Award Proposer ; Edel Kavanagh, Cork International Airport Hotel ( Joint Sponsors) ; Maeve Higgins and Cllr. Tony Fitzgerald.…
Pictured with the award are Aoiffe Llewellyn, Client Manager, Rachel Lysaght, Senior Client Executive, Patrick O’Grady, Senior Client Executive, Sandy Boundy, Director of Strategy & Insight and Susie Horgan, Managing Director, Springboard Communications. Picture: Fennell Photography Springboard Communications has won the PRCA Agency of the Year award at the Awards for Excellence in Public Relations 2023 held…
Today at an event in Cork called ‘Cracking Sustainability in the Face of Rising Costs, held by Guaranteed Irish a recent survey showed that 2 in 3 Irish consumers buy local on a weekly basis despite the cost of living crisis. Pictured at the event was Brid O’Connell, CEO, Guaranteed Irish (centre) with local producers…