Kinsale accountancy firm Fitzgerald & Partners have added new CPAs to their team in Kinsale as part of their recruitment drive. Their business advisory team work with the SME sector and have recently developed a new 44-page free guide for start-ups. Following on from their successful Doing Business in Kinsale guide, which pulled together all…
One of Cork’s leading visitor attractions is undergoing change, as Lifetime Lab rebrands to the Old Cork Waterworks Experience. The rebranding is part of a strategy to develop the tourist potential of the site and attract additional international and domestic visitors. It follows significant investment by Cork City Council and Fáilte Ireland at the site…
More than €700 million is currently being invested in Cork City Centre by private and public sector organisations. The developments, which include a number of multi-functional sites encompassing retail, office, education, culture and tourism, are driving growth and confidence in Ireland’s second city. Matching this financial investment, traders, retailers, hoteliers, city residents and businesses have…
MV Astoria will arrive into Cobh today. It is the first of 94 cruise liners to visit the Port of Cork in 2018, a 30 percent increase on 2017 calls. The Port of Cork anticipates, with 94 cruise calls, the total passenger numbers to be 188,844 and 80,000 crew. Up to eight cruise liners will…
[envira-gallery id=”17140″] Photos: Gerard McCarthy
As Cork City’s skyline continues to evolve and the City Centre undergoes rapid change, a special event will be held next week to highlight how the City Centre is on the rise and the collaborative work that is taking place at various levels to make this happen. Speaking ahead of the People, Place, Progress event,…
As Cork’s business community recovers from the recent cold snap, Wild Work, a SECAD Partnership initiative, is energised by thoughts of Spring and new growth! Wild Work’s raison d’être is to help people, help nature, help people. The Wild Work team practically achieves this by using its biodiversity expertise to take action and work with…
Cork is to benefit from the highest allocation nationally under the Local Improvement Schemes, with €1 million in funding being secured for the county, said An Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD. Michael Ring, Minister for Rural and Community Development, has approved over €10 million in funding for Local Authorities under the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) to…
Business Cork is proud to announce that our fair city has been acknowledged as one of the friendliest places in Europe to do business! And as if that wasn’t enough, Cork has also been ranked as one of the overall top 25 European cities of the future, by the Financial Times’ fDi magazine. Cork ranked…
Decadent Theatre Company are revisiting one of their acclaimed productions, Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, in a new staging, directed by Andrew Flynn and opening at the Everyman Theatre on Monday, February 19, for three performances only, until February 21 as part of a nationwide tour. ‘We are in a decidedly perilous position, to put it mildly.’ Adam, an…