Taste the Island – a celebration of Ireland’s food and drink. Over fifty businesses and individuals from Cork, today attended the first of Fáilte Ireland’s Taste the Island workshops for Cork in The Celtic Ross Hotel, with the second workshop scheduled for next Monday, May 20 in The River Lee Hotel. This is part of a series…
Chefs from Cork gathered for a special mentoring workshop at the Cork Institute of Technology to support the new Chef De Partie Apprenticeship Programme workshop, supported by Fáilte Ireland and other tourism industry bodies. The workshop was held by Fáilte Ireland to assist existing industry mentors, who have apprentice Chef De Parties’ in training to…
Tourism agency Fáilte Ireland, together with Tourism Ireland, are this week showcasing a select number of top attractions in counties Tipperary, Waterford and Cork to a group of overseas media, who are in Ireland on a Discover Munster press trip to see what the area has to offer overseas visitors. The group include representatives from Globetrotter…
Senator Colm Burke, Micheál Lyons Old Cork Waterworks and Cork City Council, Jenny DeSaulles Head of Ireland’s Ancient East, Brendan Griffin T.D Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Helen Mulcahy Cork County Council and St. Mary’s Collegiate Church and Dan Breen Acting Curator Cork Public Museum Funding awarded through the Ireland’s Ancient East Storytelling…
Today Thursday May 10, secondary school students from across Munster and Leinster travelled to Kerry to cook in the IT Tralee state of the art kitchens in the 2017/2018 Flogas Ireland and Fáilte Ireland supported Apprentice Chef finale. Earlier this year each finalist was assigned an experienced chef to provide mentoring to help them design…
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…