26 April 2024 By Mary Bemingham mary@TheCork.ie Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Frank O’Flynn has officially reopened one of County Cork’s most iconic tourist attractions, Camden Fort Meagher, following an extensive revitalisation and enhancement programme. Internationally recognised as being one of the finest remaining examples of a classical Coastal Artillery Fort in the…
23 October 2023 By Mary Bemingham mary@TheCork.ie University College Cork (UCC) is the first higher education institution in Ireland to launch a "Proud Ally Student Network" - The network aims to work to end discrimination and promote equality at university and in wider society UCC staff and students celebrate the launch of UCC's Proud Ally…
22 October 2023 By Mary Bemingham mary@TheCork.ie Kinsale Community First Responders is the latest winner of the Cork International Hotel Community Spirit Award. The volunteer organisation responds to life-threatening emergencies including cardiac arrest, chest pain, stroke and minor traumatic calls in Kinsale and neighbouring areas. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week,…
21 October 2023 By Mary Bemingham mary@TheCork.ie Set on the campus of what was formerly Irish Telecom, the 32-metre steel dish was built in the 1980s at a cost of IR£8M to transmit calls from Ireland to America via satellite before being mothballed by Eircom. Today, with no government funding available to preserve the 220…
20 October 2023 By Mary Bemingham mary@TheCork.ie A tourist returned to a Cork hospital in the past week to thank the consultant cardiologist who saved his life during a severe heart attack. Mark Lang’s wife Julie, 51, believes her husband would not have survived had the holidaying English couple not been staying within minutes of…