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Cork Sports Partnership – Primary Schools Athletics Programme
Image: Brian Lougheed Over 1,500 primary school children participate. 36 schools from all over Cork Cork Sports Partnership in association with Athletics Ireland & Munster Technological University were delighted to once again coordinate the Cork Primary Schools Athletics Programme. As always with Cork Sports Partnership initiatives this event is all about fun & participation. Each…
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Minister Humphreys announces payment of Carer’s Support Grant
Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys TD, has today announced the payment of the Carer’s Support Grant to some 125,000 carers across the country. The annual grant of €1,850 is in recognition of the key role carers play every single day. It is available to all carers providing full-time care to an older person or…
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Cork County Council Confirms Garretstown Blue Flag Reinstatement
Cork County Council can confirm that the Blue Flag has been reinstated in Garretsstown Beach and will be raised as soon as the required conditions, that of recycling facilities are provided. The Council will make arrangements to provide these facilities at the earliest opportunity.
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Schools in Cork explore STEM at the ESB Science Blast Limerick
Image: Brian Arthur Pictured at ESB Science Blast at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick are primary school students from Timoleague National School. Over 100 projects were displayed for the fifth annual ESB Science Blast taking place over three days in Limerick. Delivered by the RDS Foundation, ESB Science Blast is a STEM-focused educational programme involving…
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Education Minister Launches €5M Mental Health Support Pilot for Primary Schools
Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has today, Wednesday 31 May, announced the establishment of a landmark programme of counselling and mental health supports to be piloted in a series of primary schools from September 2023. For the first time ever, clusters of primary schools will be able to avail of significant counselling services through…
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Cork County Council Beach Lifeguard Team take up duty for 2023 Bathing Season
2021 – Lifeguard Evan O’Broin keeping a watchful eye on swmmers while on duty at Claycastle Beach, Youghal, Co Cork. Image: Brian Lougheed As the Summer bathing season arrives, Cork County Council’s Beach Lifeguard Team is once again preparing to oversee the safety of the public in the water around the county’s stunning coast. The…
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Joint June Bank Holiday Appeal to Motorists to ‘Pass Wide and Slow’ When Meeting Horse Riders and other Vulnerable Road Users
Stock Image courtesy of Deposit Photos The Road Safety Authority (RSA), and An Garda Síochána (AGS) have teamed up with Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) and Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) to produce a series of videos to inform motorists how to share the roads safely with horse riders. Road users are being urged to be cautious…
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Music Generation Cork City’s 10th Anniversary Anthem Gets MTV Treatment
A year of celebrations to mark 10 years of Music Generation Cork City has led to the composition of their very own anthem, “Music Gives Me A Reason” – an original song born out of the collaborative efforts of young people and their mentors from several of the programme’s partner community music providers at the…
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Government Approves Legislation Banning Sale of Vaping Products to Under 18s
Stock Image courtesy of Deposit Photos The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly T.D. and Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy Hildegarde Naughton TD today (Tuesday 30 May) received Government approval to publish the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill and bring it forward for enactment. This Bill includes wide-ranging…
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Cork Airport Hits 1 Million Passengers in 2023
New Ryanair summer services to Seville and La Rochelle will commence on June 1 and June 4 respectively. Ryanair to increase frequency on East Midlands service from two to three-times weekly. This weekend will see a 13% increase in passengers, compared to June Bank Holiday 2022. Cork Airport is set to welcome it’s one millionth…