Landmark day for Cork as Minister Norma Foley turns sod on State-of-the-Art Carrigtwohill School Campus

Construction of historic campus underway and due for completion in 2023 Cork Education and Training Board and the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne were joined by Education Minister Norma Foley, T.D., on Friday to celebrate a significant milestone in the construction of a new three-school campus in Carrigtwohill that will be home to over 2,000 students…

Dunkettle Progress Update 28th November 2022

Following on from our update of Friday 25th of November 2022, we confirm that there will be a minor change in alignment for M8 southbound, N8 eastbound and N25 westbound traffic wishing to enter the Jack Lynch Tunnel from tomorrow morning. The aerial photographs below show the realigned routes – the main impact will be on N25 westbound…

CELEBRATION OF START-UPS AT IGNITE AUTUMN AWARDS

IGNITE graduates Stephen MacCarthy, Co-Founder of RecruitRoo; Niall Brennan, Founder of SimpleScents; Louis Walsh, Founder of FEMTOFIRE and Patrick O’Toole, Founder of nternz. Photo Joleen Cronin 24 graduate and student start-up founders were introduced at the IGNITE Awards and Showcase at University College Cork The IGNITE programme at University College Cork (UCC), which nurtures start-ups…

REVENUE EXPAND DEBT WAREHOUSING SCHEME

This is very good news this evening from the Revenue Commissioners as they have announced a 12 month extension to the Debt Warehousing Scheme to support businesses due to what it called the current challenging economic situation for companies. Under the scheme, businesses with warehoused debt were due to enter into an arrangement with Revenue…

GE Healthcare Opens New €30.5 Million Manufacturing Line in Cork, Ireland, to Increase Contrast Media Supply

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath T.D. has officially opened a new €30.5 million ($30 million) manufacturing line at GE Healthcare’s Carrigtohill, Co. Cork facility.  The new line, which has created 140 jobs, manufactures injectable diagnostic imaging agents (contrast media) used in Xray and Computed Tomography (CT) procedures around the world. Minister McGrath…