Tourism businesses across South and West Cork are being invited to apply for various courses as part of the Tourism Towns Skills Programme. The programme is being coordinated by the SECAD Partnership and many courses will start in late September and run for the next two years. One of these courses is looking at how…
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Corporate Travel Management (CTM), Ireland’s leading independent travel management company, has announced a partnership with US based multinational travel management company, FROSCH, to establish FROSCH CTM, effective immediately. FROSCH has acquired a fifty percent equity interest in CTM who are headquartered in Cork. Established in 2000, CTM has a workforce of 40, which is expected…
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Cllr. Ken O’ Flynn has confirmed that he has written to the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Deputy Seán Fleming TD asking him to launch an immediate investigation into Cork County Council and its Executive over the spending of up to €50m of tax payers money on the Bottlehill super dump. “Now…
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Support from Creative Ireland Programme will see new partnerships and local Youth Theatre groups being established. Josepha Madigan, TD, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht today announced a pilot initiative by Youth Theatre Ireland to support the roll-out of a new nationwide structure for the development, training and start-up of youth theatre groups. The…
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I’m sure you’ve had an experience of some kind with customers or clients who can’t, won’t or simply don’t pay you. If you talk to any SME, they will have a story of someone not paying them. If they don’t have a story, then it’s one of two things. One, they aren’t telling the truth.…
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The Dunkettle contract entered between TII and Sisk required that the forecast of costs must be agreed prior to proceeding with main construction works. TII and Sisk can confirm that an agreement has not been reached. Both parties remain committed to advancing the project. TII and Sisk have worked together throughout stage one to successfully…
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Cllr. Ken O’ Flynn has called on the Chief Executive of Cork City Council and the other stakeholders to put an immediate contingency plan in place in the event that the Cork Events Centre does not go ahead. “It is clear to the dogs in the street that this project is now in serious trouble…
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Feed Cork is partnering again this year with the Department of Social Protection and High Street Books in providing Back-to-School packs for families in need of assistance. Feed Cork’s Director Hamp Sirmans said: “These packs come at a much needed time for Cork families struggling with back-to-school costs. With rising housing prices it can be…
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The play based on Samuel Beckett’s novel comes to The Everyman next month. A man lies in the mud, in the dark. He repeats his life as he hears it, uttered by a voice, telling how it was. Meanwhile, memories surface, perhaps of life above in the light. Samuel Beckett’s 1963 novel How It Is continues to…
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Cork Racecourse will welcome a stellar lineup of racing and fashion in the coming weeks – all in the name of charity as the Mallow track gears up for its raceday in aid of Marymount University Hospital and Hospice on Saturday, August 17th. While the horses battle it out for first place on the track,…
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