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10 April 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Graham Norton will be appearing at this year’s West Cork Literary Festival which takes place in Bantry from June 7th to 14th. He will be in conversation with fellow writer, Maeve Higgins. Winner of nine BAFTAs during his television career, Graham has written four novels, which have all…
bryan@TheCork.ie Cork’s Cope Foundation reflects on what has been a year of challenges, closures, and incredible change As the Chief Executive of Cope Foundation reflects on 2020, he cannot help but be impressed by how people right across the organisation adapted and faced the many challenges that 2020 presented. But this does not diminish his concern about the damaging effects the pandemic is having and will continue to have on the people supported. File photo showing COPE Foundation entrance sign for a previous golf fundraiser Picture Darragh Kane Sean Abbott says, ” We were already exp...
bryan@TheCork.ie Employees at Apple’s Cork campus have been putting the final touches on a variety concert which will be broadcast to residents and staff at St. Luke’s Nursing Home and Marymount University Hospice. The one hour concert of live and pre-recorded material will see volunteers bring Christmas cheer through song, instrumental performances, dance routines and poetry recitals. Paula McGovern, Head of Communications and Fundraising Marymount Hospice Marymount Hospice with musicians Deirdre Mullan and Cathal Murphy from Apple. who are performing at a virtual variety concert for t...
tom@TheCork.ie Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery; BUMBLEance, Covers of Comfort and Shine Centre for Autism among the 49 recipients Almost 50 Cork charities and community groups will benefit from funding from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s €50,000 community partnership grant. Among the local deserving projects announced today by the Currabinny-based global life sciences company are Cork City Missing Persons Search and Recovery; Covers of Comfort, a group who knit and crochet covers for those going through chemotherapy; and Shine Centre for Autism. Announcing the 49 recipients of...