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Call for a General Election in Ireland – Saturday 24/04/2010 @ 12 Noon

Posted by on April 19, 2010 at 10:30 pm

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National Spring Clean 2010

Posted by on April 9, 2010 at 4:11 pm

National Spring Clean takes place during the month of April, 2010. National Spring Clean is Ireland’s most popular, well recognised and successful anti-litter initiative. Now in its 12th year, the campaign encourages every sector of society to actively participate and take responsibility for litter, by actually conducting clean-ups in their own local environment. National Spring [...]

Cork City Marathon 2010

Posted by on April 9, 2010 at 10:55 am

The Cork City Marathon will take place this year on June 7th 2010. Building on the success of the marathon since its inception four years ago, a new route has been announced for this years marathon. Click here to view the route (pdf) There is plenty of help and support available out

Irish Blog Awards 2010 – Winner!

Posted by on March 28, 2010 at 6:23 pm

Last night in Galway at the 5th Annual Irish Blog Awards, I won in the category “Best Blog of  a politician”. This was hugely fulfilling award for me. Over the last year I have tried to develop my Web 2.0 presence and to use my blog to keep people updated on what was happening at a [...]

Cork City Council to ‘switch off’ for Earth Hour 2010

Posted by on March 26, 2010 at 11:04 am

Cork City Council will be supporting the fourth annual Earth Hour on Saturday night, 27th March by switching off its illuminations on the City Hall campus between 8.30pm and 9.30pm. Cork city will join more than 1,000 cities around the world where one billion people are expected to take this symbolic action against climate change. [...]

Escalated Impact Industrial Action Affecting us all

Posted by on March 23, 2010 at 4:07 pm

All councillors through out the country have just received an email from Jackie Spoonley personal assistant to Hilary Kelleher of IMPACT. The email that I received stated that: “An official instruction on the escalation of industrial action sent by Peter Nolan, National Secretary, Impact on 16 March 2010 states that the ban on

Cork Area Transit Scheme Study

Posted by on March 15, 2010 at 1:25 pm

MVA Consultancy was appointed by Cork City Council to undertake a public transport feasibility study for the Cork City Region (Metropolitan Cork) to provide for public transport needs up to 2020 and beyond. The project was undertaken by the Consultant working with a project group with membership drawn from Cork City Council, Cork County Council [...]

Cork Volunteer Week 2010

Posted by on March 15, 2010 at 11:35 am

Volunteer Week take places from the 5th-11th April 2010.  The event is sponsored by Bord Gáis Energy with the Evening Echo as exclusive print media sponsors and 96FM and C103 as radio sponsors. What is Volunteer Week? The main aims of the week are: