Mary Linehan Foley

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UCC interim President Professor John O’Halloran addressing the commemoration. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Execution of 13 IRA volunteers in 1921 may have been a war crime, says UCC historian

It could be argued that the execution by the British of 13 IRA volunteers in Cork 100 years ago was a war crime, according to a University College Cor(...)

Tim Lucey: ‘We have 958 [bins] in public spaces across the county but we could double or treble that figure and we would still have people littering.’ File photograph: iStock
Visitors to Cork beauty spots urged to take rubbish home

Visitors to beaches and other beauty spots in Cork have been urged to bring their litter home by Cork County Council chief executive Tim Lucey, who s(...)

Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley, Mayor of the County of Cork in Youghal. Photograph: John Hennessy/Provision
Cork: Youghal to receive €4 million for new library in regeneration project

The inclusion of Youghal in east Cork by Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys in a list of towns for regeneration funding ha(...)

A file image of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork. Photograph: Provision
Mayor of County Cork apologises over Bessborough Mother and Baby Home

The Mayor of Cork County, a survivor of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, has apologised on behalf of Cork County Council for failing to e(...)

Cathleen Coffey O’Brien, who was a resident at the Bessborough mother and baby home in Co Cork. Photograph: Garrett White
Nuns who ran the Bessborough home in Cork sold part of site for €6.85m

The order of nuns who ran the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork sold part of the site last year for €6.85 million, according to accounts filed (...)

Sanita Pušpure (39), who won the Women’s Single Sculls World Championship in Plovdiv in Bulgaria in 2018 and successfully defended her title in Ottensheim in Austria in 2019, has admitted she was surprised to be chosen as Cork Person of the Year for 2020.
Champion rower Sanita Pušpure wins Cork Person of the Year

Double World and European Rowing Champion Sanita Pušpure has been given a timely boost as she prepares for the delayed Olympics in Tokyo by being chos(...)

Catherine Coffey O’Brien who was a resident at the mother and baby home at Bessborough, Co Cork. Photograph: Garrett White
Call for stay on housing plan for Bessborough as search for graves continues

An adoptee born in Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork has called for a stay to be put on a planning application for apartments on the grounds un(...)

Tom Barry utilised good intelligence on where exactly a party of British Auxiliaries from C Company, based in Macroom, would go on patrol and selected a site in Kilmichael which offered his men ‘good killing ground’
Tom Barry showed great military expertise, says historian

IRA guerrilla leader, Tom Barry showed great military expertise in planning the Kilmichael ambush in West Cork 100 years ago today, both in selecting (...)

E-bike ambassadors Stevie G (centre) and Deirdre O’Shaughnessy (second left), partners in the Cork We-Bike campaign, at the launch of the new wE-Bike campaign, promoting the use of e-bikes across Cork city and county. Photograph: Clare Keogh
Health, cost and social benefits pushed in Cork e-bike campaign

Cork may well be a city of hills, but a new campaign aimed at promoting the use of e-bikes is hoping “to flatten the curve” for many would-be Leeside (...)

Mail processing for the Midleton area is carried out at a separate location and so was not impacted by the fire. Photograph: Cork County Fire Service/Twitter
An Post puts alternative arrangements in place after fire damages Midleton Post Office

An Post has begun putting postal and social welfare arrangements in place for people in Midleton after a fire damaged the post office in the town in e(...)

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