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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Donal O'Keeffe

    Cork Simon Community Stone Carving Group to hold first public exhibition (opens the original)

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    A group of stone carvers, made up of people who have struggled with homelessness and other issues, is to hold its first public exhibition this week. The artists’ collective, the Cork Simon Community Stone Carving Group, has been in existence since 2021, under the tutelage of stone carver Tommy Lysaght. In 2023, the collective gifted to the city a pair of matching stone and marble chess tables, which are situated on Pope’s Quay; and in 2024, a trio of standing stones, which are in the Peace Park

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Donal O'Keeffe

    Uisce Éireann yet to deal with longstanding 'eyesore' hoarding in Cork city centre (opens the original)

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    Uisce Éireann has refused to say when it will address a two-decades-old eyesore blighting a historic Cork city quay and main approach road, despite saying five years ago it was investigating the issue. Asked repeatedly over the past month by The Echo, the State water utility company has declined to say when precisely it intends to resolve a relic of the Cork main drainage scheme which has left ugly hoarding on Penrose Quay since the mid-noughties. The €300m main drainage project was designed to

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Donal O'Keeffe

    RTÉ Cork one step closer to a new home city home (opens the original)

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    RTÉ Cork has taken a step closer to a new home and is carrying out due diligence on a city-centre premises. Last year, RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst said RTÉ Cork planned to move from its Fr Mathew St home to a new, central location by 2027, with an increase to its current staff of approximately 50. The Fr Mathew St premises is three decades old and considered no longer fit for purpose. In a letter to staff sent yesterday and seen by The Echo, Mr Bakhurst confirmed that RTÉ had “sourced a

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Donal O'Keeffe

    'You could have had another Carrickmines': Blaze raises safety concerns at Cork city halting site (opens the original)

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    It was only “the mercy of God” that prevented lives from being lost after a fire broke out in a notorious Cork city halting site, one resident has told The Echo. The blaze, which has left a family homeless, began in an unoccupied caravan at the overcrowded Spring Lane site in Ballyvolane in the early hours of Thursday, September 17. It quickly spread to the neighbouring bay, gutting the home of a family of five and damaging another caravan, which is home to a family of seven. One neighbour, who

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Donal O'Keeffe

    Taoiseach: Calls to protect Cork Prison coming ‘very late in the day’ (opens the original)

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    Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there are “other agendas afoot” behind a proposal to place the old Cork Prison on the Register of Protected Structures. It was in the old prison, in August 1920, that Cork lord mayor Terence MacSwiney began the hunger strike that would end, 74 days later, with his death in Brixton Prison, bringing his cause to international attention. A motion to have the building listed as a protected structure will be debated tonight at a special meeting of Cork City Council.

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