[quote]"We choose a charity partner every year and we try to focus on those charities working with children or the vulnerable."[/quote]

As it is the last week of 2016 I’ve taken my glass half-full tablets for this final column of the year.

FEED THE LOVE

Cork’s most famous country house has hit back at unfavourable reviews from a British journalist.

IT MAY not be the kind of icy economic indicator that would beguile Standard and Poor’s or Moody’s, but the fact that a Saturday night table at Farmgate is not so easily secured must mean something positive.

TWO of Cork’s leading restaurateurs were smiling broadly alongside almost 300 undergraduates and postgraduates at a conferring ceremony at UCC yesterday.

RED-FACED Labour Party press officers are being sent back to school by Pat Rabbitte to cut down on their spelling gaffes.

CORK Business Association is launching a major drive to get new members, preparing to appoint its first chief executive and commencing a series of corporate lunches featuring high-profile speakers like Ben Dunne.