Captain Michael McCarthy, Commercial Manager, Port of Cork and Chairman of Cruise Europe, has been named October’s ‘Cork Person of the Month’.

PRIVATISATION is the economic term used to describe the dismantling of a social ideal aimed at providing a range of empowering services for all citizens.

Irish Shipping, the State-owned shipping group, entered into financially disastrous charter deals without the approval of the government, cabinet papers from 1983 reveal.

The fate of the Verolme Cork Dockyard was sealed more than a year before its closure in 1984 when the government accepted a report by a consultant that it was not commercially viable.

Former Taoiseach Sean Lemass is being immortalised in a state award scheme for entrepreneurial school kids, it emerged today.