A new greenway and a woodland recreational area are among a range of ambitious new amenity, cultural, and tourism projects being pursued by a dynamic new lobby group launched in north Cork.

The President hailed the legacy of patriot Thomas Davis and his vision of a fairer Ireland yesterday as he unveiled a statue to honour his bicentenary.

An Post has issued a stamp honouring the life of revolutionary writer and Young Ireland leader Thomas Davis to mark the bicentenary of his birth. 

Family fun with maths and science are promised this weekend in a town making a name for itself as a mathematics education hub.

One of Cork’s largest towns is set to become a test location for the future shaping of Ireland’s regional towns.

A schoolteacher from west Cork and a village community group in the Muskerry gaeltacht were the overall winners in Cork County Council’s Mayor’s Community Awards Scheme.

A festival with a difference is to be held in a Co Cork town which aims to get more children interested in science and turn it into a hub for research and innovation.

A report on the futuredevelopment of Mallow Castle as a tourist attraction will be finalised in the next three months.

A research and innovation centre which will be the first of its type in the country for testing new products is to be created in Cork.

A TOWN’S decision to position itself as a high-tech testing hub has helped an Irish firm target a global market worth €40 million.

A CORK town is set to become a national centre of excellence for the teaching of maths and science as part of a major recession-busting initiative.

A LARGE provincial town has unveiled a visionary plan to beat the recession and position itself at the cutting edge of the smart economy.

AS a response to our economic difficulties the innovative projects unveiled by the Mallow Development Partnership yesterday are inspiring in a way that has not been seen recently.

Every sector of society was expecting pain from Budget 2010 and likewise, they all had a wish-list in advance of yesterday’s speech. Claire O’Sullivan travelled to the north Cork town of Mallow last week to talk to retailers and business people about what the town wanted and needed from Brian Lenihan’s budget.

THE loss of thousands of jobs across the country has been well documented in recent months but, whereas others are feeling the cold hand of recession for the first time only this year, parts of Cork saw the Celtic Tiger shot and skinned many years ago.

THE decision to close Mallow Sugar Factory with the loss of 324 jobs was described last night as a major blow to the town and its hinterland.

BEET growers will decide at a series of meetings over the next week if they will accept a price offer from Greencore to produce a crop for one further year of sugar processing in Ireland.

BEET deliveries to Mallow Sugar Factory for this season’s processing campaign will end today with the future of the industry hanging in the balance.