Place: City of Cork

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Cork flood barrier is 'safer solution' that 'can be built in two years', claim campaigners

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Promotion for teacher who sold IT to college

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WATCH: Dunsland House is a private woodland haven, on market for €1.5/€1.85m

Passage West ideal home for a maritime museum

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County Cork VEC: Finally held to account

Education and Training Boards replace VECs to save €2m a year

Sixteen new Education and Training Boards will be established today to replace the 33 VEC's across the country.

Mon, 01 Jul, 2013

Bum note as cuts threaten course

Budget cuts could end a long-running, prestigious music course that has produced top performers, such as Mick Flannery, and graduates who work in the entertainment industry worldwide.

Thu, 13 Dec, 2012

VEC staff must state business interests

ALL Vocational Education Committees (VECs) are to be reminded that teachers and other staff involved in purchasing must declare any business interests after irregularities were discovered at a Cork college.

Fri, 07 Oct, 2011

No savings from VEC cuts ‘for years’

THE property market and the need for legal changes mean most of the estimated €3 million in annual savings from halving the number of Vocational Education Committees (VECs) might not be reaped for a number of years.

Thu, 28 Jul, 2011

Cut in VECs will annihilate education services, says union

LOCAL education services face annihilation under plans by Tánaiste Mary Coughlan to more than halve the number of Vocational Education Committees (VECs), staff representatives are warning.

Wed, 13 Oct, 2010

€200m disadvantaged fund fails to improve reading and maths

MORE THAN €200 million in funding given to schools to help disadvantaged pupils has failed to deliver progress on reading and maths among the students, the Department of Education has found.

Fri, 17 Sep, 2010

First day at all-boys’ school

SHE might be the only girl at the previously all-boys’ Nagle Community College, but Meagan Kavanagh was with her friends when she started her second-level education yesterday.

Tue, 26 Aug, 2008

Is there a capital conspiracy to lead Cork astray?

I DEFY anyone who is not familiar with the motorways/roads out of Dublin to Cork to navigate them without getting lost.

Tue, 15 Jul, 2008

Centre to help in youth drugs fight

A NEW centre on Cork’s northside, which targets at-risk youths, will help in the fight against drugs.

Tue, 27 Nov, 2007

Tributes paid to a ‘unique and popular’ politician

AN OUTSPOKEN local politician who won a landmark High Court case on disability payments a decade ago died at the weekend.

Mon, 11 Jun, 2007

Ferry fails safety check for second time

A passenger ferry which sails between the UK and Ireland has been detained for the second time in three months after failing a safety check, the ferry company said today.

Wed, 06 Jun, 2001

Ferry to resume sailing after safety row

The docked Swansea-Cork ferry City of Cork is due to make its first crossing in five days at 8pm tomorrow.

Mon, 19 Mar, 2001

Cork ferry grounded in Wales

Swansea Cork Ferries have issued a statement following the cancellation of its bank holiday sailings after a crew failed a second set of safety drills in Wales.

Sat, 17 Mar, 2001

Inquiry launched after ferry vehicles plummet into sea

A Stena Line ferry is due back in service, hours after four lorries tumbled out of its back door and plunged into the sea.

Fri, 16 Mar, 2001