Mayor’s awards honour Cork community pioneers

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.

The awards scheme, in its second year, publicly acknowledges individuals who work on a voluntary basis in their home towns and villages to help others, and also to recognise communities that work together.

Out of a shortlist of 28 nominees, 10 winners were selected for the northern, western and southern divisions of the county council.