Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) has announced the addition of a €40,000 seed fund its 2020 Ideas Academy programme. The Ideas Academy is aimed at people with early-stage innovative ideas to solve social problems and provides training and support to move from idea to action. Participants will have the opportunity to […]
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The Cork Gaeltacht fabric company Sullane Valley Manufacturing, based in Baile Mhic Íre, or Ballymakerra near Macroom, has stepped in to try to help Cork University Hospital to alter some of the consignment of PPE recently received from China to make it suitable for use. The company director Siobhán Uí Scannláin […]
The West Cork Literary Festival has taken the decision to cancel this year’s festival, which was due to take place from July 10 to 17 Months of work has gone into creating the 2020 programme. The full list of writers who were due to appear at the 2020 Festival will […]
Data from Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies illustrates the impact of public health restrictions on human activity Seismologists at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) have released data today illustrating the dramatic decrease in human activity as a result of Covid-19 lockdown measures. The Geophysics Section in DIAS operates the Irish National […]
Research teams at Dublin City University, NUI Galway and the Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics (NUI Galway), are working together on a population-wide survey to find out about the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated restrictive measures (lock down, social distancing) on daily life in Ireland. The […]
As this year’s Lenten campaign comes to an end, Trócaire has urged the people of Cork to hold onto their Trócaire boxes until it is safe and possible to return them in support of the development agency’s COVID-19 response work in some of the world’s poorest countries. While the agency’s […]