A new €17 million grant scheme to allow tourism and hospitality businesses to develop outdoor dining capacity will help prepare businesses for reopening, but more work is needed to provide struggling businesses with long-term certainty according to Cork South West Deputy Christopher O’Sullivan The government’s Outdoor Dining Enhancement Scheme launched this […]
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has, this afternoon, given the all-clear over safety concerns surrounding the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccination. In recent days a number of countries had withdrawn the vaccine following reports by the Norwegian Medicines Agency of blod clots in a number of patients. Ireland South Green Party MEP […]
Cork South West Deputy Christopher O’Sullivan will meet with Education Minister Norma Foley in the coming weeks to discuss the implementation of sustained, individual and intensive emotional counselling and therapeutic supports in primary and secondary schools. Deputy O’Sullivan will meet minister Foley along with Minister of State for Mental Health […]
Students of Clonakilty Community College in West Cork are in for a big surprise when they return to school after months of lockdown. Governed by the Cork Education and Training Board (Cork ETB), the West Cork school has recently undergone a state-of-the-art extension, made possible by a significant investment of […]
Minister for Transport, Eamonn Ryan and Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton TD have announced funding for up to 248 new jobs to implement Active travel infrastructure. They plan to employ 218 staff across local authorities with an additional 30 proposed for Regional Cycling Design Offices. The announcement has been celebrated […]