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Older people in Cork will receive free tanks of hot water as part of a collaboration between not-for-profit EnergyCloud Ireland, Cork City Council and the Cork Age Friendly City programme.

On 3rd April 2025 in Cork City Hall the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Ms. Isabell Kempf presented the Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr. Dan Boyle with a UNESCO Learning City Award, making Cork the first city in the world to receive this prestigious award on two occasions.

Cork City Council has launched the Shandon Integrated Urban Strategy (IUS), an action-based roadmap for the sustainable and heritage led regeneration of the Shandon area over the coming years.

Cork City Council announced the official opening the Marina Promenade by Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D

Applications remain open until May 6 for Cork City Council’s latest affordable housing scheme at Glenmore Heights in Lehenaghmore, the second housing scheme of its kind in the south-west of the city.

Take a sneak peek at Marina Park’s playground which is due to open this summer!

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Dan Boyle has launched the 20th Cork Lifelong Learning Festival, which is taking place from Wednesday 2 April to Wednesday 9 April 2025.  

A new exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the unveiling of the Cork War Memorial on the South Mall, on March 17, 1925, has opened in Cork Public Museum.

This year, Cork’s city centre, among other locations, will be the focus of Cork City Council’s public lighting crews with an estimated 2,000 LED lanterns to be upgraded leading to improved public space and safety. The aim of the LED upgrade programme is to provide consistent public lighting design, maximise energy savings, reduce CO2 emissions and enhance efficiency across the network by replacing traditional sodium lamp lanterns with more energy efficient LED lanterns. Significantly, the public lighting upgrade, which began in 2021, has resulted in a CO2 reduction of 360.56CO2t. Last year, Cork City Council began an ambitious 10-year plan to renew its 25,500 public lighting assets, including ongoing LED installation and the replacement of 11,500 lighting columns in housing estates, primary and secondary public roads. This project will require significant once in a generation funding to allow Cork City Council to fully replace life expired assets to ensure a reliable and uninterrupted public lighting network. Aidan Mahony, Senior Executive Engineer of the ITS Section said “ a lot of good work has been completed by the team, but there are significant challenges facing the public lighting network”. “Essential works are urgently required to ensure that degraded assets are replaced to ensure residential estates remain fit for purpose for future generations of the city. This will require financial resources, the understanding of residents, the support of stakeholders/contractors and a significant resource from ESB Networks to deliver the plan successfully,” he said. James Kenneally, Executive Engineer, Public Lighting Operations said “Cork City Council are very proud of the energy saved through the LED lantern upgrade programme. This success has been achieved through a close working relationship between the Council’s public lighting team and its public lighting maintenance contractor Electric Skyline. Cork City Council hope to continue this good work through their 10-year public lighting column refurbishment project which commenced last year. This project will be a generational project that will future proof the public lighting network in Cork City for many years to come”. All work will be undertaken to ensure the public lighting network is in compliance with

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Dan Boyle officially opened 30 A-rated social housing apartments and turned the sod on another 133 new homes, at two different schemes, across the city.