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Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, family, friends and neighbours of Mary McGrath came together to celebrate her 104th birthday outside her home off Barrack Street.

Cork City Council will tonight (21 April) light Cork City Hall in blue to thank healthcare and frontline services workers for the phenomenal work they are doing during the COVID19 pandemic.

Approximately 100 Cork City Council outdoor and indoor staff from across the organisation, are now part of a Park Ranger Social Distancing Team, operating across 25 large City Council parks and walkways.

Cork City Council has launched an interactive online map detailing locations and contact details of support services available for people who need them in our city communities, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cork’s Friendly Call service, where volunteers make a daily call to people living alone, has seen a 27% hike in phone calls since COVID-19 restrictions began.

Cork City Council’s Community Response Forum (CRF) helpline, aimed at supporting vulnerable residents, took over 307 calls since it first began operation over a week ago.

Increasing awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through community engagement by targeting and motivating communities utilising digital social platforms and financial instruments

On Monday 30 March, The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr John Sheehan was first in the door to give blood at a special Covid19 Emergency blood donation clinic held in City Hall.

To mark the centenary of the death of Tomás Mac Curtain on 20th March 2020, Gael Taca are running two online competitions about Mac Curtain for young and old.

Cork City Council is today advising the High Court that it is consenting to the setting aside of the Part 8 planning approval for the Cork Docklands to City Centre Road Network Improvement Scheme. This is due to an omission in the Part 8 public notice whereby the conclusions of the environmental screening exercise, while undertaken, were not referenced in the notice.