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5 days ago | echolive.ie | Concubhar Ó Liatháin

Bantry Bay Port Company is expecting a “strong season”, bringing thousands of visitors to West Cork on more than a dozen cruise ships. The first of these, World Explorer, dropped anchor in the harbour town on Friday. It is one of 14 liners from a range of international destinations scheduled to call at Bantry Bay Port during the 2025 season.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Concubhar Ó Liatháin

The bathing waters of all of Cork’s 15 beaches, which are monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have been classified as excellent or good in the EPA’s 2024 report. While 12 of the county’s beaches have been ranked as excellent, three have been classified as good by the EPA. The three beaches ranked as ‘good’ are the Warren, Coolmaine and Garryvoe.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Concubhar Ó Liatháin

WHILE the Catholic Church has 1.4bn adherents, just 135 cardinals, who will sequester themselves in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican later today, have the power of electing who among them will be the next pope. The Echo spoke to a number of Cork priests to get their sense of what they would like from the next papacy. ‘More Francis’ or something different?

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Concubhar Ó Liatháin

The Cork teenager who lost her life in a tragic autograss accident at a motor racing meet in Castletown-Kinneigh yesterday has been described as “a beautiful girl, inside and out, bubbly, fun loving, kind, caring, a loveable rogue” by teachers and students at McEgan College in Macroom where she was a first year student.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Concubhar Ó Liatháin

More than 5,000 people have votes in Co Cork in excess of the number of eligible people found to be living in the county according to the 2022 Census, it has been disclosed in a new report issued by the Electoral Commission. In its oversight report on the Electoral Register, the commission found that Cork County Council was one of eight local authorities with more voters on the register than people eligible to vote living in the county according to census data.