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The organisers of the search for Ireland’s greenest places have appealed for people around Cork to enter their favourite ecologicially-sound location in the competition in which entries will be judged on criteria such as its beneficial impact, the level of ongoing collective engagement and evidence of behavioural change by people.

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The food and drink heritage of Cork is to be celebrated in the historic surroundings of the English Market in a new event added to the mouthwatering menu of the Cork on a Fork Festival scheduled to take place across the city in August. The “Supper by the Fountain” event to take place on Saturday, August 16, will present diners with a multi-course meal prepared by three of the city’s most respected chefs, Pamela Kelly of Farmgate Café, Aishling Moore of Goldie and Harrison Sharpe of Elbow Lane.

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The owner of a popular city café has penned a ‘Proclamation of Cork Independence’ as part of a fund-raising appeal to businesses across the Rebel County and a protest as what he has described as the “deeply inhumane policies” being promoted by US President, Donald Trump.

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Cork County Council chief executive Moira Murrell, in response to a query from The Echo, has said that she received a letter from the housing minister, James Browne, and the “correspondence advised local authorities that providing for housing needs is the Government’s top priority, and that revised population and housing targets will be issued to the city and county councils shortly”.

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A girl with profound autism in the Bandon Kinsale municipal district has been left with no therapist and has lost her social worker due to staff turnover, a Cork county councillor told last week’s meeting of the authority. Social Democrats councillor Ann Bambury sought support for a motion urging the health minister to address severe shortages in staffing of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs).