Donal O’Keeffe
News Reporter at Echo Live
Reporter with @echolivecork. Retweets not an endorsement, opinions very much my own. DMs open. [email protected]. https://t.co/1F80c236A9…
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2 weeks ago |
echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe
Cork’s local authorities are to receive €2.2m in Government funding to effect improvements to their existing social housing stock. The Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government has today announced €23m funding for local authorities nationally to carry out adaptations, extensions and other improvements to social homes.
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2 weeks ago |
echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe
Opposition councillors will support a motion before Monday evening’s meeting of Cork City Council to endorse a housing protest next week. The Cork Council of Trade Unions will, alongside opposition parties and community groups, hold a city centre ‘Raise the Roof’ rally on Saturday, June 21, to highlight the housing crisis across Cork city. Speaking ahead of the motion, Sinn Féin councillor Kenneth Collins said 99 council houses in Cork city have been vacant for longer than two years.
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2 weeks ago |
echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe
A major security operation saw the deployment of dozens of uniformed gardaí on the streets of Cork on Saturday afternoon as two large rallies, each comprising thousands of people, briefly faced off in the city centre, passing off noisily but peacefully.
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2 weeks ago |
echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe
The Garda Representative Association (GRA) has said gardaí are concerned for their own safety, as well as that of the public, after the latest allocation of garda graduates has seen only three assigned to Cork city. Of a graduating class of 120 recruits at the Garda College in Templemore on Friday, the three gardaí assigned to Cork city represent 2.5% of the graduating class of 120, while 74 went to Dublin, representing 62%.
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3 weeks ago |
echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe
A Gurranabraher man who left Cork more than 60 years ago has been elected deputy mayor of an English city at the age of 85, and is in line to become the city's mayor next year. Last month, Labour councillor Ty Galvin was elected deputy mayor of Brighton & Hove for 2025-2026, with his party saying he was bringing to the role a lifelong commitment to social justice, community advocacy and inclusive public service.
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RT @OMahonyDoireann: Thanks to @Donal_OKeeffe @echolivecork for a wonderful tribute to my dad, Dr John, in today’s paper 🗞️ ❤️ https:…
Joe breaking in the #Liveline roof and setting fire to the place as a parting gift with Metallica. We are where we are.
Thanks for reminding me that today is the anniversary of this beauty, @johncreedon. https://t.co/AlBf3PzaaQ
