Donal O’Keeffe

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe

Six young West Cork innovators are celebrating after their potentially life-saving invention has won a prestigious national engineering award. The young scientists, who are pupils in third class in Barryroe National School, have won the 2025 Engineers Ireland STEPS Young Engineers Award for their invention, the Water Safety Wristband. The Barryroe team faced strong competition, with almost 4,000 primary school children from all over the country submitting more than 550 projects.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe

Someone who has helped thousands of people struggling with debt nationwide has been named the May Cork Person of the Month. Patrick Coughlan, who retired as manager and financial controller of The Lough Credit Union in 2015, has been honoured in recognition of his role in the establishment of MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service). Mr Coughlan has dedicated over four decades to improving financial literacy and assisting those facing financial difficulties across Munster.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe

Cork city is to receive only three ‘probationer’ gardaí at the June attestation ceremony at the Garda Training College in Templemore, the same number it received at the previous graduation in March, The Echo has learned. A spokesperson for the Garda Representative Association (GRA) said it had been told the Cork City garda division is to receive three garda recruits in the allocation following the next graduation in June.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has launched a public consultation seeking views from consumers and food businesses on a national food hygiene rating scheme. In several other countries, food hygiene rating schemes provide customers with signage that indicates the level of cleanliness and food safety standards of a food business based on official food safety inspections.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Donal O’Keeffe

It says something about British TV presenter, artist, and 2024 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here contestant Timmy Mallett, currently cycling around Ireland, that his first stop in Cork was to meet the Taoiseach. First coming to prominence in the early 1980s with TVAM’s Wide Awake Club, and its spin-off Wacaday, the veteran broadcaster is now reaching a new generation as he cycles around Ireland and documents his journey in paintings and posts on “me socials”.