Rachel Lysaght

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Olivia Kelleher |Rachel Lysaght |Donal O'Keeffe

The 31-year-old man who died after being stabbed in Youghal on Monday evening has been named locally as Daniel ‘Dano’ O’Sullivan, who had been jailed for manslaughter in 2016. Gardaí and the emergency services were called to the scene following a row between two men at a pub on Youghal’s North Main Street at around 9.50pm. Mr O’Sullivan was transferred to Cork University Hospital (CUH) where he was treated for serious injuries but was later pronounced dead.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Rachel Lysaght

From school-bells to wedding-bells, 35-year-old Natalie Bruton and 35-year-old Stephen Bruton from Cobh first began writing their love story in spring of 2002. In a true enemies-to-lovers trope, Natalie, who is a special needs assistant at Bunscoil Rinn an Chabhlaigh, told The Echo, that she and her now husband, who is a manager at Eurospar, “hated each other” prior to the beginning of their 23-year-long romance.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Rachel Lysaght

Fifteen new businesses have been launched in Cork following the graduation of the 2024 cohort from the New Frontiers Programme at Munster Technological University (MTU). The programme, which is Ireland’s national entrepreneur development initiative, delivered by Enterprise Ireland and The Rubicon Centre, provides potential and upcoming business owners with hands-on support across three phases of the start-up journey.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Rachel Lysaght

Cork World Book Festival has selected this year’s first-page pitchers, who will have the opportunity to pitch their works to industry agents this month. At a special event as part of the festival programme, the selected individuals will read their works in front of literary agents and receive feedback as part of the festival’s Get Published Day.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Rachel Lysaght

Up to 120 schools in Cork are to benefit from expansion of the Hot School Meals Programme. The expansion, announced yesterday, will give an additional 131,700 children nationwide, across 713 schools, access to the hot meals. The total number of primary school children now eligible across the country to receive a hot school meal every day is 475,000. The programme, launched in 2019 as a pilot of just 30 schools, will now encompass 2,850 primary schools.