Campaigners have pledged to fight against any attempts to cut back or close accident and emergency services in Cork city following the news that the HSE is to review emergency departments across the country.
In its Service Plan for 2009, the HSE said that a detailed analysis of the provision of emergency services in a total of 41 hospitals across the country will take place over the coming months.
The announcement by the Government this week that extra substitution cover is to be made available to schools around the country has been broadly welcomed.
With the government having made savings in other sectors, some e2.7 million has now been set aside for secondary level school cover for the remainder of the year.
More than 500 protestors from across the country took to the streets of Fermoy at the weekend to voice their opposition to plans to destroy the Fermoy Weir.
According to campaigners, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources plans to destroy the weir in order to develop a rock ramp fish pass in its place which would ease the passage of salmon and lamprey up river to spawning grounds.
While it may still be a full seven days to Christmas, Paddy Power have decided to pay out to Cork punters who backed a white Christmas this year.
With unseasonably low temperatures throughout December, Paddy Power were forced to slash the odds on snow to fall on Christmas Day in Cork to 2/1, with their odds now showing that the real capital is more likely to see snow this year than London, Paris or Madrid.
The Share Christmas Fast and Fundraising Campaign has kicked off in Cork with students from 18 schools across the county participating in this years drive.
The fundraising campaign was officially launched with the opening of the SHARE Crib at Daunt Square on Monday, December 15 and is set to continue up to Christmas Eve.
Katie Bailey and her Grandmother Marie Houlihan from Cork help to decorate a Gingerbread House at Cork Airport this week in aid of ARC Cancer Support House Cork. The Gingerbread House is sponsored by Cork International Airport Hotel.
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