Floods in Cork @TodaywithClaire pic.twitter.com/smuMB9pkhO
— paul moran (@paulmor21190726) October 20, 2020
Save the hooch!
It’s Murphy’s.
Let her go so.
FIGHT!
Earlier: But It Pours
Tag Archives: Cork
But It Pours
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Past high tide; water levels rising; streets flooding now. #Cork @rtenews pic.twitter.com/TaxQYjFKuL
— Paschal Sheehy (@PaschalSheehy) October 20, 2020
Water is pouring down Oliver Plunkett St at 8.48am this morn.
Your heart goes out to city’s traders so pls folks, when we get the place cleaned up #shoplocal like never before @LEOCorkCity @CBA_cork @CorkChamber #COVID19ireland pic.twitter.com/a94vxhYg4j
— Cork City Council (@corkcitycouncil) October 20, 2020
This morning.
Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.
A moment of sporting brilliance.
Tanya O’Neill, of KCS Sports, writes:
Check out my new t-shirt design celebrating [Cork Hurler] John Fenton‘s 1987 ‘”goal for the purists”…only 19.95…
Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
MacCurtains
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BREAKING: Fire-fighters are at the scene of a fire on a building site on MacCurtain St in #Cork pic.twitter.com/TqsbkyON1d
— Eoin English (@EoinBearla) September 24, 2020
This afternoon.
More as we get it.
Grotto Dublin Hill #Cork late 1950s#LoveCork #PureCork #Corklike
Photo: Blackpool rare & recent photos pic.twitter.com/y3gxw6tGKk— IrishFamilyDetective (@Fiona_Forde_Irl) September 18, 2020
Late 1950s
A laconic gent, possibly pub-bound, ambles on Dublin Hill, Cork.
Name that jammer, anyone?
September 17, 1967.
Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett play the Arcadia ballroom in Cork city.
Paul McDermott writes:
The only gig in the country! “Full psychedelic lighting and effects”. The Arc gig was a few weeks after Piper at the Gates of Dawn [Pink Floyd’s first album] was released…
Played Ballymena [County Antrim] the night before. Band drove to Cork, Roger [Waters] at the wheel, zooming down country roads, Gardai pulled him over and gave him a warning about how he could kill a kid. Rog said he never forgot it!
Aci-eeeed.
From top: Interior of bus: Cork’s 96FM’s PJ Coogan (lefgt) with Patrick (centre) and Adrian Walsh
This morning.
Cork’s 96FM Opinion Line with PJ Coogan.
PJ Coogan speaking to Patrick Walsh and his son Adrian, who have been living in a disused bus near a river just 15 minutes from Cork City Centre.
Deirdre O’Shaughnessy writes:
They heat the bus with diesel from their van. They use a chemical toilet, and they wash in the nearby river, which regularly floods. The windows of the bus blew in during the recent stormy weather.
Adrian has a brain injury and has numerous medical problems. His mother, who used to wash clothes and cook for the men, died suddenly in May.
They are currently receiving assistance from Saint Vincent de Paul and Headway but their situation is looking increasingly desperate as Winter approaches…
This Summer.
At the watersports and activity centre Oysterhaven in Kinsale, Co Cork.
Safe Haven Ireland and Welcome Wave launched the first year of their five-year instructor incubator project for children living in direct provision.
Today, Safe Haven Ireland writez:
“A few snaps of our trainees (taken and shared with permission) in full swing in their sailing courses.”
The aim is that some of the initial group of young sailors will progress to instructor level.
In fairness.
Children leave direct provision behind to make waves sailing (Liz Dunphy, Irish Examiner)
Previously: All Aboard
This morning.
Bantry, County Cork.
Repairs taking place on New Streetin Bantry, County Cork, today after flooding last night caused by Storm Francis.
How bad was it?
Gulp.
Last night.
Meanwhile….
At Ballyhilty outside #Skibbereen – where once were fields! #flooding #StormFrancis pic.twitter.com/XiD6u5eSKw
— The Southern Star (@SouthernStarIRL) August 25, 2020
Dublin city, 1956
One of a selection of noir-esque images from famed photojournalist Peter Bock-Schroeder, now available online.
In 1956, Bock-Schroeder spent several days walking through Dublin and documented the everyday life of the capital.
Ireland By Chance (Peter Bock-Schroeder)
Donerail?
Boycott Foreign press?
in 1954, a British journalist, Honor Tracy, condemned Donerail, County Cork parish priest Canon Maurice O’Connell for spending the then exorbitant amount of £9,000 on his parochial house while there was so much poverty in the village.
Following The Sunday Times’ apology to O’Connell, Tracy sued it and was awarded £3000 in compensation. In response some 3000 of Doneraile’s parishioners marched in the village in support of Canon O’Connell,…
Good times.
Thanks Mark Geary