INS IDE
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Serving Cork for 120 years
Offering our young people opportunity: Pages 22 & 23
Edition No: 36024
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Let’s head to Boston for a tea party! See Down Town
PRAYERS ANSWERED BY SON-IN-LAW’S REQUEST – ON THE BUSES: PAGE 4
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Give us Budget break say mums CityJet announce Running for your love! €69 French routes TWO new routes have been announced from Cork to France – a twice-weekly flight to La Rochelle and a weekly flight to Nantes. CityJet, the Irish European regional airline, announced its new routes from Cork Airport, a week after launching its new airlink between Cork and London City Airport. The airline will begin flights to the French cities of Nantes and La Rochelle next June, providing direct jet services to the French regions which are traditionally popular with Irish visitors. Cork to La Rochelle will operate twice weekly on Tuesday and Saturday with Cork to Nantes weekly on Sundays. The announcement was made at the Cork Chamber of Commerce’s October Business Breakfast. Fares will start at €69 each way. CityJet’s executive chairman, Pat Byrne, said the routes will also open up Cork to French visitors.
WEATHER TONIGHT
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CORK mothers say that they have taken all that they can by way of cuts, calling for the reduction of the Universal Social Charge and extension of child benefit in Budget 2016.
Conor Flynn, with his new-born baby daughter, Leyla Estelle. Conor was due to run the Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon for charity but couldn’t as his partner went into labour. He returned a week later to complete the course. See page 8 for the full story.
Áine Burke, a mother of three from Cobh, says that middle income earners have become “used to being poor”. “There is no money in my purse at the end of the week and for five years that’s how it has been.” she says. “Everything is cut back and you are still paying the same bills, still trying to get your children to college. “What I want out of the budget is the USC gone, the property tax gone and I want at least €50 in my purse on a Friday after I pay the bills.” Vi v i e n n e F a r r e l l , a l s o a C o b h mother, agrees that workers have been squeezed by austerity.
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2016 ■ Audrey Ellard Walsh “You look into your purse at the end of the week and if you have €20 in it you’re doing very well. “You lie awake at night worrying about how you’re going to cover the mortgage, put food on the table, buy a bag of coal.” With her eldest child in college Ms Farrell suggests the extension of Child Benefit for those going onto third level education, saying that it would “ease the pressure that is constantly at the back of our mind.” ■ See pages 10 and 11 for more budget coverage.