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3 Brown Thomas Cork officially kicked off festivities by unveiling its highly anticipated Christmas windows. Claire McCarthy from Carrigaline pictured at Enable Ireland’s launch of Win A House Cork. The charity is raffling a showhouse, a car to the value of €25,000 and €5,000 cash. Tickets are priced at €100 and may be purchased on winahousecork.ie to raise vital funds for the new Lavanagh Children’s Services Centre in Cork (raffle being held Friday, 16th April 2021). Dominic Daly, Hon. Belgian Consul for Southern Ireland recently received a Knighthood from Belgium recognising his 30 years of service as Hon. Belgian Consul in Southern Ireland. Pictured at the presentation Cllr Ben Dalton O’Sullivan (Independent councillor, Carrigaline Municipal District - Proposer of Presentation), Dominic J. Daly, The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Mary Linehan Foley. 4
5 Aircoach’s iconic blue bus turns green as FAI & Aircoach Announce Partnership: Dervla McKay, Managing Director, Aircoach, with manager Stephen Kenny pictured at the Aircoach announcement of the new partnership with the Football Association of Ireland to become the Official Transport Provider to Ireland’s senior men and women’s teams. Amarenco Group successfully closes a €150 million new capital commitment. Tikehau Capital becomes a cornerstone shareholder to support Amarenco’s growth in solar power production. We are happy to welcome Pierre Devillard and Pierre Abadie from the private equity team of Tikehau Capital to our board”, declared Amarenco’s co-founders Olivier Carré, Nick Howard, John Mullins and Alain Desvigne. 6 National Business Machines (NBM), headquartered in Cork and celebrating its 35th year in business, last year announced a €750,000 investment and expansion of their business, largely focussed on infrastructure and personnel.
Abtran, the Cork based Business Process Outsourcing company, was instrumental in supporting the success of the RTE Late Late Toy Show Appeal. The Irish company’s staff in Cork and Sligo took donations over the phone for the weekend of the Toy Show and helped raise over 6 million euro for children’s charities.
Funds donated through the RTE Toy Show Appeal will go to The Community Foundation for Ireland who will distribute to various children’s charities including Barnardos, Children’s Health Foundation, and Children’s Books Ireland.
Abtran CEO, Aisling Deasy commented, “Abtran are proud to support the RTE Late Late Toy Show Appeal. All charities’ fundraising efforts have been profoundly impacted by Covid. To this end, we’re delighted to support vulnerable children in our society by playing our part. Our people have been wonderful giving up their time to support this great cause while working within the necessary strict guidelines and protocols including social distancing. We were totally overwhelmed by the generously of the Irish public, raising 6 million in just 24 hours. It was a privilege for Abtran to be part of this ”
Energy Cork announce New Chair
Michelle O’Sullivan, Senior Public Affairs Executive and Sustainable Cork Programme Lead at Cork Chamber is the newly appointed Chair of Energy Cork, taking over the role in November from previous Chair, Jackie Quinn. Energy Cork is an industrydriven cluster pursuing coordinated actions to strengthen sustainable enterprise and employment within the energy sector in the Cork region. As part of her role as Chair, Michelle will use this time to progress emerging opportunities, further exploring the significant and exceptional potential of Cork as Ireland’s Energy Hub. Boost for Cork’s pharma and health tech future as major educational funding announced
UCC, CIT and industry partners came together to develop the ‘iEd Hub’ which will produce a new generation of graduates. The iED Hub project is being led by Professor Helen Whelton, Head of the College of Medicine and Health at UCC and Dr Mark Tangney a senior researcher in the College.
