Cope Foundation has announced a new name to reflect the organisation’s vision and goal of supporting people with an intellectual disability and / or autism to live a life of their choosing. The Cork-based charity, which is now in its 67th year, is to be called Horizons with the new name, brand...

The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee TD, has today (Friday) published the first Corporate Plan for Cuan, the Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (DSGBV) Agency. The establishment of Cuan earlier this year was a key action under Minister McEntee’s Zero Tolerance strategy for combating domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Cuan...

Founded in 1899, Sunday’s Well Boating & Tennis Club is currently celebrating its 125th anniversary. The Club recently hosted their annual ‘Mary Collins Tennis Tournament’, which generated €5,535 for Edel House, Good Shepherd Cork’s shelter for women and children who are homeless. For the second year in a row, Edel House...

Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery has acquired two more paintings by one of Ireland’s best-known painters, Seán Keating.   The Keating paintings are amongst four artworks recently acquired at auction by Crawford Art Gallery for the National Collection.   Sean Keating’s Elijah with the Ravens, Version II (1930) and his self-portrait, c.1961, along with Winter Evening, Calary (1964) by abstract...

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin TD, has welcomed the Irish Aid annual report 2023 which details how Ireland responded to many of the world’s most pressing crises, including conflicts in the occupied Palestinian territory, Ukraine and Sudan, as well as underfunded emergencies in Syria, Yemen, and...