Posts Tagged ‘ Cork ’

Campaign For Children – Cork Meeting Wednesday 25th

January 24, 2012
By Stephen
Campaign For Children – Cork Meeting Wednesday 25th

The Campaign for Children will be holding a public meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 25th, at 6pm in the Geogrpahy Lecture Hall in UCC. It is part of a series of public meetings to inform people about the work of the campaign. The Campaign is chaired by Former Supreme Court Justice Catherine McGuinness. Its board also contains some influential people, including Fergus Finlay of Barnardos and Olivia O’Leary. The Campaign raises very important issues and more importantly has suggestions to how they should be solved....

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Wave Change Cork

November 22, 2011
By Stephen
Wave Change Participants

Over the 12th and 13th of November I spent time in the Cork School Music on the Wave Change  programme from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland which I blogged about here. Over the two days there were speakers, such as Bill Liao and Myles McCorry of Bike Pure. We also had workshops on online and offline communication as well as some activities to get us thinking and learning about our skills. There was also a great opportunity to brain storm our ideas and help...

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The Count 2011!

October 28, 2011
By Stephen
The Count 2011!

  Its all over. The candidates can lie in this morning as its now the turn of the political hacks who all across the country will be turning up to the count centres across the 43 constituencies to start tallying the Presidential Election. The boxes will be opened at 9am when the votes will be sorted and tallied. Then the Votes for the presidential election will be sorted. Once sorted the votes will be counted and the result sent to Dublin. We wont have...

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Wave Change

October 13, 2011
By Stephen
Wave Change

Are you aged between 18-25? Do want to see Social Change in Ireland? Do  you want to change something in Irish Society? Check out Wave Change. Wave Change is a new programme being launched by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland for 18-25 year-olds who believe that they have a role to play in building the Ireland we all want to live in and who want to have a stronger voice in society.  The programme provides training, development, seed funding and networking opportunities...

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Tonights Liveblog!

May 18, 2011
By Stephen
Tonights Liveblog!

As part of my tweeting from the We The Citizens event I shall be interacting (well attempting to) with everyone else who is watching the events unfold! You can also take part using the tag #citizens Do check out the Liveblog Click Here. In the mean time check out my posts on We the Citizens. VLOG: We the Citizens We The Citizens hits Cork this week We The Citizens

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VLOG: We the Citizens

May 18, 2011
By Stephen
VLOG: We the Citizens

So ahead of tonights We The Citizens event in the Clarion Cork tonight I decided to a Video Blog! Its mainly about the reactions I have gotten to bringing up the We the Citizens event and around citizens involvement, oh I hate cynical viewpoints! Do let me know what you think! PS Don’t forget I will be tweeting from the event tonight! So do follow me on twitter! Related articles We The Citizens hits Cork this week. (stephenspillane.com) We The...

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We The Citizens hits Cork this week.

May 17, 2011
By Stephen
We The Citizens hits Cork this week.

On Wednesday, We The Citizens are holding their event in Cork this week. The event is taking place in the Clarion Hotel in Cork at 6:15pm. To attend sign up on their website. To see what happened in Killkenny see the video below or check out what was said and the big talking points I will be tweeting from the event so make sure follow me on twitter of follow the #citizens tag. I may run a live blog...

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We The Citizens

April 12, 2011
By Stephen
We The Citizens

We The Citizens launched today. Its an interesting idea that is trying to get people to stand up and get involved to change Ireland. They plan to hold a National Citizens Assembly in June following events in n Kilkenny, Cork, Galway, Athlone, Letterkenny and Dublin. I shall be attending the event in Cork. We The Citizens plans on keeping the pressure on politicians to reform our country for the better and ensure that they keep their promises. It will be an interesting...

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Preparing for the Count

February 25, 2011
By Stephen
Preparing for the Count

So tonight its all about the preparation for the tally tomorrow. I have to be in the concert hall in Cork City Hall.  I shall be doing the tally for Cork South Central but Cork North Central will be counted in the same hall. I will be trying to keep people updated on both counts on twitter. Keep an eye on the #tags #CNC and #CSC Check out Mamanpoulet.com for more ways to follow the counts tomorrow. Also there...

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Crash at Cork Airport

February 10, 2011
By Stephen
Crash at Cork Airport

A crash happened this morning before 10am at Cork Airport. Manx2 Flight NM7100 from Belfast to Cork crashed in fog on its third attempt to land. 6 people have been confirmed dead. 12 people were on board the plane. The Airport is currently closed. All arriving  flights have been diverted to Shannon, all departing flights have been cancelled. Ryanair’s flights will be operating to and from Shannon. All travellers are advised to check with their airline before making alternative arrangements. All...

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