The tourism industry gathered at Croke Park to attend Fáilte Ireland’s first national conference on driving climate action in tourism businesses. The conference provided practical supports for businesses in measuring and reducing their carbon footprint.  More than 200 tourism businesses attended from across the country and Minister for Tourism Catherine Martin TD

A Christmas video highlighting what makes Christmas in Cork special has been released to launch Cork City Council’s ‘Thank Cork Its Christmas’ campaign to support the city’s retail, food producers, hospitality, arts and culture sectors. Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Colm Kelleher said, “it is heartening to see, in line with public health guidelines, the return […]

Dublin City Council has awarded the development of a consolidated operations depot to Purcell Construction. The depot will cover the local authority’s north city operations including Waste Management, Housing Maintenance, Public Lighting and Electrical Services, Traffic Management, Surface Water and Drainage (excluding foul drainage/Irish Water activities), Signage and

If you can’t make it to the Burren, let the Burren come to you! COUNCIL JOURNAL is giving away two delicious hampers produced locally by the Burren Smokehouse who are members of the Burren Food Trail. The Burren Food Trail is part of the Burren Ecotourism Network. To be in with a chance to win one […]

Cork City Council agreed an expenditure budget of €222.340 million for 2020 at its annual budget meeting this evening – an increase of over €55 million in spending compared to this year. €37 million of this increase comes due to the extension of the city boundary with another €18,197,000 being general expenditure increase on the […]