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CORK COUNTY COUNCIL is lighting up its Christmas lights today – earlier than usual in an effort to drum up support for local businesses and to keep people’s spirits up.
The Council is turning its Christmas lights on in every town and village at 7pm today. It’s also encouraging people to join in by lighting up a window in their home or business “in a moment of hope and solidarity”.
This is part of the Council’s ‘A Real Cork Christmas’ initiative, which was announced on 2 November and is designed to “bolster” communities and businesses in Co Cork.
The Council said that it aimed to promote “the vibrant range of gifts and products on sale locally”, ensure Christmas is still celebrated in a “safe and meaningful way”; and create a sense of solidarity and hope among the people of Cork, despite the challenges.
Tens of millions of euro are spent in Cork in the run up to Christmas, the Council says, but with limits on shops, restaurants, and other business owners due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Council is urging Cork county’s 300,000 citizens to support local.
Other initiatives include:
Mayor of Cork County, Councillor Mary Linehan Foley, said: “The introduction of Level 5
restrictions has come as a significant blow for our local retailers, who had been relying on the run up to Christmas to make up for lost time and business earlier in the pandemic.
“Many retailers in Co Cork have geared up for click-and-collect, phone-and-collect and online sales, and we now need to show our support for our family and friends by making sure that what we spend this Christmas stays local.
As a community, we will celebrate Christmas as best we can while protecting and supporting each other. I look forward to leading by example, and spending as much as I can with Cork businesses in the weeks ahead.
’ARCC’ is an extension of ‘Project ACT’, which was established earlier in the pandemic.
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I’d love to get his autograph on a letter of resignation.
@Cillian McCormick: Wouldn’t that be something especially accompanied by other resignation letters
There’s still time for a Christmas miracle.
Wonker
Let’s call a spade a spade, an awful lot more don’t like him.
Hardly surprising on the face of it as Fine Gael are a pro life party and Enda himself has stated his position on the matter clearly:
‘This is a Catholic country – there will be no abortion in this republic as long as I’m in office’.
@Alex Falcone: thankfully he will not always be in office.. As a matter of fact I would say his time in office is coming to an end sooner rather than later. Happy Xmas Alex, cal, noah, Isaac, eunuch Burke.
@Alex Falcone: can you direct me to where you found that “quote”? The only one I can find is this one, which pretty much contradicts yours completely…. “I am a Taoiseach who happens to be Catholic but not a Catholic Taoiseach” enda Kenny , when passing abortion legislation despite backlash from your Bishops.
@Dell: Seems like Alex has run away into his safe place.You will find that precious snowflakes like him will do that when they are found out with their BS.
@Alex Falcone: “‘This is a Catholic country – there will be no abortion in this republic as long as I’m in office’.”
A Catholic country that has gay marriage? Yeah you keep fooling yourself into thinking that :-)
@Clon Lad:
‘Precious snowflake’
Have you just suggested I’m a liberal?
Right, I’m contacting my solicitor immediately.
@Alex Falcone: you couldn’t reach the level of liberal on your mammy’s Shoulders . Ya know, the one you pretended to not be related to on the radio when you were both complaining about same sex marriage. So Alex _eunuch.. Show us where that “quote”‘ came from… . Or were you lying? That’s a sin you know ? A Big no no with the great big deity in the sky you believe in.
@Dell:
Have you missed an appointment with your psychiatrist lately?
Why redact the names and addresses of the senders? Why make the emails and letters anonymous?
@Micheal OLainn: why do you want to harass them?
@Micheal OLainn: Very simply Michael – the mails were a private communication between the sender and the recipient. This should always be respected no matter who the senders or recipients are.
No need to redact all the email addresses… some of them were clearly from mammykenny@gmail.com
Those autographs are probably for African gang members for forgeries. Kenny probably falls for it every time. Then some money goes missing from the state coffers, and its raise taxes again and hide the losses in the water debt fiasco.
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