☕️The Friday View 14/08
The solar eclipse was clouded out, but fun was had. Glanmire gets a greenway and a new park is planned but a not a public toilet. Also, it's heritage week all the way down.
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☕️The Friday View 07/08
A solar eclipse is coming, First Fridays are back and the Boole hosts a a great talk about music and making images tonight
☕️The Friday View 31/07
Traversing the length of the Lee, RTÉ's ongoing quest to find a new home in the city, Cork is a "personality", and our round-up of what's on for the bank holiday weekend.
The Friday View 24/07
Putting public art back in the city, getting it all wrong on O'Mahony's Avenue, not everyone in Moneygourney is happy and our round-up of what's on for the week ahead.
The Friday View 17/07
Event Centre competition, the sad legacy of the Boole House, Pana gets trees and what to do about Bessborough? Plus, our round-up of what's on for the week ahead.
☕️The Friday View 10/07
Event Centre update #7564: As the decades-long saga drags on, and the former City Council chief exec's astoundingly misguided prediction that we'd be piling into the front row to catch a show in 2026 looks about as likely as the Cork hurlers turning up in the second half of crunch matches, a City Council apparatchik admitted this week that the previous process “was flawed and not fit for purpose”.
The Friday View - week off
We're on one week break/pause, and we'll be back next week with our usual round-up of news and things to do across the city.
☕️The Friday View 26/06
It was officially "el scorchio" all this week - enough to send you into a lido, if we had one. Elsewhere, submissions for the Event Centre have closed (again). Plus our usual round-up of what's on.
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☕️The Friday View 19/06
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