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Cork's 96FM

This was followed by Neil Prendeville's first show, the first song played was "A New Flame" by Simply Red – a chart hit at the time.


1975 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

Cork took command after the first ten minutes of their semi-final and dethroned champions Kilkenny, leading by 3-1 to 1-2 at half time with Pat Maloney adding a fourth goal in the second half and by the 14th minute Dublin led 3-5 to 3-2.

1979 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Cork entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were beaten by Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final.

1984 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

Paddy Barry of Cork’s 1952 team was followed by Wexford’s Nick O'Donnell, who had recently been named on the GAA Hurling Team of the Century as the greatest full-back in the history of the game and was captain of Wexford’s 1955 and 1960 All-Ireland winning teams.

Alison Cork

In 2011 Cork launched two furniture collections for Made.com.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1981

The 1981 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Buffers Alley from Wexford, who defeated Killeagh from Cork in the final, played at Gaultier .

Aloys Fleischmann

His father, Aloys Fleischmann senior of Dachau (1880–1964), organist and choir master at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St Anne, Cork and his mother, Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882–1967), born in Cork to German parents, pianist and piano teacher.

Apollon XI

She was chartered by Burns & Laird Lines Ltd. for the service between Belfast and Liverpool, also from Cork to Fishguard, Dublin to Liverpool and for the service Glasgow - Dublin - Liverpool.

Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly

Baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly in County Cork, also referred to as Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly, in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Barry McSweeney

He also worked as Director of Medical Business for Biocon Biochemicals in Cork and Sées, France, and as European Product Development Manager for the American Hospital Supply Corporation.

Bartholomew MacCarthy

Bartholomew MacCarthy (b. Conna, Ballynoe, County Cork, 12 Dec., 1843; d. Inniscarra, Co. Cork, 6 Mar., 1904) was a scholar and chronologist who wrote extensively on Early Irish literature.

Brian Cuthbert

Born in Bishopstown, Cork, Cuthbert first excelled at Gaelic football in his youth.

Bus Éireann

Additional services within Ireland include city services in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford and town services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Drogheda, Dundalk, Navan and Sligo.

Channel South

Channel South is a cable television channel operating in Cork, Limerick, and parts of County Kerry, County Waterford, County Clare and South Tipperary since November 2008, Republic of Ireland.

City of Saints and Madmen

Reception was positive, with Irish Theatre Magazine describing the piece as "athletic and enterprising... astutely adapted and directed..... an imaginatively realised piece of work," and Cork's Evening Echo saying that it possessed "a visual verve that is quite a rarity on the Irish stage." The piece was adapted and directed by Bob Kelly, an Irish graduate of L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Conor Counihan

This victory was all the more special as the Cork hurling team had already won their respective All-Ireland title a fortnight earlier.

Cork and Muskerry Light Railway

The initial lines westwards from Cork to Blarney and Coachford opened in 1887 and 1888 respectively, the railway was built close to the south bank of the River Lee as far as a station at Coachford Junction, 6½ miles west of Cork.

Cork Mid

Cork Mid (or Mid Cork) may refer to one of two parliamentary constituencies in County Cork, in the South of Ireland

Dan Wallace

A former customs clerk with the Ford Motor Company in Cork, Wallace was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1981 and February 1982 general elections.

Desmond Clarke

Desmond M. Clarke is an author and former professor of philosophy at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland.

Earl of Cork

Edward of Norwich, Earl of Rutland, the first son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, fifth son of Edward III of England, favorite of his cousin Richard II, had been created Earl of Cork in the Peerage of Ireland during his nephew's personal reign.

Essex Regiment

In March 1921 at Crossbarry in County Cork, the Essex regiment encircled the IRAs "West Cork Flying Column" with 1,200 troops and soon managed to expose a company sized element of the IRA.

Fernand Auberjonois

Fernand Auberjonois (September 25, 1910, Valeyres-sous-Montagny, near Lausanne, Switzerland–August 27, 2004, Cork, Ireland) was a highly respected journalist who worked as the foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade.

Florence O'Donoghue

Florence O'Donoghue (1895–18 December 1967) was an Irish historian and head of intelligence of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

Gaelic games county colours

As Cork is nicknamed the "Rebel County", its fans have also flown the Rebel Flag of the American Civil War.

Garda Síochána College

There are direct trains to and from stations like Dublin Heuston railway station (8 trains avg), Thurles (9 trains avg) Cork (4 trains avg) and Limerick (4 trains avg) daily.

Guerrilla Phase of the Irish Civil War

They held out in areas such as the western part of counties Cork and Kerry in the south, County Wexford in the east and counties Sligo and Mayo in the west.

Hillbilly's

Today the chain has nine locations throughout Ireland, including three restaurants in Cork, and restaurants in Derry, Dublin, Ennis, Letterkenny, Tralee, and Waterford.

John K'Eogh

He wrote Botanologia Universalis Hibernicaor, or a general Irish Herbal Cork, 1735, a herbal, or book about medicinal plants, written in Manx (not Irish but related), phonetic English, and Latin, Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica or, a Treatise on Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles or Insects known and propagated in this Kingdom, and Vindication of the Antiquities of Ireland Dublin, 1748, in which he gives an account of his family.

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

King married Catherine (died 1669), daughter of Sir William Fenton, of Mitchelstown, County Cork, and left two sons, Robert (died. 1693) and John successively second and third lords Kingston.

Kundt's tube

The tube is a transparent horizontal pipe which contains a small amount of a fine powder such as cork dust, talc or Lycopodium.

Luke Wadding

Wadding collected the funds for the establishment of the College of St. Isidore in Rome, for the education of Irish priests, opened 24 June 1625, with four lecturers—Anthony O'Hicidh of a famous literary family in Thomond, Martin Breathnach from Donegal, Patrick Fleming from Louth, and John Punch from Cork.

MacSwiney

Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920), Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence, died on hunger strike in British jail

Magna Science Adventure Centre

Tim Caulton directed exhibition development, introducing spectacular exhibits that bridged science and art, such as Ned Kahn's fire tornado, "The Big Melt" (described below) and works by San Francisco 'artist in electricity' Cork Marcheschi.

Maria McErlane

She frequently spends time with Graham in his house near Cork, Ireland.

Martin Coleman

Cork were never really troubled over the course of the seventy minutes and a Jimmy Barry-Murphy goal helped the team to a 1-15 to 2-8 victory over their age-old rivals.

Neal Horgan

Horgan played a role in Cork City's League of Ireland winning campaign in 2005, and also found time to complete a Law degree in 2006.

North Tipperary

The centre is known as 'the Golden Vale', a rich pastoral stretch of land in the Suir basin which extends into counties Limerick and Cork.

Odlums Group

In the early 20th century, the company operated as many as nine mills but consolidation reduced that number to the current three flour mills in Dublin, Cork, and Portarlington and an oatmeal mill in Sallins.

Pat Dolan

Dolan had finished building a strong team at Cork, following the good work first laid out by Dave Barry and then Liam Murphy, and the club went on to win the league title in 2005 under new manager Damien Richardson, with the notable addition of Roy O'Donovan.

Phil Flynn

Ted Cunningham, the Cork based financial adviser convicted of laundering £3 million of the sum stolen by the IRA in the 2004 Northern Bank robbery stated "Phil Flynn is the boss behind everything" in a garda interview about the robbery introduced in evidence in Cunningham's trial.

Richard Hingston

After the second world war Major Hingston retired to his home in Passage West Co.Cork.

River Lee

In November to December 2009 the river flooded, inflicting the worst damage on the City of Cork for over 800 years.

Rockies

The Rockies, Cork, Ireland, the nickname of Blackrock National Hurling Club, an historic sports team in Cork, Ireland

Séamus Harnedy

Harnedy's mother, Cathy Landers, was an All-Ireland-winning captain with the Cork camogie team, while his father, Seán Harnedy, played with the Waterford team.

St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh

The original thirteenth century cathedral of the diocese, situated in the small east Cork town of Cloyne, was owned by the Church of Ireland.

William Cosgrove

William Cosgrove was born at Aghada, County Cork on 1 October 1888, the son of Michael and Mary Cosgrove.

Willie Cummins

Cummins’s sons, Kevin, Ray and Brenadan, all wore the red jersey of Cork at various levels from the 1960s until the 1980s.

Willie Griffin

After a period in the wilderness the Cork team bounced back in 1952 with Griffin capturing a Munster winners' medal following a defeat of three-in-a-row All-Ireland champions Tipperary in the provincial decider.

Wilton Guerrero

Plate umpire Steve Ripley noticed cork in one of the shattered pieces, and showed it to crew chief and third-base umpire Bruce Froemming, who immediately ejected Guerrero.


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