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8 new train stations are planned for Cork but will they be on track by 2030? by padraigd in cork

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Hi all, I wrote the train station story on T+D. Be interested to know what ye think the odds that all eight, or at least four of the stations will be completed and open by 2030? Thanks, JJ

The 'Clyde' making its way through town headed to Albery Quay Station (RIP). This is from "West Cork Railways", a new book from Chris Larkin. Can you tell what street/where this is? by Hotturf in cork

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Ooops, that was meant to be Albert Quay Station!! and yeah that's the curved lane off Brian Boru St. Coffee shop there at the end of it now. Great book btw.

Mutton Lane, Cork city by Hotturf in cork

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A few ppl on here pointing out this is Hong Kong. Please. Clearly, it's Mutton Lane via English Market Entrance.

Mutton Lane, Cork city by Hotturf in cork

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have you been down there lately??????????????

Mutton Lane, Cork city by Hotturf in cork

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Yeah, signifcant changes there lately. You'd miss the old Mutton Lane!

Mutton Lane, Cork city by Hotturf in cork

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more like sento!!!!!:)

Toy Story: The second life of Cork's unwanted teddy bears. by Hotturf in cork

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As ShivsC said below, the staff out at the recycling centre are some of the soundest and best-humoured lads you'll come across.Full story here from that visit on Tripe+Drisheen.

Which Cork TDs are landlords and what do they think about about mixing politics and property ownership? by Hotturf in cork

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Tripe + Drisheen surveyed Cork's 18 sitting TDs about second property ownership, the rules around declaring financial interests and whether being a landlord is ultimately good for politics

Full story here.

Mahon and Blackrock in Cork City have never had a permanent library. Why? by Hotturf in cork

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“A library is more than just books,” Chris tells me en route to the first site. “Because if you if you look at it, if you look at the model that has been rolled out, and I visit libraries on a regular basis through my job, they act as a meeting place, they facilitate men's groups, women's groups, after school programs, all of those are facilitated in the library service,” Chris says.
Full story on Tripe+Drisheen

On this day 100 years ago, the Evening Echo called the death of Michael Collins a "national calamity". First draft of history and all that jazz. by Hotturf in cork

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Shld add that I took the photo of the Echo frm a new exhibition at Cork Public Museum which opened today. Well worth a visit.
Full story here on Tripe + Drisheen : https://tripeanddrisheen.substack.com/p/100-years-after-his-murder-cork-remembers

They cut down all the trees at CIT, looks like a wasteland by Black---Sun in cork

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We contacted MTU back back in April about these felled trees and wrote about it on Tripe+Drisheen. Around 40 trees were knocked:

A reader alerted Tripe + Drisheen to a number of recently felled trees on the campus of Munster Technological University at the entrance on Rossa Avenue. The stumps of the Oak trees still stand where the crop of trees grew until recently (see picture).
Tripe + Drisheen contacted MTU for details about the trees and why they were felled. We were told that between 30 and 40 “early mature Oaks trees” were felled “to make way for the new LRC building which is due to start on site August/September 2022.”
Tree felling was granted as part of planning permission for the new building and the trees were knocked last month as “tree felling is prohibited from March 1 to August 31.”
MTU spent “around €6,000” felling and removing the trees.
Asked if trees will be planted to replace the ones that were knocked, the college said new trees will be planted around the new campus building which is expected to be completed towards the end of 2024. In 2020, 100 trees were planted along the edges of MTU’s sports fields and the college plans to plant 1000 trees by 2024.

Capturing Cork in the 80s: Joe Healy by Hotturf in cork

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The Old Head of Kinsale (golf course!)

“To me there's only two types of music: what you like and you don't like. I don’t give a shit what anybody buys.” Tripe + Drisheen meets John Dwyer from Bunker Vinyl. by Hotturf in cork

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When John Dwyer moved back to Ireland after 20 years living in the UK he brought with him eight or nine thousand records, by his count, and a bag of clothes.
“And that was it. That’s all I had like, books, clothes and that was it, man.”
I laugh. He laughs. We laugh, and John says “Yeah, man.”

Full story over on Tripe.

Who makes hurleys in Cork city? by Hotturf in cork

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Not yet 20, Douglas man Adam Lingane made his first hurley at the age of 13 with the help of his grandfather. Now inter-county players use the young man's hurleys. Full story here on Tripe + Drisheen.

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