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Journalists from 'The Advocate' and 'Out Traveler', the biggest  gay publications in the US sampled Cork's visitor offering along with writers from the UK’s 'Diva' magazine.

 The trip was organised and led by Ursula Morrish from Visit Cork, a city and county council initiative, in association with the local LGBT organisations. It follows a visit in March by Swiss gay publication, 'Display' magazine.

 The visit included stops at the English Market, Victorian Quarter, Nano Nagle Place, and the Quay Co-Op, which was established in 1982 as a radical and alternative community project by a collective of gay, feminist, lesbian, environmental, and other groups.

 The delegation attended the Linc (Lesbians in Cork) Summer Party.

Sodexo Ireland is among the sponsors of the ‘What’s She Doing Here - Women at Work 1918-

2018’ Exhibition, running to 10th June 2018 at the Little Museum of Dublin. 

The company hosted an evening reception and viewing for its fellow members of the France-Ireland Chamber of Commerce. Country president Margot Slattery (2nd from right) was at the event with guest speaker Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, Minister of State for Higher Education, Mathieu Gorge, president of the France-Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Kathryn McCan

ce, development manager, Little Museum of Dublin.

The exhibition celebrates trailblazing Irish women over the past hundred years in the workplace, trades, professions and professional sporting arena. It includes stunning photographs and illustrations taken from two books, ‘A Woman’s Work’ by Beta Bajgartova and ‘Rocking the System, Fearless and Amazing Irish Women who made History,” by Siobhan Parkinson in addition to fil

ms, audio recordings and a Post-it poll for visitors to continue the conversation about equality and what it means in Ireland today.

Punchestown Racecourse has invested €4 million in a new stand that it plans to open on the first 

day of its annual festival next week.

 The Kildare Hunt-owned racecourse is working on a €6 million plan to upgrade facilities for punters.

The stand was completed on time and on budget.

Sponsors are contributing to the €3 million in prize money that Punchestown will offer this year, a new record for the festival. 

Punchestown is aiming to draw 125,000 people this year, up from 122,000 in 2017 and 114,000 in 2016. 

Music fans conerged on Trabolgan Holiday Village in Co. Cork over the weekend to take part in a 

new Festival called 'It Takes a Village'.

Instead of camping out, the festival goers stayed in the village's 172 self-catering houses.

The final day saw an influx of day-trippers. 

Acts from home and abroad played in the holiday village’s venues, bars and restaurants over the weekend.

It is planned to repeat the event in 2019