Win your wedding with Cork Independent & Cork International Hotel!

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Fantastic prize launched by the Cork Independent today: you can win your wedding! It’s open until the 6th February. Check it out!

Photo owned by SixteenEighteen (cc)
Fantastic prize launched by the Cork Independent today: you can win your wedding! It’s open until the 6th February. Check it out!
Off to Midleton in Cork for a wedding tonight. See you in a few days.


These are some of the caricatures I prepared for a staff competition in EMC Cork. I was there for their Diversity Day activities, including world foods and dance demonstrations. Thankfully I remained sitting and no-one lost any eyes or toes.
The staff had to guess which of the bosses the caricatures were. It wasn’t too hard and they got great laughs!







I was entertaining in Cork on Friday night in the Imperial Hotel at the wedding of Carol and Shane (congratulations again guys!). I went down a treat, if I may say so myself! I took loads of photos which I’ll break up over a few posts. Here are some more:





Incidently I went for a dander round Cork the next day and saw parts of Cork are under the jackhammer of urban renewal.I’ve quite an interest in monumental sculpture so was having a good gock around when I saw this:

It caught my eye as he’s clearly supposed to be bearing a flag. So any Corkonians know what happened to Dwyer’s arm?
I’m planning a post later on the Concern development education workshops I facilitated around the country last month. I had a great bunch of Transition Year students in Galway, Dublin and Cork. This is an ongoing project aimed at raising awareness of global child exploitation. There are currently over 200 million children being used for labour in the world today.