Councillor Activities
Membership of Cork City Council Related Committees:
Planning Functional Committee (specific interests: Enterprise & business promotion, dereliction, revamp of Cork Docklands Plan, heritage incorporation and adequate place making in city development plans to include community resources and recreational areas)
Housing Functional Committee (specific interests: vacancy of housing, community development viz a viz promotion of community warden schemes and activities)
Recreation and Amenity Functional Committee (specific interests: promotion of educational programmes, arts, heritage, tourism and cultural development in the city)
Recreation and Amenity Strategic Planning Committee (specific interests: development strategies to promote municipal educational programmes, civic awareness, arts, heritage, tourism and cultural development in the city)
Board of Directors, National Sculpture Factory, Cork
Board of Directors, Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork
Chair, Cork-San Francisco sister city sub committtee (specific interests: development of new business contacts and development of cultural packages between the two cities)
Motions to Cork City Council and follow-up: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?page_id=1456
2012 issues:
- Housing representations
- Traffic calming measures
- Calls to deal with dereliction on Barrack Street
- Policing issues, Japanese Gardens
- Dogs Home issues
- Affordable Housing issues
- Broadcasting of Cork City Council’s ‘Pulses of Tradition’ show to San Francisco on UPS.com
- Skehard Road Roundabout
- George Boole House, Bachelor’s Quay
- ‘High Hedge’ legislation, high private hedges not being cut and encroaching on other properties.
- Tramore Valley Draft Masterplan
Kieran’s Community Events 2012:
- McCarthy’s Design a Public Park, Art Competition 2012: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?page_id=1390
Results: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8223
- Historical walking tour of Douglas Village, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8429
- McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition, 2012
Announcement: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8624
Results: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6448
- Historical walking tour of Blackrock Village
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8641
- Historical walking tour of St Finbarr’s Hospital
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8799
McCarthy’s Make a Model Boat Project 2012, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8737
- Kieran’s Heritage Week, 18-25 August 2012, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8957
- Historical Walking Tour of Blackrock, 22 September 2012
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=9044
Views from a Park, A walking tour across the new park on the old Kinsale Road landfill, includes a history of South Douglas Road & its environs, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=8969
- Docklands (From Jewtown, to Fords to Kennedy Park) http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=9077
2011 issues:
-Housing representations
- Traffic calming measures, Ballinure Road, Mahon
- Anti-social behaviour, Ballinlough & Mahon
- Call for car-parking initiatives in Cork City Carparks
- Ward funding allocation process, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?page_id=1440
- Call for testing of waters and clean-up of Atlantic Pond
- Beamish and Crawford Re-development Project, South Main Street - calls for review, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=5448; http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=5633
- Dog fouling
- Cleaning up of Douglas Swimming Pool Area
- Clearance of Japanese Knotweed, Blackrock Village
- AGM addresses at Ballinlough, Blackrock and Mahon Community Associations
- Calls for reviews of draft Cork City Arts Plan including a section for young people
- Calls for review of Blackpool Local Area Plans to encompass the history and heritage of the area.
- Calls to save the community warden scheme from being cut
- Support for the City’s first skateboarding festival through the auspices of the Cork committee in the Cork-San Francisco twinning committee
- calls for an emergency economic plan for the city
- Skehard Road, road re-alignment
- Revamp of intoxication bye-laws for the city
- Calls for incorporation of Christ Church and Bishop Lucey to create a city heritage quarter
- Calls for a tourism development plan for the city
- Calls for ramps on the Marina
- Calls for an economic plan for the city
Kieran’s Community Events 2011:
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?page_id=1390
- Shortlisted for Best Irish Political Blog, Irish Blog Awards (thanks to whoever nominated me!)
- grants for enterprise course, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=5565
- grants for cost effective marketing business course, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=5719
-Member on committee for ‘Lets Connect’, conference to raise awareness of autism
- McCarthy’s History in Action, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6196
- Kieran’s Lifelong Learning Festival activites (10-17 April 2011)
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6180
- Historical walking tour of St. Finbarr’s Hospital, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6339
- McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition 2011
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6448
- McCarthy’s Artist in Residence Programme, 2011
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6412
- Involvement with Friends of St. Finbarr Garden Party, delivering of historical walking tour of St. Finbarr’s Hospital
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6697
- McCarthy’s Make a Model Boat Project
http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6722; http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=67
- Kieran’s Summer Walking Tours, Old Cork Blackrock Railway Line & Ballinlough,
Pictures from Ballinlough Historical Walking Tour: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=7002
Pictures from Railway Line Historical Walking Tour: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=6995
- Kieran’s Heritage Week, Late August 2011, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=7202, pictures: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=7333
- Want to attend an enterprise programme with Cork City Enterprise Board, September 2011, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=7306
- Participation in Cork’s Culture Night, 23 September 2011, Lifetime Lab, Lee Road, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=7377
- Creation of historical exhibition on the building of Cork City Hall and Cork in the 1920s & 1930s to mark the 75th anniversary of the opening of Cork City Hall, Cork City Hall Foyer, September- October 2011
- Participation in Celebrating Cork’s Past, Historical Exhibition, October 2011
- Want to attend a social media programme with Cork City Enterprise Board, October 2011 http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=7449
- Support for Evening Echo Cork Community Quiz in association with Cork City Council
Kieran’s Council Issues 2010:
Housing allocation representations
Dereliction issues and urban renewal
Environmental issues and dog fouling
Kinsale Road landfill redevelopment
Ward funding paperwork and allocations
Motions concerning the tidying up of derelict sites in the city centre
Meetings with tourist bodies in an effort to improve the promotion of Cork CIty
Revamp of Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Revamp of Blackrock Pier area
Revamp of Lee Rowing Club slipway
ESB issues
Sewer issues
Deportation orders
Kieran’s Council Issues, 2009:
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Right of way issues in Skehard Road
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Footpath issues on Evergreen Road
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Window damp proofing problems, Boreenmanna Road
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Japanese Knotweed outbreak at Blackrock Pier (work with Parks Department, City Council)
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Talks with Cllr. Des Cahill regarding European Regional Funding for Blackrock Pier and Environs
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Talks with Mr. Donal Healy, Chief Executive, Cork Business Association (clamping, parking, motions for alleviation in September’s and October’s City Council meeting)
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Call for the investigation of the water quality of the Atlantic Pond (work with Parks Department)
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Call for the revamp of historical plaques on North Main Street (work with City Archaeologist)
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Call for interpretative Panels on the history of the city across the city centre (motion, City Council meeting)
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Call for a clean-up of the environs of Kyrl’s Quay Medieval Wall (motion, City Council meeting)
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Call for the re-opening of the viewing ramp at Elizabeth Fort (work with OPW)
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Call for the fixing of Berwick Fountain pumping system (question to CIty Manager)
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Call for an investigation into derelict premises (former Melmacs) on Ballinlough Road (query to Planning, Cork City Council)
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Call for environmental improvements of Douglas Swimming Pool Car Park
Kieran’s Community Events 2010
Participation through giving lectures in the Lifelong Learning Festival
Implementation of Discover Cork Schools’ Heritage Project (City and County Editions)
Local history talk in St Anthony’s School to the third classes
Talk with Student Council Regina Mundi secondary school
Attendance and participation at ward community association AGMs
Attendance (and participation!) at over 60’s singing competitions (great fun)
Participation in the Re-Discover Cork showcase/ initiative, promoting Cork’s history
McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition 2010
McCarthy’s historical tours within the ward (Old Cork Blackrock & Passage Rail Line, Ballinlough History Trail)
Kieran’s Heritage Week activities, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=4003
Participation in Celebrating Cork’s Past Exhibition, September 2010
Participation in Culture Night, September 2010 at the Lifetime Lab, Cork
Enterprise grants for Cork City Enterprise Board workshops, http://kieranmccarthy.ie/wordpress/?p=4293
Creation of Ballinlough Enterprise Programme
Civic and History tours of Cork City Hall for primary, secondary, third level and the general public
Participation in first year local government debate in association with Department of Government, UCC
Involvement in an oral history project on Mahon with Frameworks Film
Kieran’s Community Events 2009:
-Walking tours down the old Cork Blackrock & Passage Rail Line
