Cork Today

Tipping - is it becoming less voluntary? Advice ahead of the CAO deadline. The cost of congestion on our roads. Match & Catch - the Cork festival where you could meet the one. We talk movies with Mark Malone.

A formal state apology for people who suffered abuse in industrial schools - Fergus Finlay, Chair of the Christine Buckley Centre joins Patricia, concerned parents reach out to Parentline for advice on their kids’ social media use, Dyslexia Ireland on the extra time added to the state exams, Garda File and Dr Genie answers pet questions

Irish Independent Journalist Ralph Riegl on the disappearance of Conor and Sheila Dwyer 35 years ago, requests for SVP’s help exceed 260,000 for the first time, a new study showing that children in special and Deis schools are absent for more days than their peers, we look ahead to Tinnitus Awareness Week with Cork Deaf Association who will be running events from next Tuesday and gardening advice with Peter Dowdall

Adam Woods, Beef Editor with the Irish Farmers’ Journal on the bluetongue outbreak, the swimming club with no pool, Sage Advocacy on their invitation to survivors of institutional abuse to contact them for support, this week’s ‘Broadcast to Podcast, 100 years of Irish Radio’ conference in UCC and our show counsellor Joe Heffernan on the value of leisure time

We kick off Kindness Week 2026 with a discussion on the reality facing retail workers, Hairy Henry Care Farm’s free teen programme ’Giddy Up & Go’, the hot school meals programme, Macroom’s Aoife Lucey on her 10 for 10 half marathons raising funds for Childhood Cancer Ireland and Cobh-based Jenna Stromsoe on working with 100% plant based hair colour

Advice for family carers who have received letters from Revenue about possible tax implications, the Brush with Climate project - Kinsale hairdresser Fintan Lynch, MEPs vote to refer the Mercosur deal to the European Court of Justice, Oxfam's Resisting the Rule of the Rich report, Mark Malone shares his thoughts on Saipan and The Rip

Publicans driving customers home because of a lack of taxis, Gardai want park lighting in Carrigaline to curb anti-social behaviour in the town, the growing crisis in the number of older adults becoming homeless, construction starts on 18 new age-friendly social homes and a purpose-built home for people living with acquired brain injury in Macroom, pet advice with Dr Genie

A community meeting on water quality in the Blackwater River, Before We Die: a campaign by parents of adults with intellectual disabilities to secure their futures, the fallout from Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s shock statement, gardening advice with Peter Dowdall and more

MEP Billy Kelleher on his call for an end to gender inequality in healthcare, dangerous junctions on the N20, Eoghan Cleary - a researcher on AI child sexual abuse and adult undressing technology, Charlotte Cargin on her mission to get every ancient well in Ireland flowing again and 30 years of divorce in Ireland