Cork City Cares

Cork City Late Night Transport

A Cork City Centre late night Marshalled Taxi Rank has just been launched.

The Marshalled Taxi Rank, a Cork City Cares initiative, now operates on Friday and Saturday nights between Midnight and 3.00 a.m. on St. Patrick Street (beside Brown Thomas); this new city centre Marshalled Taxi Rank provides a monitored and serviced taxi rank for the security and comfort of Cork city centre night-time patrons.

The Rank is marshalled by security staff and monitored by An Garda Síochána via the city centre CCTV and Garda personnel. Patrons are invited to queue in an orderly manner and marshals on the rank are in contact with city taxi companies to call more taxis when needed to the rank.

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The Marshalled Taxi Rank is designed to create a focal point for customers of taxi availability in the city centre; the marshalling and monitoring of the rank is a re-assurance to both customers and taxi drivers that prospective passengers are in a fit state to be transported, encouraging more taxis into the city centre in the early hours of Friday and Saturday mornings.

Marshalled Taxi Rank, Cork City Ireland

The Cork city centre Marshalled Taxi Rank has received funding from Cork City Council and has been developed by Cork City Cares, a Cork Marketing Partnership initiative that aims to engage and involve a social partnership with all the players and stakeholders in Cork City Centre night time operations.

The aim of Cork City Cares is to encourage delivery to the City's citizens and visitors a quality night-time offering within a safe, well-serviced and attractive environment, whilst re-invigorating and supporting a sense of pride in Cork and fostering individual responsibility.

Cork City Cares is spearheaded by Cork City Council, An Garda Síochána, HSE, Publicans and Night Club Owners, Heineken Ireland and Cork Marketing Partnership.

Working with the key stakeholders, and particularly Cork City Centre publicans, Cork City Cares has also developed a responsible trading programme and Code of Good Practice for City Centre Clubs, Pubs, Off-licences and Latenight Retailing.

Cork City Cares - Aims

engage and involve a social partnership with all players and stakeholders in city-centre night-time operations
drive, monitor and acknowledge responsible trading/serving and good practices across all commercial activities in the city centre at night; licenced premises, off-licences, dance and music venues, retail outlets, transport providers, etc.
work with health professionals, schools, colleges and youth organisations to develop and promote strong communications strategies and public messaging programmes that urge and support responsible behaviour: local safe clubbing campaigns, local get home safe campaigns, local designated driver campaigns, etc.
establish new social norms for how Cork society socialises
deliver to the City’s citizens and visitors a quality night-time offering within a safe, well-serviced and attractive environment
re-invigorate and support a sense of pride in the Cork City , fostering individual responsibility and respect
generate a safe, attractive and vibrant environment that stimulates economic growth and inward investment
provide a template to inform development of safe city projects in other Irish towns and cities

Cork City Cares - Objectives

Reduce alcohol-related crime in Cork City Centre
Reduce A&E alcohol-related admissions from Cork City Centre
Implement a communications strategy that underpins new social norms of recreation, especially in the 15-24 age group
Integrate Cork City Cares objectives into a wider framework of the Cork region; existing family, community and school support organisations
Deliver a project template that can be adapted for other districts, towns and cities
Deliver a range of transport options to facilitate the dispersal of large numbers of people from City Centre streets in the early hours of the morning
Improve City Centre facilities to enable and enhance better access and egress, management and control; public lighting, transport, public toilets, etc.
Reposition the City Centre as the cultural and social hub of Cork, reflecting the identity of the region and its people, thereby increasing public confidence and expectations in the capacity of Cork City Centre to serve public recreational and security needs in night-time hours
Increase confidence for investment in the inner city – regeneration and diversity of the night-time offering

Smart Move for Off-Licence Retailers!

Free training for off-licence staff around responsible service is now available from the Health Service Executive (HSE) South.

The FREE one day training programme, Club Cork Smart Serve, has been developed specifically for those working in the off-licence trade.

Co-ordinated by the HSE South's Health Promotion Department in partnership with the An Garda Síochána and security personnel, the course, which is funded by the Cork Local Drugs Task Force, aims to equip off-licence retailers with the skills to aid them in alcohol-related situations that they can face in their line of business.

The training has been piloted with more than 45 off-licence retailers and feedback has been very positive with participants enjoying the interactive and practical nature of the course.

The training course is free to staff working in off licenses.

"Participants are invited to discuss issues and take part in a role-play situation to see how they would manage certain situations," says Sharon McGillycuddy, Health Promotion Officer (HSE South) and Co-ordinator of the Programme.

Jane Lee, Carry Out HR Manager, Galvins Carry Out Off Licence, said " A recent evaluation showed that participants felt their knowledge had increased as a result of the training, that it was of benefit in terms of their working environment and they further expressed an interest in partaking in future training.