Year: 2019

Green Skibbereen – a new beginning?

WCP Staff December, 2019

The Skibbereen Climate Action group met for the first time at the West Cork Hotel on November 20. Organised by Jim O’Donnell and Noel Casserley, the purpose of the meeting was to bring interested people together from across the local community and business to discuss how Skibbereen can become a […]

Hurleys at The Pike – 100 Years and more…

WCP Staff December, 2019

In 1910, Daniel and Hannah Hurley returned from America and bought the shop at The Pike for the sum of £50 – and so Hurleys at The Pike began. At the same time, a young Michael Collins was in London working for a stockbroker while studying law. His history, that […]

Christmas on the wards

WCP Staff December, 2019

With Christmas approaching, there’s a major push on to let hospital patients spend the holidays at home. The National Winter Plan 2019/2020 will aid this by providing additional supports and measures in order to address the usual winter surge in patients. Despite staff at CUH being worked off their feet […]

An afternoon at Fernhill House Hotel

WCP Staff December, 2019

Photo : The O’Neill family: Gearoid, Neil, Michael jnr, MJ, Teresa and Michael Snr.   “Do onto others as you would wish them to do to you.” More about these words later.  On a crisply cold and sunny afternoon, Brendan McCormack takes a short trip up to Fernhill House Hotel to […]

War : Twenty-Eight out of Thirty-One

Shane Daly December, 2019

“Many wounded men slipped into those shell holes and would have been drowned or suffocated by the clammy mud.” – George Pearkes The Battle of Passchendaele was fought on a 13km square patch of grass in Belgium in August 1917. It took place in a town called Ypres, or ‘Wipers’ […]

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