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Gallery Asna: The Return of Analogue

WCP Staff January, 2022

Gallery Asna (the newly named Clonakilty Arts Centre gallery) is kicking off 12 months of exciting exhibition programming with two exhibitions of analogue photography in January and February. Local photographer Thady Trá will firstly be showcasing new work developed and printed in his Clonakilty Arts Centre studio. This will be […]

Health & Lifestyle

The essence of dog ownership

WCP Staff January, 2022

A part from teaching your dog the basic commands, there are some other methods to deepen the bond with your canine companion. Many people complain to me that their dog doesn’t listen to them. That’s usually a correct assumption because you need to train your dog to focus on you. […]

Eat well to beat burnout

WCP Staff January, 2022

Cases of burnout spike in January after going back to work, but there are things you can do to help yourself avoid it. You know that exercising is good for releasing stress, but have you ever thought about how your food could help you with how you feel? asks Health […]

The many health benefits of honey

WCP Staff January, 2022

Ballyhooly native Andrew Shinnick, with his brother John, is a third generation beekeeper. When they’re not beekeeping, Andrew is a senior Army Officer and John, a full-time dairy farmer. Together the brothers run the award-winning Blackwater Honey. Andrew is also on the board of directors of the Irish Beekeepers Association […]

‘Following the rooks’ in West Cork

WCP Staff January, 2022

by Nicholas Mitchell ‘The rook and jackdaw are too well known to need any introduction in themselves, as one need not go far from the centre of the city before seeing one or both species. On the principle that familiarity breeds contempt, it is perhaps their very abundance which accounts […]

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Dracula is actually Irish

WCP Staff January, 2022

“One house would be attacked and the next spared, there was no telling who would go next and when someone said goodbye to a friend, he said it as if forever. In a few days the town became like a city of the dead. The great county infirmary hospital was […]

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