A new film created by the residents of Skibbereen Community Hospital had its debut screening at Schull’s annual Fastnet Film Festival in May. Starting life as a song-writing project through Arts for Health Partnership Programme, ‘The Town That Has Nurtured My Dreams’ has become a celebration of Skibbereen, and the […]
‘Come West The Road With Me’, a whistle-stop reading tour around West Cork during June, is a homecoming of sorts for writer and documentary filmmaker Cónal Creedon. The 2024/25 season marks an especially meaningful period for the writer. After receiving multiple invitations to give readings across West Cork, he chose […]
Bantry’s renowned West Cork Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary with yet another stellar line-up of world-class musicians circling around a core of string quartets. In 1996, the first Festival presented thirteen concerts over a week and thirty years later, in 2025, this has grown to ten days and […]
Two-time world champion and passionate coach, Tony Stephenson, chats to Niamh Coughlan about his 20-year journey with the West Cork Kickboxing Club, sharing how “it’s not all about the medals”. Born in Manchester but raised in Bantry, Tony Stephenson’s early years were marked by a wide range of physical pursuits. […]
This month West Cork Branch committee members Fiona O’Neill and Damaris Lysaght share their ‘best bird experiences’. Fiona’s best experience in Ireland was In the winter of 2017/18. “During the autumn of 2017, small groups of Starlings began to meet up over farmland near Timoleague, before roosting for the night […]
This month the ‘Save Murragh Action Group’, a community group opposed to a sand and gravel quarry planned adjacent to the Bandon River, in Murragh, Enniskeane, looks at its local archaeology. It is interesting to consider who might have been the first peoples to inhabit this area and avail of […]