Started as an activity for ‘Mothers and Others’ aged over 25 to try out Gaelic football, The Meela Moos of Kilnameela ladies football club in Ahiohill, has since morphed into an impressive initiative. Matthew Hurley meets Rosaleen O’Brien, one of the mothers behind the team that met on the school […]
When Kloë Wood steps outdoors, it’s usually never without a wicker basket hanging from her arm. The edible paradise that she and partner Adam Carveth, founders of Two Green Shoots, have created in the almost six years since they have been in Glengarriff, aptly named The Garden of Re-imagination, boasts […]
Since 1999 leading glasshouse supplier Peppermint Farm, based in West Cork, has been installing freestanding greenhouses, lean-to’s, conservatories and pavilions to customers nationwide. Originally started by Achim Hoffmann, on his retirement he passed the helm to another German living in West Cork, Hendrik Lepel, who took over the company with […]
Earlier this year West Cork woman Áine O’Donovan was elected to the role of PRO with the Irish Shorthorn Society. Tell us about yourself and your farm? I work locally as a Deputy Manager in a Community Pre-school while also farming with my father Seán. We have a small herd […]
Summer is well and truly here and there is no better place to enjoy it than Schull village. Whilst there, it is essential to visit Blue House Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery with the remit of promoting the best work being done in West Cork in painting, sculpture, printmaking […]
Gallery Asna, Clonakilty Arts Centre is delighted to announce its June exhibition, ’Re-Imagine’, the annual Member’s Exhibition from Cork Potters Society. It opens on June 3, with a reception from 5.30 to 7pm. to which all are invited. This year 14 Society members are exhibiting re-imagined work from their studios, […]