Donna McCarthy and Paul O’Driscoll exchanged their own wedding vows within the 13th century walls of Baltimore’s Dún na Séad castle a week before the pandemic in March 2020 and have since started welcoming other brides and grooms to this medieval venue they are fortunate to call home. Interestingly, once […]
Have you ever been at a wedding where you saw a table in convulsions laughing and wondered “What’s going on there?” From getting ready to the ‘craic’ at a table, takeNplace Weddings is a West Cork-based photo service that enables guests to share their candid moments with the wedding couple […]
This month West Cork Branch Committee Member Jez Simms shares his experiences of a pelagic boat trip on August 13, organised by the Branch. Pelagic means living or occurring in the open sea. It was a glorious Sunday morning when members of Birdwatch Ireland set out on the Branch’s annual […]
By Karen O’ReillyEmployflex What skills do we need for the world we work in now, the world of work that has been completely turned on its head in the last two years and will, hopefully, never look and feel the same again? The internet blew up last week as people […]
There are many monuments commemorating events from the 1919-1923 period dotted along the N22. Midway between Macroom and Ballyvourney you will find two memorials at Carrigaphooca; a Celtic cross commemorating seven Free State soldiers who died in a mine explosion on September 15,1922 stands just feet away from a plaque […]
Last week a laden heavy goods truck swerved to miss a bus on the main access road (R600) in Kinsale. The truck collided with the wall and a lamp post at a pedestrian access to the steps across from Featherbed Lane where there is no pedestrian crossing. At the same […]