“One hundred years is too short,” says fisherman Pat Murphy with a smile. Just three years shy of this great age, Pat, (97), has landed too many catches to count in his lifetime. Most of those years have been shared with his greatest catch of all, the love of his […]

A new feature documentary, ‘Theocracy, the Emigrant’s Artist’, capturing the life and work of the London-based Irish artist Bernard Canavan – known globally as The Emigrant’s Artist because of his paintings of the Irish Diaspora – will premiere at this year’s Cork International Film Festival in November. Directed by renowned […]

With firsthand experience of the devastating effects of addiction, Recovery Coach addiction specialist Adrian Linehan recently took a stand with the people of Bandon against plans for a new gaming arcade in the town. The protest was a success. The director of the casino company listened to the concerns of […]

If “Boldness be my friend” then Swedish native and blow-in to West Cork, Katarina Runske, 60, will surely never be lonely. One of West Cork’s most enduring entrepreneurs, who moved to Durrus from Stockholm as a young, single mother in 1989, Katarina has certainly never been shy of taking a […]

In the eighties and nineties word spread in rural West Cork about a friendly Dutch doctor who gave time to his patients and even served up apple tart in the waiting room. Not only that, the tiny white pills he prescribed at the end of a session seemed to cure […]