Dr Pat Bracken is currently working as a consultant for the Department of Mental Health at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, researching and writing an international guide to good services and practices across the world. The consultant psychiatrist, who was Clinical Director of West Cork Mental Health Service from […]
Bantry Inshore Search and Rescue association was set up in 1987 after a local drowning tragedy. The community rescue boat gets between eight and 12 call outs per annum. The Community Rescue Boats Ireland (CRBI) is a nationwide group of independent voluntary rescue boats, which are trained and administrated by […]
Winners of the West Cork Garda Youth Awards were announced at a ceremony held at the Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery on November 8. The Awards are in association with SuperValu. Chief Superintendent Con Cadogan, Divisional Officer for Cork West Division, paid tribute to the winners, saying that it was […]
If you don’t have the time to travel the coast of our Wild Atlantic Way or visit our long lost Nordic cousins in the North, there’s a new shop in Clonakilty that brings the visions and imaginations of our shores and beyond to Clonakilty. Opened this summer, Wild Atlantic Designs […]
Neon Surf, a collection of stories by West Cork writer Jack Kelleher, will be launched on November 14 at 5pm in Molly’s Café, Clonakilty. Artist James Waller, whose illustrations accompany Jack’s stories, will be on hand with Jack to display his work and explain the techniques he used in its […]
Yorkshire native Hayley Milthorpe set up her business The Cultured Food Company in West Cork in 2014 after realising there was a gap in the market in Ireland for live fermented foods, which support and enhance digestion. She launched a range of raw unpasteurised sauerkrauts. After qualifying as a nutritional […]