In 1989, Annie King, age 35, hopped on her bike after the breakdown of her marriage and, on a whim, caught the ferry from the UK to Ireland for a two week cycling holiday. It was the first time she had ever travelled anywhere on her own. This impulsive action, […]
When student couple Mike and Cathy Collard dropped out of Oxford University and travelled to West Cork to look for a house up a remote mountain between Glengarriff and Bantry, they were searching for a simpler life, as far away from the perils of nuclear power and American imperialism as […]
In April, Dingle resident Catherine Merrigan, 58, will pack her bag and travel across to Skellig Michael, the spectacular rock and UNESCO World Heritage Site, where she spends six months of every year as an island guide and warden to over 8,000 breeding puffins, which arrive there in the spring, […]
While fans of Jamie Oliver will be familiar with his catchphrase ‘wazzy wazzy woo woo’, in the past year says Mary O’Brien, it has crossed the Irish Sea and become more recognisable in West Cork for the decadent sweet offerings served up by local business ‘Wazzy Woo’, who has revolutionised […]
Fiach O Donoghue, (11), from Courtmacsherry, is one of a group of young people, whose call for action on biodiversity loss has been heeded by the government. One year after the inaugural Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, where a group of children and teenagers, aged between seven […]
Linda’s of Kinsale is a family-run jewellers that carefully curates collections of the best vintage and contemporary diamond jewellery. They also specialise in graded certified diamonds, rare coloured stones, old gold and signed designer pieces. Laura Jane Walsh shares how the business was born from her parent’s passion for antiques […]