West Cork inventor Tim Rowe’s battery and pedal-powered vehicle ‘The Mott’ – a mix between a bicycle and a car – has just received CE marking, which means it can now be sold here and across Europe. The three-wheeler brightly-painted wooden electric vehicle, which is styled on a 1940’s open-top […]
Artist, buddhist, friend of show business, prehistory enthusiast: Keith Payne (82) wears many hats, but in later life has reached a point of realisation where, even in the face of death, religion has no part to play. Battling leukaemia for the past two years, the Schull resident, who helped set […]
As a self-confessed lifetime hippie and pacifist, Bill Chase has always embraced love, peace and nature. The only son of Irish Catholic parents, Bill reached his teenage years on the cusp of the counterculture of 1960s America, a period defined by the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement. He chose […]
Eckehard Krupp, or Ecki, as he is fondly known by in Beara, is one of many colourful characters who have moved to the peninsula over the years and now call it home. “A hat man” as he proudly describes himself – his other weakness is shirts – this flamboyant character […]
Food conservationist and educator Max Jones is on a mission to connect people to real food and the traditions behind it. Back in West Cork from the mountains of the Biellese in Italy where he led a group in a seasonal 24km trek with a herd of native cattle, Max […]
Situated between Bandon and Innishannon, the townland of Ballymountain North is, for the most part, made up of vast parcels of green and brown agricultural farmland. Travel the highroads and byroads for long enough however and you might just happen upon an oasis in the midst of this intensively farmed […]