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Making it Happen with Local Enterprise Week 2020

WCP Staff February, 2020

Local Enterprise Week 2020 ‘# Making it Happen’ runs from March 2 to 6. One of the highlight events for the week will take place on Friday, March 6, with International Women’s Day 2020 celebrated at the Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery. The event will include networking, as well as a […]

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Courtmac Community Shop welcomes EU delegation

WCP Staff February, 2020

An ageing population is a challenge faced by many global economies. Based on the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and European Commission figures, the number of those who are 65 and over is set to almost treble to 1.6 million people in the next 35 years in Ireland and, by 2060 […]

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Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat crew to be honoured with Gallantry award

WCP Staff February, 2020

Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat crew are to be honoured by the charity for a dramatic rescue of a fishing crew that took place in challenging conditions and resulted in the lives of six fishermen being saved. Coxswain Dean Hegarty is to be awarded a Bronze Medal for Gallantry by the Institution […]

A home with a view

WCP Staff February, 2020

Local couple Jason Fleming and Síle Burns talk to West Cork People about building their family home on a site on Jason’s family farm looking out over the stunning Dunworley Bay in Butlerstown. Síle works as a physiotherapist with the HSE in Skibbereen and Rosscarbery and Jason works as a […]

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Planting and growing mixed hedges

WCP Staff February, 2020

Before choosing a type of hedge, you must first look at why you want the hedge and what you need it to do. After that you need to look at practical considerations like site and soil. Mattie Keane of Future Forests – where mixed hedging has long been a speciality […]

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Cork organisations join new national climate action campaign

WCP Staff February, 2020

Cork Climate Action, Cork City and Fuinniv Independent Consulting, Rosscarbery and The Bike Circus, Clonakilty are among the Cork based organisations joining One Future, a new campaign group calling for faster and fairer climate action. Supporters of the campaign include Concern Worldwide, Christian Aid, The Union of Students in Ireland […]

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