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The Argideen Estuary: why so green?

WCP Staff August, 2019

By Sorcha Ní Longphuirt If you walk along the Argideen Estuary on a summer’s day you will see, and quite possibly smell, the green seaweed bloom that covers the mudflats between April and November. These ‘green tides’, a common feature in the area for the last number of decades have […]

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Granny what did we ever do without plastic?

WCP Staff August, 2019

On Saturday, September 21, an event is planned in Skibbereen to help us learn a bit more about the most topical material at the moment for all the wrong reasons – plastic. A day of information and talks is currently being planned with more information to follow nearer the time. […]

Lifelong learning on Hairy Henry Care Farm in Ballylickey

WCP Staff August, 2019

When we think of education, what comes to our minds first is school, grinds, college, evening classes, distance learning – but we wouldn’t necessarily think of a farmyard as a place of learning for children and adults alike! Well, this makes Hairy Henry’s Care Farm a special place – a […]

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Magical tales at Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival

WCP Staff August, 2019

What do you get if you take several hundred people across nine miles of water to a small Island in the Atlantic Ocean? … you get a weekend of utter magic! Celebrating 25 years, Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival runs from Friday August 30 to Sunday September 1 and offers […]

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Who is Raif Badawi?

WCP Staff August, 2019

by Mary Grover, Clonakilty Amnesty Group Raif Badawi is 35 and Saudi Arabian. This does not make for easy reading but we hope that you continue. Since 2012 he has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in 2013, then resentenced […]

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Meet the makers of the ‘West Cork’ podcast at the inaugural Cork Podcast Festival

WCP Staff August, 2019

The inaugural Cork Podcast Festival, presented by The Good Room in association with Cork Opera House, has announced the first event of the festival programme: ‘West Cork Podcast’, live at Cork Opera House, Saturday, October 12, 2019. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered days before Christmas in 1996, her broken […]

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