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Climate and environmental emergency declared at EU

Grace O'Sullivan December, 2019

Grounded – An Occasional Column by Grace O’Sullivan MEP Once a month, the members of the European Parliament up sticks from their usual base in Brussels, and travel down to Strasbourg in France. Strasbourg is where the monthly plenary sessions take place. That’s where the entire Parliament, including us 11 […]

Farming : A rollercoaster of a year behind us

Tommy Moyles December, 2019

In Billy Joel’s 1989 hit ‘We didn’t start the fire’ he chronicles the 40 years between 1949 and 1989 simply by stitching a series of headlines from the period together. Listening to it, hearing the words sets off images of the story behind each headline and leads to a bit […]

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War : Twenty-Eight out of Thirty-One

Shane Daly December, 2019

“Many wounded men slipped into those shell holes and would have been drowned or suffocated by the clammy mud.” – George Pearkes The Battle of Passchendaele was fought on a 13km square patch of grass in Belgium in August 1917. It took place in a town called Ypres, or ‘Wipers’ […]

When music makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up

Gary Hannon November, 2019

Traditional guitarist, Jim Murray has toured the world many times over – with Sharon Shannon, amongst others – but he loves West Cork more than ever. Gary catches up with him in his local, The Mountain House in Ardfield. WCP: “How would you describe your musical upbringing?” JM: “My dad […]

Masking – your skincare quick fix!

Sherna Malone November, 2019

When it comes to skincare, we all love instant results, not small changes that can take a while to become noticeable. Unfortunately, skincare doesn’t work quite like that and it’s not unusual to wait two skin cycles (each cycle is four to six weeks) to see the benefits of your […]

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Antibiotics and the aftermath

Hannah Dare November, 2019

Everyone is now aware of the dangers of the systematic overuse of antibiotics in human and animal health. Microbes have a very short lifecycle and thus can evolve rapidly. We are seeing the rise of ‘super-bugs’ that are resistant to antibiotics. This is because microbes are exposed to antibiotics in […]

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