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Detox with NAC

Hannah Dare January, 2026

As I’m writing this it’s a sparkling day outside, the sunshine is streaming in the window and it really feels like 2026 is off to a good start. Down here in Glengarriff we had a gorgeously dry, crispy Christmas – the photos I have from the Christmas Day Swim at […]

Kickstart your West Cork retrofit this New Year

Ruairi Kay January, 2026

Drat proofing windows. As the new year dawns, many of us are setting ambitious personal and professional goals for 2026. I know personally that if I achieve even half of mine, I’ll be doing well! Having said that, it’s also a great time to extend that ambition to our homes. […]

A beach in Kenya

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman January, 2026

With the weather here so frightfully cold, let me take you once again to the tropics. Last autumn, I stayed with a friend in Kenya, in a village beside the Indian Ocean. Long ago, this village was home to powerful Arab slave traders; their descendants still own much of the […]

Innovative carbon sequestration project offers opportunity to West Cork landowners

Fiona Hayes January, 2026

The Paris Agreement stated that we need to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Ireland is one of 195 countries who have ratified the agreement and pledged to reach net zero by 2050. To achieve this, the public in general, along with the corporate world […]

The potato in Ireland

Eugene Daly January, 2026

It is a historical fact that the potato, more than any other crop, dominated the farming system of Ireland in general, and of West Cork in particular, all through the 19th century and indeed well into the 20th. The early variety in those days was either the ‘Red Elephant’ or […]

Comparing Putin to Stalin

Kieran Doyle January, 2026

Defendants in the Moscow Show Trials of the 1930s. Within these past few weeks, Trump’s audacious attempt to broker a peace deal in Ukraine, if accepted, could result in a humiliating defeat for Ukraine and a justification that if a bigger country like Russia wants something, then they can go […]

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