Columnists - West Cork People

Case study: Vacant property upgrade and navigating the grant process

Ruairi Kay March, 2025

Following on from last month’s article on the vacant and derelict property grants, Ruairi Kay speaks with Paul Deane about his experience with the grant in upgrading his home in Clonakilty I first met Paul in May of 2024, when I completed a home energy assessment for him under the […]

Sea Shepherds and krill

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman March, 2025

There was a piece on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’ a few weeks ago by Hugh Wheldon, a young Irish volunteer with the environmental organisation Sea Shepherd. He was aboard the ship ‘Allankay’, in the Antarctic, and talked of icebergs and polar sunsets, Cape Horn and Drake’s Passage, orcas and […]

Trying to navigate our way through a technological and more polarised world

Kieran Doyle March, 2025

After Trump won the USA presidential election, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to allow my 2025 articles become dominated by his political journey. However, he unleashes so much global negativity on a daily basis, that’s its difficult to navigate from the political chaos he is causing internally and […]

Vague on your vagus nerve?

Lorraine Dufficey February, 2025

I’d really like to take a look at the vagus nerve in this article. It seems to be having a moment in all mind/body modalities and we hear the term bandied about frequently, but what exactly is it, why is it important and how best can we optimise its functioning […]

Feel the heat with charumuri

Karen Austin February, 2025

Travelling in India is always an adventure. So much traffic – buses, trucks, cars, tuk tuks and scooters all rushing everywhere like a crazy dance. It takes awhile to acclimatise and realise that as long as we take a calculated risk when crossing the road we won’t be run over. […]

Vacant and derelict property grants

Ruairi Kay February, 2025

As part of the government’s ‘Housing For All’ plan, in July 2022 the Vacant Property Refurbishment grant was launched, aiming to enable ordinary people to bring vacant properties back into use as homes. After a slow initial take up, the remit of the scheme was expanded and the grant increased […]

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