Columnists - West Cork People

Oil pulling and oral hygiene

Hannah Dare April, 2023

Recently, I had a customer looking for a particular organic Portuguese Extra Virgin olive oil. He wanted it in particular because of its flavour, but not for cooking – he wanted it for oil pulling. He said you can really tell the quality of the oil you use when you […]

Nuts about carrots

Karen Austin April, 2023

Looking out of the glasshouse the other day, thinking about which recipe I could write this month, it came to me how much tastier our lives would be if everyone could grow their own salad and herbs. I know this may sound problematic for people that live in small spaces […]

Easter customs

Eugene Daly April, 2023

Easter Sunday may fall on any date between March 22 and April 21 with a wealth of lore and customs attached to Holy Week. People in all parts of Ireland held to the pious belief, common in many parts of Europe, that on its rising on Easter Sunday morning, the […]

History & Politics

Roald Dahl, Enoch Burke and the Irish Constitution

Kieran Doyle April, 2023

We all know Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase, ‘You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time’. I think this article is going to test this […]

Spring on the farm

Tommy Moyles March, 2023

Calving season is well under way on dairy farms in West Cork and due to the good weather there is a good share of cattle out by day at least. The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a sharp rise in input prices in particular for fertiliser and fuel and to […]

How to sleep better

Hannah Dare March, 2023

As I get older, the topic of how we sleep, how little we sleep, and how tired we are seems to be coming up more and more in casual conversation with friends. Waking shortly after going to sleep and not being able to get back to sleep again; or simply […]

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