Columnists - West Cork People

Back to Heir Island in the fifties

Eugene Daly December, 2023

Heir Island in the early 1950s has left a store of memories in my mind, which I will never forget. There was no electricity, no running water; the people were poor in a monetary sense, yet there was richness in their lives. The only sounds were the sounds of nature […]

New rules for packaging waste

Grace O'Sullivan December, 2023

This month I was reminiscing with my friends over glass milk bottles and the little birds that would come and peck through the lid to get to the cream below. I couldn’t help but feel like, since then, we have been duped by the mass production of plastic and the […]

Penguins on thin ice

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman December, 2023

Climate change can have a devastating effect on animals that have spent thousands or millions of years adapting to a particular lifestyle. In Ireland, the weather is always changeable – an early spring might encourage birds to nest too soon, only for their chicks to be killed off by snow […]

A fast food in slow food

Karen Austin November, 2023

It’s without a doubt that we are in the soup and stew season. So much rain! We came home from Spain – 24 days without wearing a raincoat – which was glorious, and back to the rain and it’s hardly been off since. It didn’t take long to put the […]

Brent Goose – a winter visitor

WCP Staff November, 2023

This month, committee member and National Parks and Wildlife Ranger, Dave Rees writes about one of our winter visitors, the Brent Goose. One of the true sounds of the winter for me is the sound of a flock of Brent Geese quietly grazing on the edge of one of our […]

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Wet weather proves challenging for farmers

Tommy Moyles November, 2023

The clocks may have gone back an hour but in a lot of West Cork farmyards it feels like they’ve jumped forward by a month. Not just locally, but across the country, livestock have been housed earlier than usual because of the weather – the ground is saturated. For most […]

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