Columnists - West Cork People

Don’t miss out on picking blackberries

Dr Rosari Kingston September, 2023

The act of picking blackberries is ingrained in the minds of most of us: We all have fond memories of carrying our buckets out into the fields and along the hedgerows to collect the luscious black fruit that hung from the brambles. It was usually sunny when we went on […]

Outside the box aubergines

Karen Austin September, 2023

Our garden is like a food bank, we are awash with produce. The harvest came early this year and we have been eating a month ahead of time. The heatwave in June encouraged everything along and even though we apparently had the wettest July on record it wasn’t cold and […]

Your ancestor was a sea squirt

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman September, 2023

Last month, in the article about marine plastic pollution, I mentioned animals called salps. Not everyone will know what a salp is. They belong to the Tunicata, a division of the Phylum Chordata – animals with spinal cords, which includes all the vertebrates, and us. The most familiar of the […]

Clochán Uisce: Stressed trout and a Shannonvale shout-out

WCP Staff September, 2023

The Clochán Uisce group has started to compile a list of the various species of bird, plant, insect, invertebrates and fish that are found in the river Feagle and its tributaries. The river Feagle has a small population of brown trout and on some rare occasions a couple of […]

Oppenheimer movie hit of the summer but what about Ireland’s atomic man?

Kieran Doyle September, 2023

I have a love-hate relationship with historical movies. If you’re into historical material, of course you’ll be enticed to go see one. But so many historical movies have led to misleading facts and wrongful portrayals, like the much-loved Micheal Collins movie; with its 1970s-style IRA car bombs going off in 1920s […]

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Natural supplements to aid sleep

Hannah Dare July, 2023

Sleeplessness is a horrible condition – nobody wants to be still awake and checking the clock at 4:45am! Now more than ever, we all recognise the importance of a good night’s restorative sleep in terms of our physical health, our mental health, our sanity and our ability to cope with […]

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