Columnists - West Cork People

About the bowel

Dr Jeff Featherstone March, 2022

For those of you who are following my journey through the human body, the things that can go wrong and what to do about them, this month is all about bowel awareness. Or more accurately, the gastro-intestinal tract. First, a quick whistle-stop journey of the food you put in your […]

Crispy and delicious Kimchi pancakes

Karen Austin March, 2022

Three storms in a week left our garden in tatters. Lettercollum, ‘Leitir Colm’ in Irish, doesn’t translate to windy hillside for nothing! We had to use the chainsaw to cut our way out the morning after Eunice rocked by and any previous complacency that we had about the imminent arrival […]

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For the love of growing

Jean Perry March, 2022

Over the last couple of weeks West Cork has been battered by storms. For anyone who grows and depends on polytunnels to make a living, every gale is a cause of anxiety, but three in a week, well that’s exhausting. Growers need to be resilient and resourceful people and I […]

Global Warming or Global Wierding?

Fiona Hayes March, 2022

Walking with friends recently the subject Global Warming came up in conversation and one person commented that though he realised that countries like the Maldives were seriously threatened by sea level rise, he didn’t think that Global Warming affected us in Ireland at all. In reality the EPA reports that […]

Sandwich Terns signal the approach of summer

WCP Staff March, 2022

by Dave Rees For many people, the Swallow is the bird that represents the first sign of spring. But for Dave Rees, the bird he always looks out for is the Sandwich Tern. Once I see my first Sandwich Tern of the year, I know that the warmer days of […]

Positives of retrofitting

Grace O'Sullivan March, 2022

When news of the new Retrofitting scheme was announced by the government recently, I was probably one of the few Greens in the country who gave a sigh of mild irritation! Not, I hasten to add, because I have any issue with the scheme, quite the contrary in fact. I […]

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