Columnists - West Cork People

When the pudding becomes a pain in the chest

Dr Jeff Featherstone December, 2021

Over the next few months, I hope to cover those common symptoms, which we all know can mean something serious is going on and which, if missed, could represent a catastrophe. This month the topic is chest pain. You are just finishing your Christmas dinner and start to experience chest […]

A sustainable Christmas loaf

Karen Austin December, 2021

There is one indisputable fact in these uncertain times and that is that Christmas is coming . The decorations are going up in town and the Christmas tree has been installed. It’s a fine Christmas tree too, back to it’s pre Covid status and size which is most cheering. As […]

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Living off the land

Jean Perry December, 2021

With this series of articles I am lucky enough to be meeting and interviewing people who are not only committed to growing good quality nourishing food, but also selling it to us directly in our local markets. Seasonal produce with no food miles, grown in a sustainable way, not wrapped […]

A New Year’s pledge

Fiona Hayes December, 2021

It is “code red for humanity…The world is running out of time,” declared UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres at the start of COP26. But even as we all know this, still we wait! Forty-four years ago ExxonMobil senior scientist James Black told the fossil fuel executives that, “ Man has a […]

Winter in the garden

WCP Staff December, 2021

by Nicholas Mitchell I am writing this during the third week of November. Ordinarily, bird feeders would have been placed around the garden three weeks ago, but it has been such a mild autumn that this has not been necessary. The birds have been less in need of supplementary food during […]

COP26 or cop out?

Kieran Doyle December, 2021

In 1954, USA, the civil rights movement won a landmark case which ruled that the segregation (the deliberate and legal separation of the white and black races), of schools was unconstitutional. This landmark case, known as ‘Brown v Board’, would mean the dismantling of all segregated institutions from Mississippi to […]

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