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“Pimp up your water” by making the ultimate hydration drink at home

Hannah Dare July, 2025

I’ve always been passionate about water – I love watching it, swimming in it, and I even completed my MA Thesis on the sociological effects of water privatisation around the globe. Who owns water rights is a huge issue – in many places, if you control the source of water […]

Adventuring down West Cork roads

WCP Staff July, 2025

The Wild Atlantic Way has been a great success. Every year thousands take to our lovely roads and boreens. But a word of caution for those heading out this summer. West Cork roads are sneaky. West Cork roads will bring you back exactly where you started from. A road can […]

Celebrating the vibrant flavour of basil

Karen Austin July, 2025

I obviously didn’t consider the basil when I was trying to reduce our vegetable growing this year, as we have a dozen healthy plants all growing like the clappers, enough for a small restaurant not a downsized family! The thing about basil, or any other herb, is that if you don’t […]

Admiring the beauty of the common mallard

WCP Staff July, 2025

This month, branch committee member Mark Loughrey lauds the mallard. There is an old Irish saying that goes: ‘An rud is annamh is iontach’. It means ‘what is seldom is wonderful’. This is certainly true in the bird world. The elusive penduline tit that was spotted in Macroom a few […]

Sprats in trouble

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman July, 2025

When I was young, I often sat alone by the beacon at Wood Point, looked out across Courtmacsherry Bay, and day-dreamed. The sea then seemed infinite and clean, unspoiled by Man. One day, I would sail away, over the horizon; (I never did). But now, if I can even find […]

Surnames of Co. Cork

Eugene Daly July, 2025

In his ‘Special Report on Surnames in Ireland’, Robert E. Matheson published a list of the 27 commonest surnames in Co. Cork, based on their incidence in the index of births for 1890. This is a great source of genealogy, as is Diarmuid Ó Murchadha’s authoritative ‘Family Names of County […]

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