BROD will be hosting a Pride event at Emmet square in Clonakilty on Saturday, June 24 again this year. It is all of four years ago since the lst gathering, in 2019, and what a day it was shares Mark Holland. We had food and fun, music and dancing, sunshine […]
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‘Inanna Modern’, a new sub-division of Inanna Rare Books and Reader’s Garden in Skibbereen will hold its first art exhibition at Cnoc Buí in Unionhall from May 7 – 27. While visitors to Inanna’s beautiful location at Woodley House on Castletownshend Road are already familiar with their merchandise of historical […]
A lavaic splash of cadmium red diffuses into a tar-enamelled sky, a plume of pale aqua blue breathes up and fractalizes into islands seen from above, and deep blue penumbras bleed into white heads of thunder. This is ‘Archipelago,’ a new exhibition by West Cork painter, Michael McSwiney, who shows […]
Skibbereen’s Coombes family has become well-renowned in rugby circles in recent years. Gillian Coombes is a member of the successful Munster Women’s side that won all their matches in the Vodafone women’s interprovincial series for 2023. They beat Ulster (34-0), Leinster (26-17) and Connacht (50-24) to retain their title and […]


