A new community café with trained volunteers ready to offer a listening ear will open on Bridge Street in Bantry early in the New Year. It will be a warm, safe space, open to all over-18’s where individuals may wish to just have a cuppa, make a connection, join a trained […]
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Following the death of her friend’s brother attempting to cross the border between Turkey and Greece, humanitarian aid worker and international law student Amy Boyden (26), from Bantry, is appealing for safe migration routes to be established in Europe. Amy was volunteering in the refugee camp on Lesvos in Greece […]
You might not have started thinking about Christmas just yet but watching supermarket aisles getting fuller with chocolate selection boxes, mince pies, and cinnamon-scented candles, I can’t help but feel a sense of dread as we move nearer to December. You may call me Grinch if you want – after […]
Back in August, I wrote about the beginnings of the Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-21, as well as the causes and the belligerents involved. It makes an interesting case study because it ran almost parallel to Ireland’s revolution war and civil war 1919-23, yet the two couldn’t be more […]
“That bomb was definitely placed there with a view to killing all in that band.”– James O’Neill On July 31, 1975, in County Down, five people were killed, including three members of the popular Miami Showband, in an attack in by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group. Despite the story of […]
For some, initial awareness of death happened when our first pet died. For others, it was finding a bird sprawled out in the garden or witnessing a lamb born still. (By the way, all good opportunities to begin conversations in a straightforward, honest way with young ones)… I didn’t have […]