As we approach another gardening season, Noah Chase of Deelish Garden Centre in Skibbereen addresses some commonly asked questions by visitors to his garden centre. Do you have British Queen seed potatoes? Up until a few weeks ago, we were being asked this daily, and the answer is ‘yes’, along […]
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There was a piece on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’ a few weeks ago by Hugh Wheldon, a young Irish volunteer with the environmental organisation Sea Shepherd. He was aboard the ship ‘Allankay’, in the Antarctic, and talked of icebergs and polar sunsets, Cape Horn and Drake’s Passage, orcas and […]
After Trump won the USA presidential election, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to allow my 2025 articles become dominated by his political journey. However, he unleashes so much global negativity on a daily basis, that’s its difficult to navigate from the political chaos he is causing internally and […]
In 1998, Judy Singer, a sociologist, coined the term ‘neurodiversity’, a combination of the words neurological and diversity, and since then it has become a movement, which works towards inclusion, equality and social change. More recently, it is taken that neurodiversity simply refers to the spectrum of neurological diversity of […]
I’d really like to take a look at the vagus nerve in this article. It seems to be having a moment in all mind/body modalities and we hear the term bandied about frequently, but what exactly is it, why is it important and how best can we optimise its functioning […]
Pat and Ann Marie Kiely are bringing their celebrated culinary expertise back to Bantry with the opening of Wild Garlic at Fadó on February 12. The award-winning husband-and-wife team, known for their fine dining restaurant, O’Connor’s in Bantry (until 2019) – a recommended listing in the reputed Michelin Guide for […]