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Shaping the vision of Clonakilty’s Kent Street revival

James Waller April, 2025

Something remarkable is happening in Clonakilty writes James Waller: over the last two weeks 19 individuals, some of them representing over half a dozen key organisations, have come together to form the Clonakilty Cultural Centre Action Group (CCCAG). Comprised of strategic planners, community workers, artists, arts and home educators, arts […]

The efficiency of simplicity

Ruairi Kay April, 2025

This month we are focusing more on new build, looking into the efficiency of house design and how this can influence our energy use. If you are thinking about building a new home from scratch, it’s not just the insulation and heating system specification that will dictate how much energy […]

Joyful sighting of the Chilean Torrent Duck

WCP Staff April, 2025

This month West Cork Branch committee member Nicholas Mitchell shares his “best bird experience”, a feature that will continue in this column during the months ahead. This is about a bird that I encountered, or more correctly a pair of birds, that were so special they had my wife Karen […]

To be a man

Leo Muckley March, 2025

“Man up”; “You’re the man of the house now”; “Big boys don’t cry”; “Be a good little man”; “Don’t be a wimp”: These are some of the more print-friendly phrases a male may come up against in the home, school and workplace throughout their lifetime. These are also only a […]

Expert tips to bring your garden into Spring

Noah Chase March, 2025

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 […]

Sea Shepherds and krill

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman March, 2025

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 […]

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