This month West Cork Branch committee members Fiona O’Neill and Damaris Lysaght share their ‘best bird experiences’. Fiona’s best experience in Ireland was In the winter of 2017/18. “During the autumn of 2017, small groups of Starlings began to meet up over farmland near Timoleague, before roosting for the night […]

In the second part of his article on the efficiency of design, Ruairi Kay focuses in on the gold standard for low energy building, Passivhaus. Passivhaus, or Passive House in English is a standard for low energy building that originated in Germany but is now recognised worldwide. The standard rewards […]

This month the ‘Save Murragh Action Group’, a community group opposed to a sand and gravel quarry planned adjacent to the Bandon River, in Murragh, Enniskeane, looks at its local archaeology. It is interesting to consider who might have been the first peoples to inhabit this area and avail of […]

Ian Wild, part of the Save Murragh Action Group, committed to protecting the Bandon River Valley, takes us on a walk alongside the Bandon River and reminds us of the bigger picture. I usually step out each morning for a walk by the Bandon River, just across from where a gravel […]

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