April has been a month focused on biodiversity, both with the launch of the Biodiversity Loss Report by the Citizens’ Assembly and with some recent trips across the vast constituency of Ireland South from Bray to the Blasket Islands. Having the ability to step out into nature this month and […]
Environment
After being awarded grant funding in excess of €180,000 by Bord Iascaigh Mhara through its Brexit Blue Economy Enterprise Scheme, Goleen Harbour, which offers an eco glamping or camping experience on the Mizen Peninsula, is now inviting private investment to raise the remainder of the match finance to develop Ireland’s […]
An historic beech tree, that may be up to 250-years-old, was temporarily saved from felling by the Kinsale community in February of this year. The tree is a prominent feature on Compass Hill, that once belonged to an ancient forest of which there are only a handful of survivors remaining. […]
Patsy’s Corner at Market Place in Kinsale has been awarded €14k in government funding for works to support it as a local heritage building. In total, 556 heritage projects in 31 local authorities across the country will benefit from a total of €4.5m under this year’s Built Heritage Investment Scheme – […]
Our rivers are more than a just part of the landscape they flow through. The life force along and within them make these entities themselves something to be cherished and much more can be done to improve their overall ecology. Over the past decade we have all become very aware […]
Committee Member Jez Simms tells us more about the extraordinary influx this March of a bird only occasionally seen in Ireland. At the time of writing, in the third week of March, an unprecedented ornithological event is taking place across Ireland (and the British Isles) with the largest ever influx […]