Meals on Wheels is one of those services that encapsulates everything that is good in a community: Selfless acts and words of kindness. The small team of valuable volunteers who keep the Clonakilty show on the road provide not only nourishment, but social support to the elderly and vulnerable in […]
Life Less Ordinary
It’s been a tough ten months; January felt like it would never end and the finish line seems to be moving all the time. Our lives have literally been turned upside down: Children are out of school, parents out of work and rising Covid numbers have confined us back to […]
Kieran Doyle, a teacher at Clonakilty Community College, shares some of the many challenges facing teachers and students in the classroom since schools reopened under the new restrictions. He says that although the Levels affect the schools in the same way as the rest of society, there are still many […]
Sixteen-year-old Harold Paulino, a Fifth Year student at Clonakilty Community College, is trying to remain positive that Covid will be dealt with by Christmas next year. “Hopefully there is a vaccine by then,” he says optimistically. “I’m hoping that the virus won’t be a problem by the time I am […]
Ballinascarthy native and UL student Matthew Hurley plans on going to as many GAA matches as possible when life does return to some form of normality post-Covid. “What I’ve learned from Covid is that life is too short,” he says frankly. The 19-year-old sports enthusiast is in his first year […]
Teachers at St. Joseph’s Girls National School in Clonakilty share some of the highs and lows of ‘school in Covid times’ How has Covid impacted on the way you teach now? We have incorporated some online homework once a week since we returned to school – for example the children […]
